What are /r/bioengineering's favorite Products & Services?

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Most jobs will just call it biomaterials. It's still flegeling at best though, can be hard to break through. Since it is so flegling it also means what jobs are looking for is going to adjust a lot and be hard to search for. Here is one i found today.

It all depends on what you want to do. With an ABE undergrad you could get into a variety of different fields; algae research, biosensors, controlled environment agriculture, water resources engineering, food safety, microbial detection, the list could go on. As a junior you should be ready to take some electives in your final 2 years. Are there any courses/specialization tracks in your program that really interest you?

Other than this, there are 2 pieces of information I try to pass on to current undergrads/recent graduates. The first that is most pertinent to you, is to try and get a summer internship or internship for credit with an engineering/biotech company before you graduate. Industrial experience will give you a significant edge over other candidates when it comes time to interview. Secondly, networking is an ongoing process, and as a junior you are in a perfect position to start meeting people in industry, going to seminars, job fairs, and building your network. That way when it comes time to look for a job in 1-2 years, you have contacts that can help you.

Also even though the job market is recovering, it's still tough and there seems to be a bit of market saturation for engineers. Once you identify the types of companies that you may want to work for, take a look at their current job listings and see what they list for qualifications. If there is some qualification that consistently keeps popping up for all the job listings, see if you can take an elective course through your university to learn that skill, or try to learn yourself. For instance, if you need to know about programming (more in depth than what you learn in ABE), you can learn on http://www.codecademy.com/, start to learn a new language on http://www.duolingo.com, anything to help beef up your application. Good luck!

FreeCAD is generally considered the most established open-source SolidWorks alternative (https://www.freecadweb.org/). A quick google will bring up lists of other open source or cheap alternatives. Naturally, it's going to be less polished than SolidWorks and you may need to dig through extensions if you want specific functionality, but such is life in open-source world. I can't speak to neuroengineering specifically because it really depends on what sort of technology you plan to work with.

Here's one link that may help.

If you search the Indeed or Monster job boards for job titles like Biomedical Technician or Field Service Technician, you should be able to find a fair number of these positions. Here's one, for example. Looking at the necessary qualifications for these positions should give you a good idea of what you need to do.

http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=medical+device+sales&l=united+states

http://www.simplyhired.com/search?q=medical+device+sales&l=Minnesota&mi=25

Whatever you search, you'll tend to find sales jobs even if you think you keyword them out. If you get an internship under your belt at a company somewhere, I'm guessing when you graduate you could get your choice of company/products you want to work in. As others have said if you have the technical knowledge for clinicians/educated buyers AND you've got the people skills to sell you'll be in high demand. Look at your classmates, engineers aren't all stereotypes but there's still plenty of reason for the ones that exist.

Try to get a laptop with an nvidia quadro graphics card if you're going to be doing a lot of CAD and have the money for it. Here's the list of supported graphics cards/drivers for solidworks and solidedge. Don't try running CAD on a mac using parallels like the other person mentioned it's just asking for trouble. If you're not trying to pony up for a fancy quadro graphics card make sure you get a computer with an NVIDIA graphics card and a decent amount of VRAM. Stay away from AMD graphics cards, they're fine for gaming but there's no support for other 3rd party applications. And like Jonathan recommended thinkpads are great. No unnecessary frills and really good bang for your buck

A 3D printed or plastic model is probably good for the vertebrae. There's a lot of services where you can send them a file and they'll print the part for you.

For the disks I'd suggest something like a stress ball. Probably a style like these with the goo. https://www.amazon.com/Bingole-Randomly-Squishy-Squeeze-Pressure/dp/B01KQOE442/ Alternatively, you could use silly putty, if you could stuff it inside a water balloon or something similar.

Edit: I'm assuming you're looking for a demonstration for patients or students, not a functional model for research. If you need the latter, you need to go to someone more professional.