Biomedical Engineering Graduates: Job Market in Poland, Electrical to Biomed Transition

Student IB wrote:

I hate these studies. It's hard to work after them and it's best to change your industry after finishing them. Instead of biomedical, I would suggest mechatronics.

Student IB wrote:

Poznan University of Technology, but I'm already a graduate. I had to change the industry to a more generally engineering one, and in general I recommend it to everyone after these studies.

Student IB wrote:

This is a difficult topic in general in Poland. It's hard to find a good job and even harder to find a well-paid one. Therefore, it is definitely worth specializing in some field, doing courses, postgraduate studies, etc. CV enhancers.

Marek_Skalski wrote:

In Wrocław, an IB graduate has the following options:
- Work at a dialysis station where it's easy to get sick.
- Work at an optician and make lenses for glasses.
- Work in a hospital as a local maintenance man of medical equipment who will always be scolded by those from the service.
- Work in a manufacturer's workshop, but then you spend a lot of time behind the wheel and on the phone.
- Stay at Wrocław University of Science and Technology to do a PhD, and then these options are higher, or maybe you'll get a chance to join a team dealing with something more ambitious, but that's outside the country. But if you want to stay at the university and live as a student for the next 10 years, it might be an interesting option.
In real life, a degree in Biomedical Engineering has little value. If not, then maybe someone will be proud of what he does. I have/had friends after IB and they all reconfigured.

Student IB wrote:

There are a bit more options, at least in Poznań. After this major, you can work in biomedical options, e.g. In:
- a prosthetic laboratory (where they make casts of stumps and prepare simple prosthetic limbs for the fund)
- dental laboratory
- factory of surgical instruments
- service of medical imaging devices
- factory of medical electronics or other medical devices
- a medical IT company

Student IB wrote:

I'd go for mechatronics if I were you. You will always be able to specialize in biomedical engineering (with us, this major comes from the mechatronics specialization) and at the same time you will gain much more knowledge in engineering and will be able to work, for example, as a constructor if you like machine design. Most likely, you will also have classes in biomedical topics (e.g. biomechanics, biomaterials) in your mechatronics studies.

rashid5 wrote:

Unfortunately, the market in Poland is quite shallow. I was finishing IB, a person close to me (eng. in PL, MA in DE), who stayed in the profession and works in the R&D department at one of the largest producers of cochlear implants.

For some time I was designing front-ends (amplifiers and stimulators) of medical devices (broadly understood neurology). The projects themselves are very interesting and demanding, but due to the incredible degree of regulation, they drag on in time and in the amount of documentation produced, so the work is rather not the most dynamic (which is of course not a disadvantage, especially from the point of view of "end recipients" ). Mainly for this reason, a few years ago I drifted in a different direction (designing high-frequency integrated circuits).