Conference Session

Biomedical Engineers and Professional Development - June 23rd

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Emmett Jacob Springer; Aileen Huang-Saad, University of Michigan

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical Engineering

toexpect from biomedical engineers. Thus, engineering positions in healthcare which are, intheory, well-suited for biomedical engineers, are instead filled with engineers trained in moretraditional disciplines such as mechanical or electrical engineering [6]. In an effort to better understand these historically fundamental BME challenges, this paperseeks to explore BME identity. Identity, both personal and social, has been shown to play a rolein educational persistence and career decisions. Some studies have examined social identityfactors for representation and persistence in engineering but few, if any, have analyzedprofessional identity of biomedical engineers. Additionally, little has been done to analyze theeffect that social identity