Female Biomedical Engineer

Can someone say that you cannot do this? Do you believe those people? Won’t you feel like you have to do that and tell them “I am doing”?

Yes! That’s what I did.

“Being a Biomedical Engineer is not just easy. You have to travel intensively, have to complete your work irrespective of time. You have to be ready all the time to reach the customer. You have to face awkward situations when you cannot repair the machine. And you have to lift heavy machines and their accessories, your hands will get hurt, you may get tanned, your nails may get damaged, cannot dress like a regular Woman. So being an engineer is difficult for women”. This is what they told once to me when I am in college.

Because of this, most of the girls in my college fled towards Software companies and after one or two years they quit and got married.

The number of girls Joining Biomedical Engineering Degree is more than thrice that of Men. But later completing the degree, the number of women working in the Biomedical engineering field is just only around five percent or even less than that.

After entering this Industry I came to know many Engineers in the Biomedical industry. Those engineers are not actually biomedical engineers. They are from different backgrounds like Electrical, Electronics, mechanical, and even from the Diploma. They are entering this industry without any basic knowledge about life science and only they sustain.

My dream was to become a top woman Entrepreneur in India but later my graduation I wanted to be an inspiration for upcoming biomedical engineers especially women. So sustained till now in this role as service engineer where I am lifting heavy machines which are making me stronger physically, facing an awkward situation when I fail to finish my work which makes me accept, analyze and correct my mistakes, I cannot dress and groom like woman, which reduces my expenses on buying cosmetics and dresses, I am getting tanned, my hands and nails are getting hurt which makes some men admire me, I am traveling alone which gives me “only me time” to build myself and take care of myself.

Doing all this now I am fed up with my budding Biomedical Engineers who always used to ask me about my salary.

Yes! I am paid less. But it is ok for me because I am satisfied.

Whoever graduated with a life science subject should always be ready to do service for lives as doctors do. Only doctors cannot save a life, they need equipment, tool, and medicine to do their service. Biomedical engineers are not just engineers like software engineers; they are supposed to do their duty at any cost.