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Professional Organizations
Professional organizations and associations provide a wide range of resources
for planning and navigating a career in Bioengineering. These groups can
play a key role in your development and keep you abreast of what is
happening in your industry. Associations promote the interests of their
members and provide a network of contacts that can help you find jobs and
move your career forward. They can offer a variety of services including
job referral services, continuing education courses, insurance, travel
benefits, periodicals, and meeting and conference opportunities. The following
is a partial list of professional associations serving biological engineers
and employers. A broader list of professional associations is also
available by clicking here.
 American Institute of Medical and Biological
Engineering
American Society of Agricultural and Biological
Engineers
ASME, Bioengineering Division
Biomedical Engineering Society
Danish Society for Biomedical
Engineering
European Society for Engineering in Medicine
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
IEEE Engineering in Medicine
and Biology Society
Institute of Biological Engineering
Institute of Biomedical Science
International Federation for Medical & Biological
Engineering
International Society for Bioengineering and the Skin
Society for Biological Engineering (AIChE Technological
Community)
The Canadian Medical & Biological
Engineering Society
The Merck Genome Research Institute
The Society for Biological Engineering
Whitaker Foundation
Note: Some resources in this section are provided by the US
Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor
Statistics and the Whitaker
Foundation.
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