A couple of months ago, I was discussing the field of bioengineering with an older woman at a restaurant. She took one look at me and asked why a girl would go to the University of Pennsylvania to learn the skills to become a farmer!
While I obviously do not know absolutely everything about being a bioengineer, I am aware that they are not farmers, nor do I have a desire in becoming a farmer.
Personally, when I hear the word “bioengineering”, I think of remarkably intelligent people tinkering away trying to improve medical technologies and devising new materials and strategies to further improve medicine. I think bioengineers carry a double-edge challenge, one side containing the ability to make technological advances with materials, while their other side must understand how those materials interact with the physics, chemistry, anatomy and biology of the human body.
Bioengineers know the human body inside out, but also know how to think technically. These engineers are the momentum in the medical world, as they are the people who control what is created and whether or not it is safe to use in a human being.
To answer the question of the blog, bioengineers are not farmers in the agricultural sense, but are constantly "growing" new innovations while "fertilizing" the future of medicine with their expertise.
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