Twitter and What I Found There

Bio-medical engineering is a fast growing field. From cochlear implants to innovative socks, BME provides gateways to a better life.

The most common topic “tweeted” about is meetings going on all over the nation. These conferences bring together various BME companies to discuss new and innovative technologies. Much of the discussion explains what is happening at the conferences and attempts to get other bio-med students together.

Another common topic are the new technologies that people/companies are researching/ developing. For instance, AFHU is a university that posted a link and picture of their socks that help diabetes. Other tweets include individuals discussing their person progress in bio-medical engineering.

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The most interesting stories I found on Twitter posts/stories can be found here and here. First off, the rat. Researchers have literally found out to grow sensory organs on any place of the body. This may seem repulsive at first, but you must consider the possibilities. What if we could find out how to grow back ears on humans who had them blown off in war? Or perhaps grow the forearm back of someone who once lost it?

The next interesting post/page/discussion was from the little boy named Tanishq. He made a post about how he wanted to become a doctor but he loved bioengineering. At first glance I thought he was a grown up who had a kid as his picture (much like myself) but then I read his bio and realized that that was him. He graduated college at age 11 and has done TED talk shows. This was so impressive because he is so young and he is already thinking about the degree I am currently pursuing.

A lot of the individuals are very prideful of BME. They enjoy boasting about their achievements and what they are planning on researching. A good majority of the posts were very articulate and professional (as expected). Some of them seemed slightly pretentious, although this seems to be the case in most engineering fields.

I knew that they would generally be discussing new bio-technologies and the articles that are associated with them. I, however, did not consider the possibility of conferences that would be going on. This topic accumulated a lot of discussion and “invites”.

Another topic I failed to consider was the networking possibilities. Many of the people who went to these conventions attempted to connect with other bio-medical engineers.