Career Outlook

Roles & Responsibilities:

As a Biomedical Equipment Technology graduate, you can expect to be challenged by modern medicine and technical advances daily! The program prepares graduates to work with equipment found in hospitals, medical centers, clinics and physician's offices. Graduates' job responsibilities may include calibrating equipment and quality assurance; performing preventive and corrective maintenance; training staff to properly and safely operate equipment; documenting repair and service; selecting and installing equipment; serving on safety committees; promoting facility-wide safe equipment use; monitoring work performed by outside vendors; and handling purchasing requisitions and inventory maintenance.

BET graduates hold job titles such as biomedical equipment technician-BMET, biomedical electronics technician, biomedical engineering technician, biomedical technician, field service engineer or representative. Graduates also work in related fields as technical service sales representatives, medical equipment sales reps or technical specialists.