Lehigh’s Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)

• Professional development: Understand the possible application of a biomedical engineering degree and what that could look like after one’s time at Lehigh. Provide club members with the opportunity to gain new skills through continuing education and career training to positively impact career pursuits.
• Volunteering: Gain practical experience with networking, communication skills, marketing, and the confidence to build stronger partnerships with the surrounding Bethlehem community and Lehigh University BMES. Allowing members to bond and get involved outside the organization can have positive benefits that leak back toward your club.
• Social: The BMES club works to foster a sense of community among not only fellow bioengineering undergraduates, but professors, graduate students, and outside professionals as well. This makes for a supportive and connected environment where students collaborate to take action towards a shared co-designed future.

In Fall 2023 and Fall 2024 BMES held an alumni panel event in which various Bioengineering alumni spoke about their post-grad experience and offered advice to current undergraduates.

There were a variety of alumni from a wide variety of fields, including research & development, prosthetic device design, engineering management and manufacturing. This event was extremely successful, as students had the chance to ask a wide variety of questions about internship and job hunting, as well as the bioengineering field in general.

Alumni offered helpful advice regarding what to prioritize as an undergraduate to determine what job field is best suited for them.

• Took 10 members of BMES to the Boys and Girls Club of Bethlehem for volunteering
• Worked on a fun scientific activity with the kids there: making slime
• Went through step by step of making the slime with them, helping the kids to develop an intellectual curiosity for science and engineering
• Collaborated with the Scientific Journal Club to make this volunteering possible

• Several BMES members received an orientation in basic electronic use including components such as breadboards, resistors, and capacitors. Members also learned how to model circuits on TinkerCad.

• Learned fundamentals of circuit design, both in computational model and physical components