i don't know if anyone is aware but there is a fuel cell company, Lynntech, located in TAMUs research valley park, that has a job opening for a technology development research technician.

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Lynntech is a research and technology development company with a twenty year history of successful innovation. We are a recognized leader in transitioning science and engineering into practical solutions. Innovations in energy, water, and health form the basis of our diverse patent portfolio.

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yes i realize some of you BIMS people do not like the research but i feel that this your ticket into project management--more of the business side than technical. everyone has to pay their dues. plus its good experience for a project manager to understand how its research team operates. reading this thread just made me depressed for a lot of you because BIMS people have so many future opportunities.

i do a lot of research in technology transfer and quite a few job positions that i come across require a BIMS/BIO/CHEM/BICH degree. the biomedical science industry is just blowing up. so much innovation and technology comes from guys with science degrees. yes, you might need a graduate degree or leave Texas, but if you just get any kind of experience with a company that is technology motivated, then i have no doubt you will probably be making decent money.

Bims is the suck. I hated labs but stuck with it b/c the hours didn't transfer over to any non-science related major. I ended up going to law school b/c I still wanted to go to professional school. Worked out well in the end, but I could have save myself from organic and biochem (they don't call it BICH for nothing) altogether. Best of luck to you BIMS grads and alum.

I worked for Lynntech for 8 months in 2006, right after graduation, half of that time in their microbiology and DNA labs doing research. they laid me off because they weren't working on any projects that required microbiological knowledge. most of their research is in electrochemistry (the chem lab is HUGE) and engineering (electrical, chemical and mechanical mostly). the majority of people who work there have PhDs and speak with accents.

they're great people, don't get me wrong. I enjoyed working with them (most of them anyway). the president is pretty cool and I adored the VP of research in CS (my direct boss), he's this cool Irish guy with excellent taste in music... it's just that there isn't really much to DO when you're a BIMS major. if you check my profile, you'll see I have a lot of posts. at least 8,000 of them were from the time period I was working with Lynntech because I was so bored every day.

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I more or less have a BIMS degree right now. Completed all the requisites and meet the degree requirements, so it's a matter of graduating.

Problem is, I was promised the world on a silver platter if I did BIMS, and I thought it was a good idea. After all, Biomedical Science. That's exactly what I wanted to do. And the courses are interesting and I've learned a great deal.

But it kills the GPA. I wish I'd done Animal Science instead and just taken the required BIMS courses needed for vet school. The sole focus of BIMS on science courses is kind of taxing as well. In Animal Science I'd get to work with the animals. In BIMS I work with...uh well chemicals, mostly. And a dead dog in anatomy (which was surprisingly interesting). But again it kills the GPA, and that's all vet school cares about. A 3.6 in BIMS is the same as a 3.6 in ANSC, or FINC, or whatever other program one comes from.

So I applied to vet school as a junior last year, got rejected (did get an interview though) and my GPA was the biggest factor. So while I could graduate right now, I have to stay another year and try to bring up the damage to my GPA from the classes that I could've avoided else wise in another program (like second semester of biochem).



Oh and Skip Landis is the associate dean now.

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Hospital Administration. I graduated with my BIMS degree in 06 and I'm now on my way to receiving my Masters in Healthcare Administration. You should look into it.

I would agree with clinical research. In vitro and in vivo trials are just part of the preliminary testing on the long road to FDA approval. Phase I-IV testing can present opportunities for a variety of people, from patient recruitment coordinators, to study coordinators, to data specialists, to becoming a clinical monitor (CRA). They combine a passion for wanting to see potential curing medications eventually seek approval by regulatory agencies and be made available to the public.

I would suggest trying to get on with a CRO and get into a study coordinator role and after a year or two, move into a monitoring role overseeing various sites and protocols. After another 2-3 years, I'd look towards big pharma (Pfizer, Roche, Genentech, Amgen, etc.) or you might even consider incorporating yourself and becoming an independent contractor to various research organizations and sponsor companies.

I got a worthless BIMS degree and then a MS from the School of Rural public Health. The faculty was great, but does not help you find a job very much. Therefore, I suggest going into teaching. It's very rewarding and as another poster said, a lot of districts in DFW are paying upwards of 46k starting out. Besides, it's about to get a lot better with state rewards systems for qualified teachers, which, believe it or not, you are as a BIMS major.