A couple of weeks back, our sister site EE Times recieved a note from a young engineering grad with aspirations of becoming a medical electronics designer.

The student, Xiuxin Yang, holds a bachelor's degree in biomedical engineering and a master's degree in electrical engineering and has experience in FPGA design, small embedded system design, and  embedded C programming, among other skills. But so far, she has had a difficult time breaking into the medical device industry. Her question: "With such a background, how can I enter medical electronics field?"

That got me thinking about how MED readers got their starts in this industry. Please share your story in the comments below.

—Jamie Hartford