Superhero Engineering

When people ask me what I want to do, I often have trouble. I feel uncomfortable simply saying biomedical and/or neural engineering, first because most people don't know what that is, but more importantly because that doesn't quite cover what I want to do. Today's biomedical engineering is almost exclusively focused on improving the lives of sick/disabled people to the standard of a healthy life, which, while being an extremely worthy endeavor, does not particularly interest me. Much more interesting to me is a field largely untouched: improving healthy human beings.

The best way I've thought of to describe this to people who aren't me is to think of Batman, without the annoying emotional issues. He wasn't born with super powers, but using technology and ingenuity he elevated himself to the level of superhero. The differences between me and Batman include the fact that I will not limit my improvements to myself (if others are willing to pay), I don't intend to become a vigilante, I won't limit my improvements to super strength and abilities that can only be used in odd circumstances, and, most importantly, I will mainly focus on improving people from the inside using biomedical technology, rather than making really cool suits and devices.

At some point in the future I hope to post a few of my ideas about what I want to do (which will also explain why I'm studying what I'm studying), but for now I'll be content with describing myself with the new term I just came up with: Superhero Engineering.

P.S. I don't expect to be able to make my services available to the public (or myself, for that matter) for at least six years, sorry ^_^