biomed2015

Hey all, I tried to search and I didn't any advice on my particular scenario, so I hope some of you can give me some insight on what you think. To start, I am a biomedical engineering undergraduate student who has been doing research work in dental biomechanics for a mechanical engineering laboratory for nearly three years. The professor I work for, who is the department chair of mechanical engineering, has told me he would take me on as a graduate student for the fall with funding, etc. This seems great and all but now I am in a particularly interesting situation. I also applied to the biomedical engineering department for graduate school because it was free, I had good GRE scores, and there are some researchers who I have interest in working with in the future. Well, I applied and had complete radio silence from the department, so I began to work on my future thesis work with my current researcher (mainly justly literature research and we are planning on writing a meta-review paper.) Now that brings us to this week. I have received some critical information from the BME department that would have made my life much easier... I have been offered full funding for tuition, living stipend, and health insurance through the department and now two researchers in the department have given me offers to work in their labs, and one of which is one that I think has far more interesting research (neural engineering & prosthetic devices) than the work I currently do. I'm now in a position where funding is not going to be an issue but rather I know have to make a decision on whether or not to remain loyal to the professor who has guided me through research as an undergrad, gotten me an internship at a top research university for a summer, and has been very helpful OR choosing research that I find much more challenging, fulfilling, interesting, and I think more applicable for what I want to do later in life.