This is truly an exciting time to be a
biomedical engineer.
Students in biomedical engineering are
going to learn fundamental principles of
engineering.
From mechanical, electrical, to chemical
systems so they are prepared to work in a
healthcare environment to solve problems
and they're going to also understand
biology and physiology. So they'll
understand how to apply those
engineering principles to the human body.
One of my favorite things about my time
in biomedical engineering was a study
abroad to Germany. This was my
sophomore
spring semester and it was really neat
to be able to travel to a new country
with a group
of 20 or so biomedical engineering
students.
Working as an undergraduate student in
a laboratory is an incredible
opportunity
to really take what they are learning in
the classroom
and connecting it to what actually
happens
in research and ultimately feeds into
technology
and they're really learning skills that
they can take with them
onto their next stage of their career.
What I've enjoyed most about being a
student in the department
is really the access to you know
equipment, facilities,
and even high-level personnel across the
entirety of the university
as well as within the department here in
biomechanical engineering.
The biggest impact that I see that I
have received from the department
is the sense of collaboration, which I
don't think it exists
anywhere else. Whatever skills, whatever
expertise I need
to make our work successful I only have
to just come out of my office
or give a phone call to somebody and I
can find that person nearby.
You're working on sponsored projects
from either physicians or industry sponsors
and if
you think about some of the work we've
done lately, it's been with the Southwest
Pediatric Consortium, where we're working
on devices for an unmet market in
pediatric health and from anywhere from
surgical instrumentation
to implantable devices it could be
encompassed in that.
We have company sponsor projects as well,
typically they're all device related.
They can be implantable, reusable,
disposable kind of products we even do
some packaging and sterilization
projects
for industry and it really gives
students real life opportunity
in their college career to really
understand what it's like to work in
industry.
The work that's being done in the labs
in this building
by our faculty and our students is
changing the world.
It's not staying in the labs it's going
out into the clinic and it's saving
people's lives.
