BioE MEng alumnus Bradley Los (2018) shares his path from newly admitted grad student to full-time engineer at a top company.
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Student feature: Prithiv Natarajan
Prithiv is a BioE student and career rep in the MEng program from Chennai, India. He is currently working on a Capstone project with the USPTO, using VR to deal with a variety of patenting issues.
Business classes help engineers better understand the world we live in
BioE MEng student Oskar Radermecker shared on Medium how the Master of Engineering business bootcamps have transformed how he views technology and business.
BioE alumnus in 30 Under 30
2014 BioE MEng alum Po-Jui (Ray) Chiu has been named to the Forbes 30 Under 30! Po-Jui worked with Professor Seung-Wuk Lee to develop accurate, cheap, bio-based sensor platforms for detecting airborne chemicals. He went on to found promising startup BioInspira, creating low-cost bio-inspired chemical sensors.
Million Hands builds an open-source platform for customizable, functional, low-cost prosthetic hands
Learn more about Million Hands, a team-based project that has been making progress in developing 3D-printed prosthetic hands with more robust capability. Four bioengineering MEng students, Aastha Shah, Sina Dabiri, Jose Ramirez, and Aashish Bhardwaj, are members of the team.
Alumni Highlight: Leela Tanikella, Class of 2015
Leela Tanikella graduated with her MEng degree in Bioengineering in 2015. She currently works at Intuitive Surgical, where she is a Design Controls engineer. Her favorite part of her job is knowing that she is improving the lives of patients who benefit from the technology that she helps develop.
Career Q&A with alumnus Greg Wohlleb of BD Biosciences
Greg Wohlleb MEng ’16 (BIOE) returned in February 2018 to represent BD Biosciences, chat with students about his work in engineering, and share his advice for getting the job.
Capstone Profile: Designing resiliency for the pandemic flu
Master of Engineering students Jasodhara Raj (BIOE), Suyasha Gupta (BIOE), and Arnaud Bard de Coutance (ME) aim to develop software to automate and standardize the reporting procedures for influenza cases. This would mean that hospitals and physicians do not have to report data themselves, which would save a significant amount of time and increase physicians’ incentives to run the tests leading to improvement in tracking.
Million Hands with MEng students
BioE Master of Engineering students Bhardwaj, Dabiri, and Ramirez are working with the Million Hands organization to create customized low-cost prosthetic hands for children with 3D-printing.