Wednesday Reflection: Mriganka

I have enjoyed my Bio-Med Tech-Girls experience so far. The fact that biomedical engineering encompasses so many disciplines has blown my mind, as I though it was very interesting to see the myriad of ways it was used at the labs we visited and from individual presentations. Overall, these experiences involved David Chen's talk on BME; Kim Wilkens on CS; Dr. Langer on epilepsy; Sue Berres and a patient at the Children's Hospital discussing therapy, limb braces, and stabilizers; the Peirce-Cottler lab on math modeling and 3D printing; Liam Cornwall on his experience with BME; the M3 lab; and the various presentations and discussions by Katharine and Karina, like on virtual reality, for example. The people and labs mentioned above are living proof of the capability of biomedical engineering to truly improve the lives of many, and their dedication to BME to attain this goal is inspiring. Aside from visiting labs and viewing presentations, high points of the program included how we were actually able to take BME into our own hands and envision the design process by creating prototypes of devices that would improve realistic problems. I would not go so far as to call not having enough time to complete prototyping a low point, but all the same, I hope we have more time in the future.