Spring: This semester, I continued my work with Dream Team Engineering, the Integrated Product & Process Design Program, and the Industrial Training & Assessment Center at UF. I also took Medical 3D Printing as a graduate-level elective and designed my own horse surgery.

Summer: I will be an Engineering Intern with Edwards Lifesciences at their Irvine, California location.

Integrated Product and Process Design (IPPD)

Team RideOn! finished our Powered Adaptive Tricycle for Boys with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, thus concluding our time with the IPPD program. We were selected by the Capstone Design Community to present our work at their conference over the summer. Alongside this honor, the IPPD awarded us the distinction of IPPD Exemplary Team - Conference Merit, and invited us to be keynote speakers at the 30th annual Final Design Review (FDR). FDR allowed us to meet with our sponsor, present our project during the keynote, and table for a public showcase. We showed off our trike its completed handcycle and control system, our poster, and our video to our executive sponsor and future tricycle users and were met with enthusiasm. While my team in IPPD is over, I will continue to work with this project via researching patient hand cycling benefits in the future.

Medical 3D Printing

This class taught me how to segment out bones from MRI/CT data to create a 3D model. Then, I learned how to use the 3D models to make cutting guides, reduction guides, and plates for use in real surgeries. My final project was to design guides for a fetlock arthrodesis in a horse: a surgery where you must cut bones to destroy a bad joint and realign the fragments to fix horse lameness. After printed the segmented bones and guides, I was able to preform a mock surgery in the large animal OR.

Other Involvement