2026

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 am a Materials Characterization Engineering Intern with Edwards Lifesciences in Irvine, California.

Fall: I will be a Learning Assistant for Biomedical Engineering Senior Design while finishing my last 3 classes, completing my honors thesis, and continuing other projects. I'm excited to graduate in December!

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 program 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 session, and table for a public showcase. We showed off our trike with its completed handcycle and control system, our poster, and our video to our executive sponsor and future tricycle users. We were met with great enthusiasm. While my time in IPPD is over, I will continue to work with this project via researching patient hand cycling benefits in the future, potentially for my honors thesis.

Keynote presentation at Final Design Review

Final handlebar CAD

Public showcase stakeholder picture

Part manufacturing on the mill

Presenting as 1 of 20 teams at the 2026 Capstone Conference in College Station, TX

Poster

MVI_6611.MP4

Patient testing

Demonstrating tricycle function to sponsor

Final back mounting CAD

Final tricycle front housing and handlebars

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.

Cutting Guide

Reduction Guide

Surgery

Phelps Lab

In the Spring, I expanded upon a recently published paper to address reviewer comments (10.1101/2025.03.21.644659). I drew regions of interest to establish a full binding curve for CaMPARI2, a new calcium integrator. These efforts will improve diabetes research methodologies.

DICOM Kidney Team Captain

This summer, I restarted the DICOM Kidney project under Dream Team Engineering. This project existed when I was a shadow in 2023, but it was unsustained and eventually dormant. After gaining medical segmentation skills through my Medical 3D Printing course, I decided to restart this project to 3D model kidneys to give donors a replica of thier gift. So far our sponsor at UF Health Shands Hospital has loved our progress!

Material Characterization Intern, Edwards Lifesciences

I am working with the Materials Characterization Center (MCCI) under the Reliability and Failure Investigation Team. This summer, I've learned to use lab equipment including SEM, FTIR, DSC, DMA, TGA, MFI, Keyence microscopes, and load frames. My main project involves developing a protocol on the Melt Flow Index to mimic a manufacturing process and ultimately reduce scrap. In addition, I support other MCCI requests for material testing related to accelerated aging, tensile strength, and surface imaging. I've also worked on two post-market failure investigations and am progressing toward my Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt.

Other Involvement

Cardiac Data Device Team

As the CAD team lead, I organized market research initiatives so we can learn how expected users would like to interact with the device.

Audit Leader & Member

I attended 2 audits this semester and continued writing assessment recommendations to optimize energy consumption.

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