2015-2016 YEAR IN REVIEW
This year again went by in a blur. I had new opportunities and set the stage pretty well for myself moving forward to the end of my college career. I guess that’s as good place to start as any – that I found out I’m far enough ahead with my academic curriculum that I’ll be able to graduate with my BS in Biomedical Engineering at the end of this coming year, my fourth year as an undergraduate. This is technically a year ahead of schedule, but I have also picked up an MBA with the ACCEND program, which is an accelerated engineering program that allows student to add a Master’s degree within the same five year timeline as normally scheduled out by the engineering programs. I might even be a semester ahead of that schedule, since I was able to start on some MBA classes this past spring semester. Going into my senior year here at UC, I might have room for some more graduate classes, but I’ll mainly focus on my senior design capstone and finishing up my BME program.
Speaking of my capstone, at the end of the spring semester, I finalized that I would be working with Dr. Kevin Haworth on UC’s Medical Campus to complete my project. I’ll be working to explore the acoustic droplet vaporization gas scavenging effects of two differently formulated droplets to see which type absorbs more gas. There are a number of internal medicine applications for these droplets, including things like image contrasts and clot therapy. Hopefully I am able to dedicate enough of my time and effort to get some good results from this project since it is such a big part of the engineering curriculum.
Also this past spring, I was able to travel to Europe for the first time with an honors seminar class I took. It was a political science class focused on international organizations like the EU and the UN, and as such we traveled to Brussels, Belgium and The Hague, Netherlands (Scheveningen Beach - pictured above), which are two of the biggest political focal points in Europe. The EU has especially become a hot topic now that the British referendum has occurred and the citizens voted to leave the Union. Because of the class, I have a little better perspective on the situation than most Americans might, not to mention that being in Europe for the first time was a great experience. For more details, check out the International Institutions page under the Honors Seminars tab above.
To close out the review of this past year before I start looking ahead, in the fall I did my second engineering co-op rotation in downtown Cincinnati for a company by the name of Intelemage. It was a really great experience and I was looking forward to going back for another rotation this summer, but I found out during the spring semester that the company had been acquired by a big healthcare data company and as part of the business transition, were cutting out the co-op program. Since then I have found a new position at the global headquarters of Medpace, a Cincinnati-based Clinical Research Organization (CRO) that helps pharma and biotech companies run their drug and device clinical trials all across the world. So far it’s been a great learning experience since I’ve been able to build off of the clinical trial experience I gained at Intelemage.
Moving forward, it’s looking like some sort of research position is in my future, as that is what I have come to enjoy both at work and in school. Within research there a few routed I could still go, such as clinical research or industry research and development (R&D), but I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it after graduation. For now I’m focusing on finishing strong in my last year of undergraduate work before I transition to being a full time MBA student for a semester of two. Then I can worry about where and how I’ll enter the workforce, so wish me luck! Thanks for reading!
Speaking of my capstone, at the end of the spring semester, I finalized that I would be working with Dr. Kevin Haworth on UC’s Medical Campus to complete my project. I’ll be working to explore the acoustic droplet vaporization gas scavenging effects of two differently formulated droplets to see which type absorbs more gas. There are a number of internal medicine applications for these droplets, including things like image contrasts and clot therapy. Hopefully I am able to dedicate enough of my time and effort to get some good results from this project since it is such a big part of the engineering curriculum.
Also this past spring, I was able to travel to Europe for the first time with an honors seminar class I took. It was a political science class focused on international organizations like the EU and the UN, and as such we traveled to Brussels, Belgium and The Hague, Netherlands (Scheveningen Beach - pictured above), which are two of the biggest political focal points in Europe. The EU has especially become a hot topic now that the British referendum has occurred and the citizens voted to leave the Union. Because of the class, I have a little better perspective on the situation than most Americans might, not to mention that being in Europe for the first time was a great experience. For more details, check out the International Institutions page under the Honors Seminars tab above.
To close out the review of this past year before I start looking ahead, in the fall I did my second engineering co-op rotation in downtown Cincinnati for a company by the name of Intelemage. It was a really great experience and I was looking forward to going back for another rotation this summer, but I found out during the spring semester that the company had been acquired by a big healthcare data company and as part of the business transition, were cutting out the co-op program. Since then I have found a new position at the global headquarters of Medpace, a Cincinnati-based Clinical Research Organization (CRO) that helps pharma and biotech companies run their drug and device clinical trials all across the world. So far it’s been a great learning experience since I’ve been able to build off of the clinical trial experience I gained at Intelemage.
Moving forward, it’s looking like some sort of research position is in my future, as that is what I have come to enjoy both at work and in school. Within research there a few routed I could still go, such as clinical research or industry research and development (R&D), but I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it after graduation. For now I’m focusing on finishing strong in my last year of undergraduate work before I transition to being a full time MBA student for a semester of two. Then I can worry about where and how I’ll enter the workforce, so wish me luck! Thanks for reading!