GMI Student Blogs
Biomedical Engineering in Latin America
Something that I learned while interning in Nicaragua last year is that “biomedical engineering”, as we call it in the United States, isn’t really an established phrase within Central America. In the U.S., the term “biomedical engineering” (BME) usually refers to the...
Proof of Concept Prototyping
Cooking Up Something Good This week I spent a lot of time running tests and prototyping concepts in Boston Scientific’s engineering lab. The highlight of this week was creating and testing different material coatings for Boston Scientific’s new ureteral stent. As I...
A Tourist in My Host Town
I decided I wanted to go to graduate school because I wanted to make a shift within bioengineering toward designing in and for low resource environments to make health care technology available to everyone. I was encouraged by GMI’s focus on cultural immersion as a...
Another Prototypical Week in CR
For those of you who laughed at me when I blogged about graduate school being mostly scissors, construction paper and glue… guess what, that’s also a large part of private Research & Development! Much like the work we completed during the medical design short...
Risky Business
When do you allow yourself to take a risk? Would you dive off a rocky cliff without knowing what’s at the base? What about buying a new book from the store because the description sounded interesting? These situations are clearly polar opposites, but they’re both...
Exploring Different Career Paths
Although I already have a good idea of what I want to do after graduation, last week I was able to set up a few informational interviews to hear more about the two areas I’d like to work in. Ideally, I’d like to be a clinical specialist or field clinical engineer and...
FUNctional testing
This week was largely focused on the torque device project. This was partly because two colleagues on the test method development project were in Minnesota testing for the week, and partly because the torque device project is now at a point that requires a lot of...
My Understanding of Suppliers In Corporations
Each week here at Boston Scientific has been filled with new learnings. This week my main learnings had to do with working through projects in supplier engineering and building my understanding of supplier engineering within Boston Scientific. I was able to finalize...
Hooray for Engineering – Graphs and Meetings
We've completed internship week five. A main focus of work this week was the continuation of the quality investigation of supplier material. Initially, I was told that the project was of secondary importance, but it turns out that this issue affects thousands of units...
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