YEAR 2019
Explore My Work
I officially started my masters in Biomedical Engineering and position as a Special Projects Fellow at the GW Innovation Center. The focus of my fellowship is building interdisciplinary collaborations with local and global partners as well as creating an all-inclusive maker-space supporting our students education and personal project aspirations. At the GW Innovation Center, we use the principles of human-centered design and design thinking to revolutionize project creation within the School of Engineering. https://www.seas.gwu.edu/gw-innovation-center
Along with co-founders and support from the Innovation Center, I also brought George Hacks to the next level and incorporated it as non-profit company.
THE GW INNOVATION CENTER MAKER SPACE
The GW Innovation Center (GWIC) Maker-Space is an interdisciplinary space open to all students regardless of their majors. I developed both the initial phases of remodeling the space to finalizing and leading workshops in 3D modeling and 3D printing. The layout of the space is specifically made to serve projects that can afterwards be stored in project boxes, allowing a much greater number of projects to be hosted. The space also was able to support more than 15 capstone teams giving them a space to come back to where they could work at any time of the day (or night).
This project allowed me to strengthen some of my technical skills, explore ways for best teaching practices and management of such a space.
MAKE-A-THING FRIDAYS
Make-a-thing started as a passion project of mine. I always enjoyed learning something new each week of my studies. This project allowed me to open that opportunity to many other engineers and non engineers at GW. At the GWIC, there are a variety of students with different skills which created a community of skill sharing and moonshot proposals. One week we would learn how to build a mechanical keyboard from scratch, and another how to make reusable bags out of single use bags.
CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY COLLABORATION
Spearheading the collaboration between the Chalmers University Entrepreneurship and the GW Engineering capstone projects for project advancement and eventual tech commercialization. This project is currently being developed for all senior design students.
CAPSTONE PROJECT REAL WORLD PROJECTS
As part of my position of a teaching assistant I took on the task to collect 8 real world projects from my network I have developed over the years. The project vetting process included assessment in requirements, expectations, marketability and overall potential to make social impact. The projects included veterans, nurses and medical professionals needs.
GEORGE HACKS NON-PROFIT
I was part of a team that founded a nonprofit that catalyzes innovation in healthcare by empowering the next generation of change makers. Our 'hackathons' are innovation competitions that facilitate early application of classroom knowledge to real-world issues, develop teamwork skills, and improve communication of ideas across disciplines. We promote the entrepreneurial spirit by exposing students to what it takes to create a feasible, marketable solution, and provide students with resources to move forward in the innovation pipeline. To help students with human-centered design and prototyping, we provide mentorship from industry experts and workshops for students to learn both technical and soft skills.
