Assistant Professor Kathleen Sienko
(Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering/CoE)
Student Comments:
"It was truly a transformative experience, and I consider it one of the best investments of my time as an engineering student at Michigan. In little more than 6 months, participants have the chance to identify a unique design challenge, travel to a foreign country, develop an innovative device, and fully engage in the design process."
"I learned how to design a product well, but also took away an extreme appreciation for the capacity that a well-engineered product can have on society."
"Learning how to interact with midwives, physicians, and patients to conduct a needs assessment and obtain user requirements is an incredibly useful skill, and one that I would not have been able to develop to the same extent in any other course."
"I am still incredibly proud of the work that I did during that class and the success it has since garnered. We successfully published the work we did during senior design, a relatively uncommon occurrence for undergraduate students and even spun the technology off into a startup company."
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