When I began my internship, I thought I would be doing simple mindless work everyday because of the fact that I would be working at an engineering company where most tasks require previous knowledge. I was surprised that "mindless work" was definitely the opposite of what I would be doing! In fact on the second day of interning there, my mentor gave me an investigation that addresses the effects of environment conditions on extracellular matrix tissue. As you can probably guess, I have been doing a lot of reading on the function of the ECM material and its purpose in the human body. Overall, I've found that this internship opportunity might get increasing difficult, but it's certainly not an experience to overlook.
Last week my mentor introduced me to the Instron tensile strength machine that's used to measure the force it takes for the ECM material to break both vertically and horizontally. One surprising aspect of working at a biomedical engineering company is the many careful documentations that come along with every test and research project. When I was working with the Instron machine, my mentor taught me how to document my data properly and learn how to operate the machinery by myself. Perhaps I can improve my performance at work by exploring the functions of the machinery at home, so that when I'm working I can have a better understanding of what's going on. I believe that if I do some independent study on the topic, I can be better equipped to work the machinery and therefore get more accurate data for my investigation.
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Link to 1st Annotated Bibliography Article: http://eds.b.ebscohost.com/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=2&sid=0dc374bb-1268-4804-9e6a-b7dac4ba75bf%40sessionmgr103 Reflection:
This is a graphic organizer of a journal consisting of papers discussing the latest advancement in the Biomedical Engineering field.
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Divya B.High School Intern at a biomedical engineering company called Aziyo Biologics Archives
May 2018
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