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Undergraduate
Finds Biomedical Engineering a Good Match
As
an undergraduate electrical engineering student, Selene Lee helped
research, design, develop, and test foot switch sensors to record
the timing of a patient's gait. These sensors will be used to collect
data on spinal cord injury patients through the UCLA Human Locomotion
Research Center.
Lee had selected the biomedical engineering option as a freshman,
and found that she really enjoyed her chemistry and biology courses,
as well as aspects of her electrical engineering work such as circuit
design.
Seeking an opportunity to work on a biomedical engineering project
involving electrical engineering principles, she volunteered to
work in Professor Jack Judy's lab. Working with a team of biomedical
engineering graduate students in the Neuroengineering Graduate Laboratory,
Lee helped build and test circuits as part of a retinal prosthetic
project.
This summer she began her master's project, studying ways to improve
the shunts used to treat hydrocephalus, an abnormal increase in
the amount of cerebrospinal fluid within the cranial cavity.
Her advisor Judy notes, "Selene is really committed to the development
of new biomedical engineering technologies that can help people
and be a commercial success. Her future graduate education and research
in neuroengineering, a specialty within the Biomedical Engineering
IDP, will provide her ample opportunity to do just that."
Lee received her bachelor's in electrical engineering in June 2002,
and is entering UCLA's biomedical engineering program this fall.
She served as President of the Engineering Society of UCLA for Winter
and Spring Quarters 2002.
Photo credit: Scott Quintard, UCLA Photography
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