Leah Thomas is passionate about combining her love for art with engineering and exercising both the left and right sides of her brain. From a young age, she was always sewing and tinkering, and she dreamed of being a fashion designer. She switched directions to pursue biomedical engineering at Virginia Tech, where she was able to develop her technical skills in healthcare design. Leah was the lead software and hardware developer for a wearable device targeted at patients with lymphedema, which is now on the path toward commercialization. For her capstone project, she worked on a wearable multimodal sensor array system to track biological parameters to improve hemodialysis treatment. She has also participated in several interdisciplinary design and research teams, which opened her eyes to creative collaboration. Blending her technical engineering skills with artistic skills has helped her serve as a bridge between previously separate fields. Leah will be working as an Electrical Design Engineer for Stryker starting in August 2022, but she plans to continue as many creative projects on the side.
-Python, Arduino, C++, Processing, p5.js, MATLAB
-Lasercutting, Thermoforming, Soldering
-Sewing, Flat Pattern Making, Draping, Tailoring
RJ has worked with multiple large universities, organizations, and healthcare research labs to tackle the pressing issues facing our world today, and help solve these complex design problems through the use of computational tools. He is fluent in the grasshopper scripting language, and has an interest in mass customization as it relates to body architecture / wearables. Past projects include a generatively designed bamboo construction aiming to meet the needs of the current and upcoming housing crisis, a fully 3D printed cane designed alongside the OXO brand and inspired by the trabecular bone lattice structure, as well as a bio-printed face mask to protect our lungs from the increasing amounts of pollution in the atmosphere. RJ is always looking to explore new industries and topic areas, so feel free to reach out if you have a project in mind! Andrea says to write more cool stuff I've done here.
-Computational Design, Grasshopper + Rhino3D
-VR Sculpting, Gravity Sketch
-3D Scanning, Photogrammetry
-3D Printing
Mariam Hasan is passionate about combining her love for art with engineering and exercising both the left and right sides of her brain. From a young age, she was always sewing and tinkering, and she dreamed of being a fashion designer. She switched directions to pursue biomedical engineering at Virginia Tech, where she was able to develop her technical skills in healthcare design. Leah was the lead software and hardware developer for a wearable device targeted at patients with lymphedema, which is now on the path toward commercialization. For her capstone project, she worked on a wearable multimodal sensor array system to track biological parameters to improve hemodialysis treatment. She has also participated in several interdisciplinary design and research teams, which opened her eyes to creative collaboration. Blending her technical engineering skills with artistic skills has helped her serve as a bridge between previously separate fields. Leah will be working as an Electrical Design Engineer for Stryker starting in August 2022, but she plans to continue as many creative projects on the side.
-Python, Arduino, C++, Processing, p5.js, MATLAB
-Lasercutting, Thermoforming, Soldering , Sewing, Flat Pattern Making, Draping, Tailoring
Minakshi Seth is passionate about combining her love for art with engineering and exercising both the left and right sides of her brain. From a young age, she was always sewing and tinkering, and she dreamed of being a fashion designer. She switched directions to pursue biomedical engineering at Virginia Tech, where she was able to develop her technical skills in healthcare design. Leah was the lead software and hardware developer for a wearable device targeted at patients with lymphedema, which is now on the path toward commercialization. For her capstone project, she worked on a wearable multimodal sensor array system to track biological parameters to improve hemodialysis treatment. She has also participated in several interdisciplinary design and research teams, which opened her eyes to creative collaboration. Blending her technical engineering skills with artistic skills has helped her serve as a bridge between previously separate fields. Leah will be working as an Electrical Design Engineer for Stryker starting in August 2022, but she plans to continue as many creative projects on the side.
-Python, Arduino, C++, Processing, p5.js, MATLAB
-Lasercutting, Thermoforming, Soldering , Sewing, Flat Pattern Making, Draping, Tailoring
