This past January, Dr. Lam was asked to speak about HealthReach and the impact on undergraduate education.

The video can be found here – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm33Sp05lzY

Dr. Wilbur Lam, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology, explains how engineering undergraduate students are teaching STEM to hospitalized children through a course called Health Reach.

https://www.bme.gatech.edu/bme/bme-honors-undergraduates

BME HealthReach award winners –

• Tau Beta Pi Award: Morgan Stephens (candidate)

The Tau Beta Pi Award is the College of Engineering’s highest award for graduating seniors. It is based on academic excellence, leadership, and service. Candidates must have a minimum GPA of 3.95.

• Helen Grenga Outstanding Women Engineer Award: Lauren Aycock (candidate), Nancy Deaton (candidate), Morgan Stephens (candidate).

The Helen Grenga Award is the College of Engineering’s highest award for graduating female engineers. The criteria are scholarship, leadership, and service, and the recipient must have a minimum GPA of 3.6.

• Outstanding Entrepreneur Award: Garrett Wallace (winner).
The other candidate was Olivia Lodise.

“With an InVenture prize win, an Institutional Review Board approved study, and a pending patent, Garrett is a prototypical entrepreneur,” said Le Doux. “He was a Fellow for NeuroLaunch, an accelerator program for neuroscience startups, and has a minor is technology and management. He’ll be starting at Emory School of Medicine in July to pursue an M.D, and I hope that he will continue his entrepreneurial spirit with us.”

• Dr. G. D. Jain Outstanding Senior Award: Morgan Stephens (winner).
Other candidates were Mahdi Al Husseini, Lauren Aycock, Emma Blume, Michael Brown, Anirudh Joshi, Argyro Kosmakos, Armel Nsiangani, and Cassidy Wang.

As a volunteer, Stephens works with sickle cell disease patients at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta-Hughes-Spalding Hospital, where she also tutors a high school student. Stephens, who will soon start work as an analyst with Insight Sourcing Group, “was, hands down, the best intern I have ever worked with,” according to Jim Cunningham, project engineer with Medtronic. “She is years ahead of her experience level.”

HealthReach members won –

Outstanding Academic Service Award

Winner: Cray Noah

Outstanding Community Service Award

Winner: Catherine Edwards

Mr. S.K. Jain Outstanding Research Award

Winner: Shohini Ghosh-Choudhary.

Dr. G.D. Jain Outstanding Senior Award

Winner: Benjamin Ashby.

https://www.bme.gatech.edu/bme/bme-undergrads-honored

Morgan Stephens

Fayetteville, Georgia

For the family of Morgan Stephens, industrial engineering and Georgia Tech is a way of life. Her maternal grandfather, her mother, and an aunt all have industrial engineering degrees from Georgia Tech. Her dad has a Tech degree, too — but in building construction, and Stephens is getting a degree in biomedical engineering.

“I think I would make a good industrial engineer,” she said. “I have always been wired like an industrial engineer: Everything has to be done in the most efficient way.”

But Stephens is charting her own path with biomedical engineering.

“I wanted to do something that would keep me interested and invested,” she said. “I enjoy science, health care, and medicine, and my soft skills are my biggest strengths. Biomedical engineering is a good blend of skills that can be applicable in many different fields.”

After graduating, she will be a consultant for Insight Sourcing Group (ISG) in Norcross.

“I loved the company culture,” she said. “ISG brings in talent from many different backgrounds: engineering, business, history, science. They value the variety.”

Stephens said being close to family is important. In her job, she will have the opportunity to travel, but she will not be on the road all of the time. She is considering getting her MBA or a master’s degree in biomedical innovation and design, via Georgia Tech’s Pathways Program.

Commencement will be a family celebration on campus. Her parents, Thomas Stephens and Lisa Volmar, met at Georgia Tech. In 1984, her mom became the first female driver of the Ramblin’ Wreck. Stephens is a member of the Reck Club.

http://www.news.gatech.edu/features/georgia-grown-graduates

BME undergrad student capturing the spirit of service

Bharat Sanders, an undergraduate student in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME), has won a $6,000 Campus Life Scholarship, which recognizes and rewards students that have positively impacted the university community through leadership, scholarship, and service.

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