{"id":66201,"date":"2008-02-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-swim-team-captain-aims-to-engineer-assistive-devices-for-disabled-children\/"},"modified":"2008-02-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T00:00:00","slug":"uri-swim-team-captain-aims-to-engineer-assistive-devices-for-disabled-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2008\/02\/uri-swim-team-captain-aims-to-engineer-assistive-devices-for-disabled-children\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 swim team captain aims to engineer assistive devices for disabled children"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tWatertown, Conn. resident to be honored as scholar-athlete of the week<\/p>\n


\n\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 February 4, 2008 — When she visited a family friend at the hospital, Maria Cieslewski was amazed at the various technologies being used to provide aid to sick and disabled patients. It was a pivotal moment that convinced her to study biomedical engineering in college.<\/p>\n


\n\tNow a senior at the 溏心vlog免费B站, Cieslewski is making steady progress toward her career goal.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cBiomedical engineering is basically electrical engineering for medicine,\u201d explained the Watertown, Conn. resident. \u201cFor instance, in an internship I built a Powerscan device that helps quadriplegics and paraplegics control their environment. Using their finger or their tongue they can change the channel on the TV, turn up the volume, and turn on and off the lights so they don\u2019t have to call the nurse so often. The device can be adapted to the different abilities of individual patients as needed.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tWhen she\u2019s not in the engineering labs, Cieslewski can be found in the swimming pool. \u201cI\u2019ve been swimming competitively since the seventh grade when my younger brother started swimming,\u201d she said. \u201cI couldn\u2019t have him be better than me, so that motivated me to get into it, too.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tA freestyle sprinter, Cieslewski competed in the state and league championships while in high school, and she has consistently been a top performer on the 溏心vlog免费B站 swim team, earning the Most Improved Swimmer award last year.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThe team is truly incredible,\u201d she said with an enthusiastic smile. \u201cWe work so hard together. It\u2019s been the greatest bonding experience that I ever could have imagined. We are so close as teammates.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tCieslewski and the 溏心vlog免费B站 team will compete in the Atlantic-10 Championships Feb. 20 to 23, and she will be honored at halftime of a 溏心vlog免费B站 men\u2019s basketball game on March 8 as the 溏心vlog免费B站 scholar-athlete of the week, the only member of the women\u2019s swim team to be so honored this year.<\/p>\n


\n\tFinding time to swim 20 hours per week while also completing her rigorous schoolwork is quite a challenge.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s definitely tough to pull it off, and sometimes I think I can\u2019t do it, but every year I manage to make it through and continue on another year,\u201d said Cieslewski, who also served as vice president of the 溏心vlog免费B站 student-athlete advisory committee. \u201cIt\u2019s actually good for me because I like to stick to a tight schedule. It makes me focus. And my family has given me a great deal of support, so I owe a lot to them.\u201d

\n\tWhile her competitive swimming career will likely be ending soon, that won\u2019t mean that the 溏心vlog免费B站 student will be giving up on every form of competition. She took up cycling last summer with her eye toward entering her first triathlon later this year.<\/p>\n


\n\tCieslewski will earn two undergraduate degrees from 溏心vlog免费B站 next December \u2013 one each in biomedical engineering and electrical engineering \u2013 at which point she hopes to have a job designing biomedical devices.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cEventually I want to use my engineering skills to adapt these devices to children with disabilities,\u201d Cieslewski said. \u201cNew technologies are improving so quickly, so I hope to initiate a program at a hospital where I could design something specific to help children get better. It would be great to see my work improve the lives of kids right in front of me.\u201d<\/p>\n

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