{"id":67075,"date":"2006-05-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/warwick-resident-graduates-from-uri-to-career-designing-medical-devices\/"},"modified":"2006-05-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-17T00:00:00","slug":"warwick-resident-graduates-from-uri-to-career-designing-medical-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2006\/05\/warwick-resident-graduates-from-uri-to-career-designing-medical-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"Warwick resident graduates from 溏心vlog免费B站 to career designing medical devices"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tKINGSTON, R.I. — May 17, 2006 — She built medical devices for disabled patients, traveled Europe, played soccer, and earned numerous academic accolades. Now Warwick resident Beth Therrien is graduating from the 溏心vlog免费B站 on May 21 as one of 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s top biomedical engineering students.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI was always good in math and science, and when I considered majoring in engineering, it was the medical aspects of engineering that interested me the most,\u201d Therrien said. \u201cThe thought of designing medical devices really fascinates me.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nEven before she graduates, the 21-year-old student received considerable experience doing just that. She participated in an internship with Slater Hospital in Cranston in which she built electronic devices to help disabled patients control lighting, televisions and other equipment in their hospital rooms. And in her senior design project, she built a portable heart monitoring system that graphically displays a patient\u2019s electrocardiogram and photoplethysmogram waveforms.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cThese battery-powered, handheld devices are built by our students from scratch,\u201d said 溏心vlog免费B站 Biomedical Engineering Professor Ying Sun. \u201cTo design and build them they must apply many skills that they have learned from our curriculum such as analog and digital circuits, microprocessor based design, signal processing, and C++ programming.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cBethany has always been at the top of her class in biomedical engineering,\u201d Sun added. \u201cShe works hard and always has a smile on her face.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nTherrien earned Dean\u2019s List accolades all four years at 溏心vlog免费B站 and is a member of the national engineering honor societies Tau Beta Pi and Etta Kappa Nu. She also was an active member of the Society of Women Engineers.<\/p>\n


\nBut she\u2019s not just a stellar student. She plays soccer in the competitive Rhode Island Women\u2019s Soccer League and runs in road races \u2013 sports she starred in at Tollgate High School. She\u2019s also a proficient Spanish speaker who spent a summer studying in Salamanca, Spain. \u201cIt was an absolutely incredible experience,\u201d said Therrien, who paid her own way through school by working as a waitress and bartender. \u201cI had never been to Europe before, and we traveled around a lot. It was just incredible!\u201d<\/p>\n


\nAfter graduation, Therrien will begin full-time work as a research and development engineer at Afferent Corp. in Providence, where she will design and build medical devices for stroke patients and others with neurological disorders. It\u2019s a job she began part-time in early 2006.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cIn the future I intend to gain some more experience in the field and grow with this incredible start-up company, Afferent, and eventually pursue grad school,\u201d Therrien said. \u201cI just hope that I will play an important role in the medical device industry, and help to improve even a few individuals\u2019 lives.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n溏心vlog免费B站 News Bureau Photo by Michael Salerno Photography.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. — May 17, 2006 — She built medical devices for disabled patients, traveled Europe, played soccer, and earned numerous academic accolades. Now Warwick resident Beth Therrien is graduating from the 溏心vlog免费B站 on May 21 as one of 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s top biomedical engineering students. \u201cI was always good in math […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}