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STUDENT LIFE

Steve Xu

"To me, engineering is about learning how to think in such a way that every problem in life has an elegant solution."

ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT

Alumna Spotlight: Mimi Addy
At ease with patents and painting

Mimi Addy took her electrical engineering degree to law school and is now a top patent lawyer.

UNDERGRAD RESEARCH

Alex Siller
Mathematical Model of a Single Ventricle Heart

The object of this research was to determine how the abnormal geometry of a a total cavopulmonary connection (TCPC) withstands the stresses and strains to which a normal heart is subjected. The TCPC is used in treating some congenital heart defects. The project’s goal was to develop a computational model of the solid mechanics of a single-ventricle heart.