The thing that motivates me the most is knowing that what I help create will one day end up inside someone – making their life better. As a BME, we have an innate feel to improve patient care through physical products or research.

However, on a more direct level, I am really motivated by the satisfaction of fixing issues. In one of my previous internships, I got involved in some product design work for specialty instruments. I went through several iterations of design-prototype-design-prototype, etc. The best feeling was learning from my mistakes and overcoming this challenge to recreate the part based on what I learned. I think learning something different really changes my perspective on a design/process and gets me more excited to complete my work.