Biomedical Engineering Personal Statement

In my summer job as a camp counselor, I worked with a camper, Morgan, who first illustrated to me the potential life-changing impact of biomedical engineering. Morgan had suffered a serious accident and lost both her left arm and leg. This potentially debilitating event seemed but a small inconvenience to her, as a complex prosthetic leg allowed her to play handball, hike through the woods, and ride in a canoe with the effortlessness and poise found in any confident young girl. This experience sparked my interest in biomedical engineering, as I saw how I could use the combination of medicine and engineering to make a difference in someone else’s life. I intend to pursue a biomedical imaging and instrumentation focus within my major so I can create devices like Morgan’s. …show more content…
Through tours of the GE Healthcare plant in Cleveland and conversations with medical students, I saw the complexity and nuance of the human body and developed a curiosity surrounding it. I have seen that physical health stands as the foundation of the hierarchy of needs, the basis without which much becomes impossible. This complexity and importance draws me especially to the field of biomedical engineering, as I strive to create solutions to problems previously thought unsolvable. At Cornell, I look forward to using my engineering experience to dissect issues surrounding the human body, the fundamental part of us; biomedical engineering, in particular, provides me with an opportunity to create something truly new. I hope to join the Cornell engineers, with recent research spanning from the engineering of living prosthetics to organ transplant monitoring, who stand on the front lines of innovation every