Up this week is Sam Stuart, our first MSE student! She did her PEY at Synaptive Medical and did a research exchange in Liverpool, while also doing some intellectual property consulting on the side. Notes: 0:00 - Being picky in applying for PEY jobs, interviewing for Synaptive Medical 1:50 - Canada Wide Science Fair, research background, ending up doing research and getting an interest in biology 5:15 - What Synaptive Medical does - robotic surgery 7:20 - What it means to work in quality: minimizing risk 10:57 - Learning curve working on a high tech product 12:45 - Learning to code 15:32 - Good days, bad days - bad day at work, burnout, learning to meditate 21:04 - Applying for research exchange through the CIE 22:20 - Improving fitting practices for contact lenses in Liverpool, for the BBC reporters! 25:30 - Travelling and travel blogging, hitting 20 countries over the summer, Headspace 28:07 - Learning to do IP inside a company and how that’s different from doing that at a law firm 34:05 - What you have to do to become a patent agent, and how an engineering background is useful for it 38:00 - Changes in plans to go to grad school, design + research based masters 41:15 - Giving a TEDx talk in Collingwood and working on outreach and having engineers share their stories Links: 1. Ready Set Zen travel blog - https://readysetzen.me/ 2. Headspace - https://www.headspace.com/headspace-meditation-app 3. Isowater - https://www.isowater.com/ 4. Sam's TEDx talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH6vjvyXjFs 5. Email Sam at samantha.stuart@mail.utoronto.ca Music by Shawn Lee
Up this week is Sam Stuart, our first MSE student! She did her PEY at Synaptive Medical and did a research exchange in Liverpool, while also doing some intellectual property consulting on the side.
Notes
0:00 - Being picky in applying for PEY jobs, interviewing for Synaptive Medical
1:50 - Canada Wide Science Fair, research background, ending up doing research and getting an interest in biology
5:15 - What Synaptive Medical does - robotic surgery
7:20 - What it means to work in quality: minimizing risk
10:57 - Learning curve working on a high tech product
12:45 - Learning to code
15:32 - Good days, bad days - bad day at work, burnout, learning to meditate
21:04 - Applying for research exchange through the CIE
22:20 - Improving fitting practices for contact lenses in Liverpool, for the BBC reporters!
25:30 - Travelling and travel blogging, hitting 20 countries over the summer, Headspace
28:07 - Learning to do IP inside a company and how that’s different from doing that at a law firm
34:05 - What you have to do to become a patent agent, and how an engineering background is useful for it
38:00 - Changes in plans to go to grad school, design + research based masters
41:15 - Giving a TEDx talk in Collingwood and working on outreach and having engineers share their stories
Links
Email Sam at samantha.stuart@mail.utoronto.ca
Music by Shawn Lee