Michelle Morin: Graduate Teaching Assistant in Knoxville, TN

- Instruct biweekly recitations for a 2-semester engineering physics course - Oversee approximately 100 students per semester - Promoted after first year to lead position, supervising 4 additional teaching assistants - Hold daily office hours including homework assistance, exam review, and concept explanations - Gained familiarity with Myers Brigg’s typologies for effective group dynamics - Plan and instruct biweekly recitation sessions (reviews, labs, demonstrations, projects) - Grade homework and exams - Assist professors with administrative/organizational tasks - Able to present course concepts in alternative formats

- Led a group of senior biomedical engineering students in the ideation, plan, design, budget, prototype, test, and market of an innovative medical device - Completed an NIH-funded, team design project over 9 months and $2,500 budget - Effective communication with medical professionals who served as project stakeholders - Gained experience with FDA regulations, intellectual property protection, the design process, 3D design software, and 3D printing - Competed in NIBIB’s “DEBUT” Undergraduate Team Design Challenge

- Volkswagen Distinguished Scholars Program - Research conducted at Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility - Investigated the feasibility of highly customized prosthetics and orthotics for wounded veterans using 3D scanning and 3D printing technologies - Familiarization with Faro ScanArm 3D laser metrology for reverse engineering, large and small-scale additive manufacturing (3D printing) of polymer and metallic systems, materials characterization, GD&T, injection molding, point cloud data transformation - Participated in research poster symposium

Summer employment between academic years

- Musculoskeletal modeling and simulation using OpenSim - Sports biomechanics