Boise State UniversityNorthwest Tissue Mechanics Labratory – Graduate Research Assistant
Aug. 2013 - Dec. 2015Boise, Idaho Area- Developed and performed first experiment for measuring fatigue in fibrocartilage (soft tissue) - Published first bi-directional, tensile experiments for fatigue behavior of soft tissues
- Wrote software to apply advanced statistical models to predict catastrophic tissue failure - Designed custom mechanical hardware, sensors, and machine vision systems halving specimen variability for best in the bio-mechanics fields