More about My Experience<\/h3><\/p>\nFrancisco Sanchez-Morales is from Haitillo, P.R. He chose a degree in STEM because it gives him \u201cthe opportunity to impact the community around me even well before finishing my degree.\u201d As an engineering student, he has gotten a lot of opportunities to work on projects and outreach events for his community. Sanchez-Morales originally expected his STEM classes to be math and science heavy classes that required a lot of prior knowledge. Since then, he has realized that most of the workload comes from extracurricular projects and jobs outside of school assignments. This has been by far more enjoyable than Sanchez expected college life to be.<\/p>\n
Summer 2018,<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>Sanchez-Morales worked at Stephen Forrest\u2019s lab at the University of Michigan in the pattering of parelyn to eventually use it in the pattering of cells. This experience motivated him to pursue a PhD in a field where he can combine his knowledge in robotics and science with his passion of helping others.<\/p>\nSummer 2019,\u00a0<\/strong>Sanchez-Morales worked at Prof. Thomas Bifano\u2019s lab developing a setup to measure the effects of mechanical stimulation on heart tissue.\u00a0His project consisted of designing an enclosure that allowed the long exposure of tissue cell to mechanical stimulation, while simultaneously\u00a0imaging the sample. The purpose\u00a0was to identify changes any changes in the behaviour of the tissue after it had been mechanically stimulated at different\u00a0frequencies for various time\u00a0periods.<\/span><\/p>\nOverall, Sanchez Morales wished to eventually impact more people through his work and research. His advice to future participants is to \u201clearn as much as you can from the entire experience, not just from the research project.\u201d<\/p>\n
After completing the research experience, Francisco also completed his BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez. He is currently pursuing his PhD in Mechanical Engineering with Prof. Bifano as his advisor.<\/p>\n
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Francisco Sanchez-Morales is from Haitillo, P.R. He chose a degree in STEM because it gives him \u201cthe opportunity to impact the community around me even well before finishing my degree.\u201d As an engineering student, he has gotten a lot of opportunities to work on projects and outreach events for his community. Sanchez-Morales originally expected his STEM classes to be math and science heavy classes that required a lot of prior knowledge. Since then, he has realized that most of the workload comes from extracurricular projects and jobs outside of school assignments. This has been by far more enjoyable than Sanchez expected college life to be.<\/p>\n
Summer 2018,<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>Sanchez-Morales worked at Stephen Forrest\u2019s lab at the University of Michigan in the pattering of parelyn to eventually use it in the pattering of cells. This experience motivated him to pursue a PhD in a field where he can combine his knowledge in robotics and science with his passion of helping others.<\/p>\n Summer 2019,\u00a0<\/strong>Sanchez-Morales worked at Prof. Thomas Bifano\u2019s lab developing a setup to measure the effects of mechanical stimulation on heart tissue.\u00a0His project consisted of designing an enclosure that allowed the long exposure of tissue cell to mechanical stimulation, while simultaneously\u00a0imaging the sample. The purpose\u00a0was to identify changes any changes in the behaviour of the tissue after it had been mechanically stimulated at different\u00a0frequencies for various time\u00a0periods.<\/span><\/p>\n Overall, Sanchez Morales wished to eventually impact more people through his work and research. His advice to future participants is to \u201clearn as much as you can from the entire experience, not just from the research project.\u201d<\/p>\n After completing the research experience, Francisco also completed his BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez. He is currently pursuing his PhD in Mechanical Engineering with Prof. Bifano as his advisor.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24547,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cell-met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/6289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cell-met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cell-met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cell-met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24547"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cell-met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/6289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7175,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cell-met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/6289\/revisions\/7175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cell-met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n