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'''Serving as UIF Since: '''Spring 2018 [[File:Jessica Aldrich2.jpg]]<br/>'''School:'''Wichita State University<br/>'''What does she do now:''' Masters in Biomedical Engineering, WUIFx program director<br/>'''What that means:''' Developed an empathy based design thinking curriculum to empower high school students to make positive change in our community while completing my graduate studies
'''Contact her about:''' Design thinking workshops, facilitating design competitions, high school programming, relational leadership, trying to do too many things at once.<br/>'''E-Mail:'''jxaldrich@gmail.com<br/>'''Phone:''' 785-250-3916
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<br/> Jessica Aldrich is a University Innovation Fellow at Wichita State University. She is a masters student in Biomedical Engineering and received her BS from Wichita State in May 2018. During her undergraduate career, Jessica studied Biomedical Engineering with minors in Math and General Business. She spent her freshman year as a student athlete playing volleyball at Avila University before transferring to Wichita State. After graduation, Jessica spent the summer working on her thesis and spent a few weeks in Europe taking a course in design from the University of Twente.
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As a UIF on campus Jessica was involved in hosting the Midwest Regional Meetup that was held in February 2018. During that time she also facilitated the Invent for the Planet design competition. After completing her UIF training in March, she facilitated numerous design thinking workshops on campus and guest lectured in courses through the Bill and Dorothy Cohen Honors College. Additionally she ran the 32-Second Challenge, a pop-up design thinking experience for students from diverse backgrounds on campus. She attended the Utah Valley Regional Meetup, the European Regional meetup, and the Colorado School of Mines regional meetup as well as presented at the ASEE National Meeting in 2018.
Currently, Jessica is developing and running an empathy-based design thinking program for local high school students to empower them to create positive change in their community. She is also working to bring Start-Up Grind U to campus in fall 2018. Additionally, Jessica has hosted workshops and guest lectured at events and in classes through University admissions and the Honors College.