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'''Serving as UIF Since:&nbsp; '''Spring 2018&nbsp; &nbsp; Jessica Aldrich is a graduate student at <br/>'''School:'''Wichita State University pursuing an accelerated <br/>'''What does she do now:'''&nbsp;Masters degree in Biomedical Engineering. She graduated in May 2018 Magna Cum Laude with a BS in Biomedical Engineering and minors in mathematics and general business. Jessica[[File, WUIFx program director<br/>'''What that means:Jessica Aldrich2.jpg|thumb]] is passionate about research and problem solving and has spent her time at WSU working in research labs within the Biomedical Engineering department. Her research has included topics such as biosensor development, machine learning, nanomedicine, and mechanobiology. Working in research has given her the opportunity to uncover and solve problems related to her work'''&nbsp; this has inspired her Developed an empathy based design thinking curriculum to translate that methodology empower high school students to problems and concerns on her campus. She has also been actively involved make positive change in the honors college, being awarded the Cohen Honors College Outstanding Senior award. our community while completing my graduate studies

'''Contact her about:'''&nbsp;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 [http://universityinnovation.org/images/4/42/Jessica_Aldrich2.jpg http://universityinnovation.org/images/4/42/Jessica_Aldrich2.jpg]<div><br/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; As an undergraduate Jessica Aldrich is a University Innovation Fellow at Wichita State University. She is a masters student, Aldrich has been involved in numerous organizations Biomedical Engineering and has taken on leadership roles within the received her BS from Wichita State in May 2018. During her undergraduate career, Jessica studied Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) with minors in Math and General Business. She spent her sororityfreshman year as a student athlete playing volleyball at Avila University before transferring to Wichita State. After graduation, Gamma Phi BetaJessica spent the summer working on her thesis and spent a few weeks in Europe taking a course in design from the University of Twente.&nbsp;<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; 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 time leading BMES 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 implemented ran the 32-Second Challenge, a mentoring 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.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Currently, Jessica is developing and running an empathy-based design thinking program that allowed college for local high school students to mentor high school seniors’ as they completed empower them to create positive change in their senior design projectscommunity. 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. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Outside of schoolUIF, she volunteers for Younglife and Jessica is invovled in a part variety of on campus activites. During her time as an undergraduate she was an executive team member of their regional leadership development program the Biomedical Engineering Society (Developing Future LeadersBMES), a member of Gamma Phi Beta, and was heavily involved with the honors college. She was is also inducted into Tau Beta Pipassionate about research and spent much of her time at WSU working in research labs and spent one summer doing an NSF REU. Her research experiences include biosensor development, machine learning, Order of Omegananomedicine, and mechanobiology. Working in research has given her the opportunity to uncover and solve problmes related to her work; this has inspired her to translate that methodology to problems and concerns on her campus. In her senior year she was awarded the University Senior Honor in her senior yearand the Cohen Honors College Outstanding Senior. Aldrich plans to pursue She volunteers regularly with Younglife and is a PhD in biomedical engineering following graduationpart of their Leadership Development Program (Developing Future Leaders).&nbsp;