I'm a final-year MEng Biomedical Engineering student at Imperial. What keeps drawing me back is the gap between what engineering can do and how much of it actually reaches patients, particularly in orthopaedics. No formal industry experience in the field yet, but it's where I'm most motivated to build, especially around younger patients who are pushed towards invasive procedures when better alternatives might be possible with the right engineering.

SOLIDWORKS is more than a manufacturing tool for me. Animated assemblies, motion studies, and detailed technical drawings are how I communicate ideas to the people I'm working with, whether that's a biologist, a clinician, or someone without a CAD background. Showing someone how something moves or assembles often lands faster than any written description, and that translation matters as much to me as the design itself.

That said, there's a limit to what a model can tell you . Some of the most useful lessons have come from physically building a design and finding out where it actually fails. From tolerances that looked fine in CAD but bind in the print to mechanisms that feel wrong in the hand even when the motion study looks clean. I've started treating physical prototyping as part of the design loop rather than a validation step at the end, because the faults you find that way are usually the ones you wouldn't have thought to simulate.

AI is more important now than it's ever been, and I use it that way. Not as a substitute for judgement, but to compress the time between an idea and a usable result. Literature, writing, code, documentation — the best outputs come from pairing strong technical instincts with the ability to move quickly, and AI is what makes that possible at a scale it wasn't before.

Years volunteering in a GP practice and a pharmacy have made the shortcomings in orthopaedic care feel concrete, not abstract. That experience is part of why I care about this area, and it's made me more serious about understanding the engineering that could address those gaps properly.

The role I'm looking for is one where I can contribute and keep developing, ideally close to a clinical outcome. Open to feedback, willing to question my own assumptions, and motivated to build real expertise in orthopaedic and medical device engineering.