OUR OUTSTANDING STUDENTS
Biomedical Engineering
Class of 2009
Department Citation for Outstanding Academic Achievement:
Justin Chen
Justin exemplifies excellence as a biomedical engineer. Justin's scholastic excellence is evidenced by his 3.98 GPA, including 19 A+s. He has been on the Dean's list every quarter of his undergraduate career.
Besides course work, Justin has worked as an undergraduate researcher in the Orthopedic Biomechanics Laboratory directed by Professor Maury Hull for the past two years. During this period, he has worked on two independent projects. One is a clinical project to determine the amount of distal femoral bone to remove so that extension would be restored in total knee reconstruction patients. The other is retrospective project determining the varus/valgus alignment of the implanted components in the coronal plane following total knee arthroplasty. He is the 2nd author on the paper that has been submitted to Journal of Arthoplasty, a respected peer-reviewed journal in the field of total joint replacement. Another paper with Justin as the lead author is also in preparation for submission to a peer-reviewed journal.
Department Citation for Outstanding Undergraduate Research:
Justin Chen
Justin Chen has worked in the Orthopedic Biomechanics Laboratory directed by Professor Maury Hull for two years. He has worked approximately 10 hours per week. Professor Hull describes Justin as “the most capable undergraduate student in research” during the past 6 years.
Because of his demonstrated abilities, Justin was assigned his own independent research projects. One of these was a prospective clinical project to determine the amount of distal femoral bone to remove so that extension would be restored in total knee reconstruction patients. This required participation in all phases of an experimental research project which included planning the project, designing specialized equipment to conduct experiments, fabricating parts in the machine shop, using these parts in the operating room, writing software to analyze the data, performing data analysis, and assisting with writing the paper. Justin is the 2nd authors of the paper entitled “An In Vivo Study of the Effect of Distal Femoral Resection on Passive Knee Extension” that has been submitted for publication to the Journal of Arthoplasty, which is a respected peer-reviewed journal in the field of total joint replacement.
Currently, Justin is working on a second independent research project, which is a retrospective project determining the varus/valgus alignment of the implanted components in the coronal plane following total knee arthroplasty. Justin is the lead author of the paper entitled “Coronal Alignment of 400 Kinematically Aligned Custom-Fit Total Knee Arthroplasties” that is under preparation for publication in a peer-reviewed journal.
In summary, Justin is extremely intelligent, highly motivated, responsible, and technically skilled. Through his outstanding work, he has advanced the science related to orthopedic health care and his accomplishments promise to benefit large numbers of patients receiving total knee replacements. Justin highly deserves the Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award.
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