Lindsay Wendel Selected for Bruce Helfert Memorial Award
Lindsay Wendel
Lindsay Wendel, who recently completed her junior year in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, has been selected to receive this year's Bruce Helfert Memorial Award.
The Bruce Helfert Memorial Award is awarded each year to an outstanding junior in the College of Engineering or College of Science. The award was made possible by a gift from Bruce Helfert’s mother, Mrs. Sylvia Helfert.
Lindsay is a true scholar in every sense of the word. She has received Dean’s List and Semester Honors every semester, and has already earned several academic awards and honors, including: the Purdue University Academic Success Award, Richard T. Hartzell Engineering Scholarship, the Charles Wayne Sullivan BME Outstanding Sophomore Scholarship, and induction into Purdue's chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. Lindsay continues to receive recognition for her hard work and dedication. Within the past month she has received the Society of Women in Engineering (SWE) Boeing Corporate Award, SWE Outstanding Chair award, and a Purdue Engineering Student Council EXPO scholarship.
Lindsay is currently an undergraduate research participant under the direction of Eric Nauman, Associate Professor of BME and ME. Her research focuses on mechanical testing of cell-seeded tendon replacement scaffolds. She is also a two year participant in the National Science Foundation program in Quantitative Physiology. She has participated in designing mentoring activities for middle and high school students to introduce them to the field of Quantitative Physiology. Additionally, simplified versions of these activities will be part of Spring Fest and Lindsay hopes to present these activities at her local high school as well.
She will spend summer of 2010 applying her biomedical engineering knowledge at Roche Diagnostics.