{"id":1300,"date":"2022-04-05T17:02:14","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T17:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/?p=1300"},"modified":"2022-04-11T22:26:53","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T22:26:53","slug":"meet-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/2022\/04\/05\/meet-joy\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joy is a white woman attending a midwestern university. Her major combines computer, electrical, and mechanical engineering, and her ideal career will include elements of biomedical engineering. Although she was homeschooled from kindergarten to high school, she was very involved in her local robotics team and made it to the world competition, experiences she links to her later success as an engineering student. She also became interested in prosthetic design from a friend, and through multiple internships has gotten hands-on experiences in a variety of design challenges:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>One of the other students there has a family friend who mentioned that their parents had gotten in a car accident and were going through the process of getting prosthetics because they had to be amputated. And I was like, &#8220;Wow, that&#8217;s crazy.&#8221; But also, like, &#8220;Can you tell me a little bit more about the prosthetics that they&#8217;re getting?&#8221; \u2026During my job shadow, he was able to fix something on his patients\u2019 leg and put it back on their leg and they were able to walk out\u2026. They said that they&#8217;re looking for interns, so I&#8217;m hoping that I will be able to work there this summer.<\/p><cite>From Joy\u2019s first interview<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The image below is a journey map that Joy created summarizing some of the highs and lows from her second year as an engineering student.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"727\" height=\"399\" src=\"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/joy-map.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/joy-map.jpg 727w, https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/joy-map-300x165.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 727px) 100vw, 727px\" \/><figcaption>Joy\u2019s second-semester, second-year journey map.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Want to learn more about Joy\u2019s journey? Check out her tag <a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/tag\/joy\/\">here<\/a> (or by clicking the \u2018Joy\u2019 tag below) to see quotes from her interviews over the years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joy is a white woman attending a midwestern university. Her major combines computer, electrical, and mechanical engineering, and her ideal career will include elements of biomedical engineering. Although she was homeschooled from kindergarten to high school, she was very involved in her local robotics team and made it to the world competition, experiences she links [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1298,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,39],"tags":[18,106],"class_list":["post-1300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-joy","category-participants","tag-introduction","tag-joy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1300"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1485,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions\/1485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}