About Grace
Grace Varughese is currently a senior bioengineering student at the University of Pittsburgh. Her primary interest is medical product design, and its utility in improving patient care. In the future, she aspires to develop devices, which better aid the care team in order to reduce patient recovery time and post-surgical complications. She also has interest in manufacturing devices and speeding up the entire process.
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This past year she worked as a Research and Development (R&D) engineering co-op at Becton Dickinson and Company, better known as BD. She was fortunate to have learned different aspects of the job such as designing mechanical fixtures for R&D testing, developing test method strategies for FDA remediation, helping engineers with customer complaint issues, and performing mechanical testing using various lab equipment. Her job experience has only strengthened her desire to want to continue to work in the medical device industry post-graduation.
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In her free time, she loves to try different kinds of foods, spend quality time with friends, and watch all types of films. She is very passionate about dance, and is trained in styles such as hip hop, jazz, Bollywood fusion, and Indian classical dance. She choreographs and performs dance pieces, which tell stories ranging from social issues to the complexity of human emotions; an art form she hopes will resonate with her viewers.
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Regardless if its engineering or dance, she views both as creative processes, which expand the mind to think unconventionally. She hopes her passion for both fields can be incorporated into a project one day.