Service Learning

  • Vanderbilt University

    BME class repairs medical equipment at 3 hospitals in Guatemala

    BME students Christia Victoriano and Noah Mallory operate on an electrosurgical foot pedal at one of three hospitals in Guatemala where they and classmates spent spring break repairing medical devices. For a class of biomedical engineering undergraduates spring break was about frayed wires, disconnected connectors and malfunctioning monitors rather than… Read More

    Mar. 25, 2020

  • Vanderbilt University

    BME students repair medical devices at Guatemala hospitals during spring break

    BME students Christia Victoriano and Noah Mallory operate on an electrosurgical foot pedal at one of three hospitals in Guatemala where they and classmates spent spring break repairing medical devices. For a class of biomedical engineering undergraduates spring break was about frayed wires, disconnected connectors and malfunctioning monitors rather than… Read More

    Mar. 19, 2018

  • Vanderbilt University

    Guatemala trip offers students ‘engineering in action’

    BME students Christia Victoriano and Noah Mallory operate on an electrosurgical foot pedal at one of three hospitals in Guatemala where they and classmates spent spring break repairing medical devices. For a class of biomedical engineering undergraduates spring break was about frayed wires, disconnected connectors and malfunctioning monitors rather than… Read More

    Mar. 17, 2014

  • Vanderbilt University

    Students’ Guatemala trip reveals medical needs

    BME students Christia Victoriano and Noah Mallory operate on an electrosurgical foot pedal at one of three hospitals in Guatemala where they and classmates spent spring break repairing medical devices. For a class of biomedical engineering undergraduates spring break was about frayed wires, disconnected connectors and malfunctioning monitors rather than… Read More

    Mar. 24, 2010

  • Vanderbilt University

    10 BME students to spend week working in Guatemalan hospitals

    BME students Christia Victoriano and Noah Mallory operate on an electrosurgical foot pedal at one of three hospitals in Guatemala where they and classmates spent spring break repairing medical devices. For a class of biomedical engineering undergraduates spring break was about frayed wires, disconnected connectors and malfunctioning monitors rather than… Read More

    Mar. 5, 2010

  • Vanderbilt University

    Student’s dynamo-powered otoscope delights doctors

    BME students Christia Victoriano and Noah Mallory operate on an electrosurgical foot pedal at one of three hospitals in Guatemala where they and classmates spent spring break repairing medical devices. For a class of biomedical engineering undergraduates spring break was about frayed wires, disconnected connectors and malfunctioning monitors rather than… Read More

    Feb. 24, 2009

  • Vanderbilt University

    Paschal’s New biomedical classes are ‘engineering in action’

    BME students Christia Victoriano and Noah Mallory operate on an electrosurgical foot pedal at one of three hospitals in Guatemala where they and classmates spent spring break repairing medical devices. For a class of biomedical engineering undergraduates spring break was about frayed wires, disconnected connectors and malfunctioning monitors rather than… Read More

    Feb. 24, 2009

  • Vanderbilt University

    12 BME students to spend week working in Guatemalan clinic, hospital

    BME students Christia Victoriano and Noah Mallory operate on an electrosurgical foot pedal at one of three hospitals in Guatemala where they and classmates spent spring break repairing medical devices. For a class of biomedical engineering undergraduates spring break was about frayed wires, disconnected connectors and malfunctioning monitors rather than… Read More

    Feb. 24, 2009