Chelsea Winkel
Principal User Experience Designer, MiniMed
Date: Friday, Sep. 18
Time: 1:30–2:20 p.m.
Location: SCOB 228
Faculty host: Mary Salcedo
Abstract
Biomedical engineering doesn’t have to lead to a single type of career. This talk shares a nontraditional journey from art and design into engineering product and user experience design experiences in medical technology. For students preparing to enter an increasingly interdisciplinary and AI-driven industry, we’ll look at how curiosity, communication, design, experimentation and human-centered thinking can expand the possibilities of what a biomedical engineer can become. Explore the skills needed to be the maker the world needs now.
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Chelsea Winkel is a product and user experience designer with 20 years of experience creating technology products around the needs of real people. Her career has taken a nontraditional path across design, consulting, entrepreneurship and medical technology, including designing healthcare systems and devices used by patients and clinicians. She is passionate about the intersection of technology, design and human behavior — and helping the next generation of engineers see possibilities beyond the traditional boundaries of their discipline.
