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After doing projects and internships in the automotive industry for the EPA and Ford Motor Company while an undergrad in Mechanical Engineering at Michigan, Sakib did an independent research project on a minimally-invasive cardiovascular surgical device in his final semester.  He enjoyed the project so much that he decided to pursue a graduate degree in Biomedical Engineering.

Sakib worked at Ethicon Endo-Surgery, a Johnson & Johnson Company in Cincinnati, for eight months after graduating.  He was a design engineer on a project for a surgical scalpel that simultaneously cuts tissue and coagulates vessels with ultrasonic vibrations of the blade. Through this job and his previous research project, he became very interested medical devices that make surgical procedures less invasive and reduce the patient’s recovery time.  After returning to Michigan for graduate school, he started working with Dr. Thomas Wang to design and develop microendoscopes, which allow microscopic imaging of internal tissue structures noninvasively through an endoscope.  Once he is done with graduate school Sakib hopes to pursue a career in academia, as he loves research and teaching.