{"id":12036,"date":"2020-05-13T10:28:44","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T15:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cecs\/?page_id=12036"},"modified":"2025-04-14T15:01:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T20:01:23","slug":"meet-ian","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cecs\/meet-ian\/","title":{"rendered":"-Meet Ian"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"w-full xl:container mx-auto px-6\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11121 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cecs\/files\/McKnight.png\" alt=\"Ian McKnight\" width=\"140\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Ian McKnight<\/h2>\n<p><a title=\"Biomedical Engineering\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cecs\/biomedical-engineering\/biomedical-engineering-bs\/\">Biomedical Engineering<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why did you choose Biomedical Engineering as your major?<\/strong><br \/>\nAs long as I can remember, I\u2019ve always been fascinated by science and mathematics, so I knew from a young age that I wanted to pursue a career in STEM. I also suffer from many food, environmental, and animal allergies, and it is thanks to the efforts of biomedical engineers and other medical professionals that I am able to engage properly with the world around me\u2014after many years of various treatments. I chose biomedical engineering as my major because I want to help those with allergies like I was helped, in order to bring them a better quality of life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why did you choose to attend Marshall University?<\/strong><br \/>\nI was incredibly fortunate to receive the Yeager Scholarship\u2014Marshall University\u2019s most prestigious scholarship award\u2014which made my decision to attend Marshall extremely easy. Simply put, I couldn\u2019t pass up the chance to cultivate myself into a more well-rounded individual with opportunities to study abroad in Madrid and Oxford, even as I focused on furthering my career in biomedical engineering. Thankfully, although our coursework is quite rigorous, the Biomedical Engineering program here is flexible enough for me to engage in other subjects I enjoy, such as creative writing and Spanish. Beyond that, Marshall is relatively close to home for me, but far enough away that I can relish my independence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What has been your favorite Biomedical Engineering class as a student and why?<\/strong><br \/>\nMy favorite Biomedical Engineering class so far was probably one of the Bioengineering labs. I immensely enjoyed learning how to operate many pieces of biomedical laboratory equipment that I will frequently use throughout my career in the future; I also cherished the critical thinking skills and laboratory \u201cknow-how\u201d required to complete our various research projects. Above all else, I felt that what we did in the class was entirely relevant and would play a monumental role in making me more competent for my future endeavors as a biomedical engineer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you plan to do after graduation? <\/strong><br \/>\nAfter graduation, I plan on committing a year or two of service to either the Peace Corps or Engineers Without Borders. After this, I intend on pursuing a master\u2019s degree (and ultimately a PhD) in biomedical engineering, with an emphasis on allergy research, in hopes of aiding those with allergies like me.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian McKnight Biomedical Engineering Why did you choose Biomedical Engineering as your major? As long as I can remember, I\u2019ve always been fascinated by science and mathematics, so I knew from a young age that I wanted to pursue a career in STEM. I also suffer from many food, environmental, and animal allergies, and it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":689,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-legacy.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12036","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/689"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12036"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14397,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12036\/revisions\/14397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}