Robin Black Snippet A

Biomedical Engineer Robin Black thinks he more-or-less stumbled into his career in Engineering. In high school, he didn't know anyone who was an engineer. He was interested in medicine because his father and grandfather had been medical doctors. He started a biology program at McMaster, but when he found out that no one from that program at McMaster ever got into medicine, he switched to engineering at Queen's. He worked summers at an orthopedic laboratory, building and installing an artificial knee, and then joined a group doing rehabilitation engineering at the Ontario Crippled Children's Centre– helping people.