Kaylee Herrig works to improve prosthetic access worldwide.
Kaylee Herrig set out early on her engineering journey, building LEGO® creations and STEM projects throughout elementary school. But it was an “aha” moment in seventh grade that solidified her path — a news story about a man receiving an artificial hand.
“I realized you could apply the fundamentals of engineering to solve the problem of a lost limb,” she says. “When I learned I could study this in college, I thought this is the way I can help the world.”
Now a senior at Iowa State, Kaylee is pursuing a degree in mechanical engineering with a biomedical engineering minor. Her passion extends from the classroom to the bionics lab of Kerri Haen, teaching professor in genetics, development, and cell biology.
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