 My name is Ren Xiangtang. Right now, I'm on co-op with Cook Research. Here at Cook Research Incorporated, our co-ops are expected to work just as our full-time engineers are. They're given projects and deadlines. They are actively helping us achieve our goals to treat patients. I'm helping our bench team doing mechanical bench top testing to evaluate properties, both mechanical or chemical properties of cook device before they get into clinical trials. Ren is in her third term and right from the get-go when she was hired on we could tell she was a good student and she's always been a hard worker and came ready to learn and ready to work and throughout the last two terms she's always been ready to accept feedback and take that and implement it into her work. Now that she's the senior, really can operate with minimal oversight. At my VME lab, Biomedical Engineering Lab, they helped me equip with all kinds of material and mechanical testing skills for tests. So when I come here and they start talking about all kinds of cool studies to do I'm familiar with everything, like all the concepts they talk about. Purdue has a very strong focus in making sure their students are placed in positions once they graduate and the co-op program really helps them prepare for that. One thing I really like about a bench team is that when people have questions they'll just stand up in the middle of the aisle and then just ask questions and then people just throw in their thoughts that's relevant to answering the question and that helps inspire more and more answers. Co-ops we get from Purdue, we know we're going to be getting some good students most of them have been in about their junior year so they're really comfortable with the engineering principles and discussing the problems that we face in an engineering context. I think that's the benefit of being a co-op instead of an intern. I got to learn more, I got to see more and all the full times got to know about me more. As part of a unique co-op experience we do wellness walks together we sit down together at lunch, talk about cool stuff that we're working on and then the plans for the weekend so it's really a good way to know your peers know your friends outside of work.