Allyiah Gomez

Allyiah Gomez put her stellar critical thinking and problem-solving skills to use while studying biomedical engineering at the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. 

“I knew this major was for me because I was able to design something out of nothing and create an impact in people’s lives from my creation,” Gomez says.

She embraced communities that would cultivate her curiosity, such as the Grand Challenge Scholars Program and Barrett, The Honors College. She served as the public relations chair for the Society of Women in Engineering and as an undergraduate teaching assistant. She volunteered at Paz de Cristo, Feed My Starving Children and the Maricopa County Medical Examiner’s Office, and she interned at the Synapse Internship Program with Mayo Clinic.

“Each program I was involved in helped me learn something new about myself and challenged my critical thinking and problem-solving skills,” she says. “I’m particularly proud of my involvement with the Synapse Internship Program initiated by Mayo Clinic. Our team was five out of 25 students chosen from our major, and we worked side-by-side with physicians to engineer a device to prevent drug diversion in hospital settings.”

To further her knowledge and community impact, Gomez participated in multiple Engineering Projects in Community Service initiatives. She has since worked as a prototype engineer and designed 3D printed dental implants for rural communities that had limited access to dental care, and constructed a customized snowboard for a bilateral amputee. This spring, she will travel to Kenya to introduce offline digital libraries to children in Africa who have limited access to books.

She extends her gratitude to Michael Sobrado, a lab manager in the School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering, part of the Fulton Schools, for being pivotal in shaping her goals and inspiring her to become a biomedical engineer.

Gomez plans to stay in Arizona after graduation and work for a startup company to design and develop cardiac catheters.

Read about other exceptional graduates of the Fulton Schools’ spring 2025 class here.