Jocelyne Espinoza

Jocelyne Espinoza chose to study biomedical engineering at the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University because she wanted to make a tangible impact on patients’ quality of life by creating community-focused solutions.

“I knew I wanted to be part of an institution where my creativity would be uplifted and I would be motivated by the community around me,” Espinoza says. “Engineering encourages you to continue to break barriers in human knowledge, create solutions from scratch and challenge the status quo!”

Espinoza recalls always having a desire to help people through the medical field and was pleasantly surprised to discover her passion for engineering during high school.

She was initially wowed by the vast range of sub-disciplines and industries accessible through biomedical engineering and opted to immerse herself fully by joining Barrett, the Honors College and the Grand Challenges Scholars Program, or GCSP. 

During her time at ASU, she participated in Engineering Projects in Community Service initiatives that developed a pin-lock prosthetic for an army veteran and worked on a coral reef restoration project in Barcelona. She served as a student researcher in the Locomotion Research Laboratory, as a counselor at E2 and as an undergraduate teaching assistant.

Her capstone project on a post-partum hemorrhage detection device led to her filing a provisional patent, which she deems her proudest achievement.

“It means so much for me to break into the FemTech community and increase the percentage of medical research specific to women,” Espinoza says. “Our project affects everyone in the population and has the capability of saving lives.”

She extends her gratitude to Aaron Blank, a research and development engineer at Innovative Health, for teaching her to be confident in her skills and to interpret failure as motivation.

“I was challenged to strengthen my technical and leadership skills,” she says. “I feel that I’ve grown into a more confident person and engineer. I’ve learned what it means to be a true leader.”

After graduation, Espinoza will be working as a regulatory affairs associate at BD.

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