A fourth-year biomedical engineering student has been recognized as the top Waterloo Engineering co-op student for his work with an organization dedicated to improving health care in East Africa.
Eric Jihoon Song worked as a software developer during spring term last year at Maisha Meds on an application to allow customers in Kenya to buy needed pharmaceuticals.
Eric Jihoon Song is the top co-op student at Waterloo Engineering for 2019.
His contributions included improving the old app by redesigning its basic data models to target user complaints, help with future scalability and ensure full backward compatibility.
For his Capstone Design project, Song is now interested in tackling how the climate in East Africa affects the quality and effectiveness of drugs, a notable problem in the region.
Song is one of six - one for each faculty - Co-op Student of the Year Award recipients for 2019.
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