{"id":8907,"date":"2016-01-12T08:20:14","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T13:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/?p=8907"},"modified":"2016-01-12T08:20:14","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T13:20:14","slug":"qa-thomas-keady-18","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/news\/qa-thomas-keady-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&A: Thomas Keady ’18"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thomas Keady ’18 is a design engineer at Fusiform<\/a>, makers of a modular orthotics device and software platform designed to cut down on cost and time of manufacturing. Fusiform was recently awarded funding<\/a> through AccelerateBaltimore<\/a>, <\/em>an initiative of the Abell Foundation and ETC(Emerging Technology Centers), Baltimore’s award-winning incubator.<\/em><\/p>\n

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How did you become interested in electrical and computer engineering?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was the little green boards inside computers and other electronics I opened up as a kid. They just looked cool! I wanted to know how they work.<\/p>\n

What made you choose Johns Hopkins University?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The people. Each person is really driven about something and doing amazing work on it. I love talking with other students about their projects.<\/p>\n

How did you get involved with Fusiform? What’s your role?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I had a friend who knew Alex, one of the founders. I built a portable force sensing platform to collect data on the forces experienced by orthotic devices when in use. Next I’m going to learn how to program robots to manufacture our orthotics.<\/p>\n

What are you most interested in learning through AccelerateBaltimore?<\/strong><\/p>\n

As an engineer working at a startup, I want to learn how to most effectively use our limited monetary resources for both producing our product and research and development.<\/p>\n

What kind of impact do you hope to make as an engineer?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Engineering introduces you to a whole new world of great toys. But I find it even more enjoyable that you can make life better for people. Who doesn’t want to improve people’s mobility with cheaper, more effective prosthetics, faster?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-8907","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nQ&A: Thomas Keady '18 - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/news\/qa-thomas-keady-18\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Q&A: Thomas Keady '18 - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Thomas Keady '18 is a design engineer at Fusiform, makers of a modular orthotics device and software platform designed to cut down on cost and time of manufacturing.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/news\/qa-thomas-keady-18\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Q&A: Thomas Keady '18 - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/news\/qa-thomas-keady-18\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Q&A: Thomas Keady '18 - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering","og_description":"Thomas Keady '18 is a design engineer at Fusiform, makers of a modular orthotics device and software platform designed to cut down on cost and time of manufacturing.","og_url":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/news\/qa-thomas-keady-18\/","og_site_name":"Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/news\/qa-thomas-keady-18\/","url":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/news\/qa-thomas-keady-18\/","name":"Q&A: Thomas Keady '18 - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/news\/qa-thomas-keady-18\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/news\/qa-thomas-keady-18\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"","datePublished":"2016-01-12T13:20:14+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/news\/qa-thomas-keady-18\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/news\/qa-thomas-keady-18\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/news\/qa-thomas-keady-18\/#primaryimage","url":"","contentUrl":""},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/news\/qa-thomas-keady-18\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"News","item":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Q&A: Thomas Keady ’18"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/#website","url":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/","name":"Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering","description":"Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"}]}},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/8907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}