PROSPER-BME
The PROSPER-BME Professional Development and Mentoring Program
Are you interested in expanding your network?
Are you a first year undergraduate BME student at TAMU?
Join us today!
Fall 2025 Workshop
You don’t want to miss our upcoming Fall 2025 workshop. More details coming soon.
The PROSPER—BME (Promoting Relationships, Opportunities, and Success in Professional Engineering and Research—Biomedical Engineering) is a professional development and mentoring program designed to advance the academic and professional success of undergraduate students in their first-year majoring in Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University.
Our goal is to encourage community and professional development in this fast-growing field. To that end, we offer a one-day professional development workshop featuring Biomedical Engineers working across Academic, Government, and Industry, as well as evidence-based activities/resources for academic and professional success. Many of our panelists are Biomedical Engineering Aggie alumni. Further, PROSPER—BME participants will be matched with near-peer mentors (i.e., Postdocs, graduate students, and/or advanced undergraduates) at Texas A&M University.
There is no charge to participate so that we can be sure that there are no barriers to participation. PROSPER—BME is open to all undergraduates in their first-year majoring in Biomedical Engineering. This project is funded by the National Institutes of Health.
If you have any questions regarding the workshop, please reach out to Shay Morales at prosperbme@tamu.edu
“It was great for forming connections and learning more about different careers in BMEN!”
If you are interested in participating in this workshop, please reach out to our project manager, Shay Morales, at prosperbme@tamu.edu
Project Principal Investigators
Daniel Alge, PhD
Title: Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Programs
Affiliation: Department of Biomedical Engineering in the College of Engineering at Texas A&M University.
Research Interest: Dr. Daniel L. Alge’s research is in biomaterials with an emphasis on applications in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. However, his interests span from fundamental studies on biomaterial chemistry and characterization to translational research.
Paul R. Hernandez, PhD
Title: Associate Professor
Affiliation: Department of Teaching, Learning and Culture (TLAC) in the College of Education and Human Development at Texas A&M University.
Research Interest: Dr. Paul Hernandez’s research focuses on how mentorship and mastery experiences promote using effective learning strategies and the regulation motivation, which are to success in higher education.
Megan Patterson, PhD
Title: Associate Professor
Affiliation: Department of Health Behavior in the School of Public Health at Texas A&M University.
Research Interest: Dr. Meg Patterson’s research focuses on how social connections, positions, and networks impact the health and well-being of individuals and communities.
Project Team
Linlin Luo, PhD
Title: Research Scientist
Affiliation: Department of Teaching, Learning and Culture (TLAC) in the College of Education and Human Development at Texas A&M University.
Shaylen Morales
Title: Project Manager
Affiliation: Department of Teaching, Learning and Culture (TLAC) in the College of Education and Human Development at Texas A&M University.
Kiara Perez-Ponce
Title: Ph.D. Student
Affiliation: Department of Biomedical Engineering in the College of Engineering at Texas A&M University.
Joseph Tise, PhD
Title: Senior Education Researcher
Affiliation: Institute for Advancing Computing Education