Rachel Clipp

About Rachel Clipp

Dr. Rachel Clipp earned a PhD in Biomedical Engineer from the joint program at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University. Her work focused on developing dynamic boundary conditions for use in a custom finite element analysis tool. Boundary conditions developed were used to predict the effects of respiration on the pulmonary vasculature. She also developed a bench top apparatus to perfuse and ventilate excised lamb lungs to collect hemodynamic and respiratory data for validation of the dynamic boundary conditions. While studying for her doctorate, Rachel also earned a mentored teaching assistantship to develop new labs and coursework to teach biomedical engineering undergraduates programming skills and physiology. Rachel has worked on a wide range of modeling and simulation problems. These projects include modeling the microvasculature of the liver for prediction of microsphere delivery to tumors, modeling the cerebral microvasculature to represent the effects of traumatic brain injury, and whole body physiology modeling in the form of lumped parameters models. Rachel served as the Lead Physiology Modeler on the TATRC-funded BioGears project, where she led development of physiology models to represent different organ systems and feedback mechanisms in the human body. She is now a Technical Leader at Kitware, Inc, At Kitware, Rachel works to grow computational modeling projects in the government and commercial sectors. She leads a team of computational modelers and software developers on the open source computational physiology platform, the Pulse Physiology Engine.

Experience

1. Kitware Inc

   Present

Education

• The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Biomedical Engineering

  2005 — 2010

• Clemson University

  BS, Mechanical Engineering

  1999 — 2004

• North Carolina State University

  MS, PhD, Biomedical Engineering

  2005 — 2010

Skills

• Design for Manufacturing
• Cfd
• C++
• Mechanical Engineering
• Biomedical Engineering
• Equipment Design
• Java
• Characterization
• Numerical Methods
• Engineering
• Computational Fluid Dynamics
• Signal Processing
• Simulink
• Microsoft Office
• Finite Element Analysis
• Fortran
• Simulations
• Fluid Dynamics
• Biomechanics
• Data Processing/Analysis
• Objective-C
• Mathematical Modeling
• Mechanical Testing
• Experimentation
• Design of Experiments
• Matlab
• Visual Studio
• R&D
• Image Processing
• Xcode
• Experimental Design
• Programming
• Statistics
• Sensors
• Solidworks
• Technical Writing