Hard as nails

摘要

An education in mechanical engineering can take you down unexpected career paths, and many of them lead to specialist fields dotted with innovations just waiting to be dug up. One such field of buried treasures is medicine, and one such innovation is the bone quality test (BQT) for detecting osteoporosis. Ernie Poku, founder of Crescent Diagnostics - the company responsible for developing BQT - is part of an increasing trend of engineers deploying their expertise to solve medical problems.