Bioengineering-a natural area for multi-disciplinary education
Engineers are trained to understand complex technical systems. The only efficient way to prepare the next generation of engineers for fulfillment of their main goal is by combining curricula from different departments and to create a new curriculum that allows for education of experts who have competence in various fields.Bioengineering is the fastest growing specialty at engineering schools that offer such programs, and the bio side is getting more and more attention in the curriculum. Students attracted to bioengineering are the very best, the most talentedof their class.The Lehigh University Bioengineering program aims to provide educational opportunities for students with interest in Biophannaceutical Engineering, Bioelectronic/Photonics, and Cell and Tissue Engineering. The program provides a unique learning environment for students interested in the interdisciplinary areas of life sciences and engineering to understand problems that are at the interface of the biological and non-biological systems. The students in the bioengineering program are provided with ample opportunities to interact with faculties from a broad background of sciences and engineering, researchers from industry and practitioners from hospitals. The closely faculty-mentored, learner-based and longitudinally integrated experimental learning (LIEL) environment spans from day one to the commencement. Students work on team research projects in one of the three focused areas starting from the summer after the sophomore year.The Bioengineering Program is the center of excellence at the interface between the engineering, medicine, and life and physical sciences. As such it is the key for the development of the multidisciplinary research projects in biomedical engineering.The paper discusses how we are using collaborative efforts and engineering principles to develop a new program for bioengineering students that will help to decipher the intricacies of cell signaling, to develop new imaging technologies, to understand the effects of dynamic loading on a human system and other current problems on the interface of biology and engineering
Bioengineering Multi-disciplinary Education
Arkady Voloshin
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, Bioengineering Program, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015, USA
国际会议
上海
英文
119-121
2006-08-17（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）