Category Archives: BioEngineering

4 Bioengineering Tools for Cardiovascular Applications October 18, 2011 By: tawkaw OpenCourseWare … Continue reading →

Dental Innovation Forum 2014 - Scientific Session (II) : Bioengineering and Stem Cells 1. Mesenchymal Stem Cells: From Clinics to Bench-top and Back. By: Professor. Shahid Siddique 2. The Effects of Metal Ions on Reducing Enamel Dissolution. By... By: uqudent … Continue reading →

Published: Friday, June 6, 2014 at 4:18 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, June 6, 2014 at 4:18 p.m. Many high school graduates who are going on to college have chosen to stay in Florida. But some are going away. And a few, like Vanguard High School graduate William Brown, are going very far away. After being accepted to the University of Pennsylvania, MIT and Northwestern University, Brown has decided to attend Stanford University and study engineering, possibly bio-engineering. A lot of my friends are going to UF. Some are going to FSU. Most of my friends wanted to stay in state, said Brown, who graduated Friday night. Some of his friends are going to Northwestern and Johns Hopkins. Brown might research tissues at Stanford and eventually work with biomedical devices, although that could change once he starts school. Ive always been really interested in math, which started for me in middle school, Brown said. Im going into Stanford as a bioengineering student, but that could change. Over the summer, Im applying for the Stanford Summer Engineering Academy. Im also interested in other engineering sciences. I like biology and engineering, but Im just not sure if bioengineering is what Im ultimately going … Continue reading →

Shruti Vasudev - Bioengineering Here we talk to one of our students Shruti Vasudev about her course, Bioengineering. By: ShefUniEng … Continue reading →

Clemson University 3-Minute Thesis 3rd Place (tie), 2014, Hobey Tam (Bioengineering) Hobey Tam, a PhD student in bioengineering at Clemson University, describes his research as part of the 3-Minute Thesis competition at Clemson. The title of his presentation is "A Better Way... By: Clemson GradSchool … Continue reading →

Led by Marius Gilbert -- Interfaculty School of Bioengineering , Universit libre de Bruxelles -- and Tim Robinson (ILRI, Kenya), an international researcher team established new global maps of livestock distribution. This study should help to measure the socio-economic, public health and environmental impacts of livestock and poultry, worldwide . The evaluation of multiple socio- economic, environmental and public health around the livestock sector requires accurate accessible and comprehensive spatial data on the distribution and abundance of livestock. A team of researchers led by Marius Gilbert, Research Associate of the FNRS -- Laboratory of Biological Control and Spatial Ecology ( LUBIES ) , Interfaculty School of Bioengineering ( EIB , Universit libre de Bruxelles) and Tim Robinson (International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya)publishes this week in PLoS ONE new global maps of livestock and poultry. The map data that accompany this publication are distributed in open access under " Creative Commons " license, and can be viewed or downloaded via the platform "Livestock Geo- wiki" ( http://www.livestock.geo-wiki.org / ). This platform will also be used to distribute updates that will regularly be generated as new census data becomes available. These data should help quantifying different types of impact of the … Continue reading →

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) on Thursday awarded a $1.9 million, four-year grant to Rice University to alter several of its introductory science courses to include strategies that have proven extraordinarily successful at increasing retention of science and engineering majors in Rices innovative hands-on global health technologies programs. The new grant is part of a $60 million effort HHMI launched with 37 grants to develop effective strategies to significantly reduce the attrition rate of students majoring in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, also known as STEM. According to HHMI, more than 1 million students enter college each year intending to major in in STEM disciplines. Of those, fewer than half complete a STEM baccalaureate degree, and the attrition rate for underrepresented minorities is even worse as much as 80 percent. We know that most of the attrition occurs in the first two years of college, when students are taking introductory gateway courses in chemistry, math and biology, said Sean Carroll, vice president for science education at HHMI. For some students, the introductory courses are their only exposure to science. Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Rices Stanley C. Moore Professor in Bioengineering, chair of the Department of Bioengineering and the principal investigator on … Continue reading →

Students were Laine Lyles, Hannah King, Karina Bravo, Olivia Smink, Julia Elder, Ryan Williams, Madison Peirce, Jody Baker, Hannah Fletcher, Celeste Wearing, Cameron Constance, Shania Wright, Ashlynn Hill, Mallory Lehr, Thad Estes, Alysa Chirillo, Sarah Wilson, Christine Martin, Andrea White, Morgan Fisher, Jess Moses, Sidney Littleton, Marques Angel, Anna Eades, and their teacher Erin Drennon. PLTW students from Hamilton Career present research projects PLTW Biomedical Innovations students from Hamilton Career Center presented their final independent research projects May 2. This was the first year that students had the opportunity to partner with Clemson University Bioengineering Department and Greenville Health System. Professors in the bioengineering department, along with graduate students and post-graduate assistants, served as mentors for the high school students as they conducted their individual projects. They learned cell culture techniques, the process of tissue engineering, the development of an app on android devices, how to use CAD for 3D printing, the engineering design process, how to conduct live/dead assays, tissue biopsy, but most importantly, they learned the process of research. The 8-week project culminated with a final symposium where the 13 groups presented alongside senior bioengineering students from Clemson University at Greenville Health System Medical University campus. There were … Continue reading →

Contact Information Available for logged-in reporters only Through his research focused on understanding physiologic systems as complex systems, bioengineering professor Kenneth McLeod looks for ways to diagnose, prevent and treat chronic conditions that represent major challenges in modern health care, including pain management, musculo-skeletal injuries, diabetes, Alzheimers disease, Parkinsons disease, osteoporosis and chronic heart failure. McLeod has developed technologies that have been commercialized for the treatment of pain, and to assist in the rehabilitation and prevention of musculoskeletal injury. For more details, visit http://www.BielCorp.com or http://www.Sonostics.com. To understand much of his recent work, one must realize that the body contains two hearts. The primary heart in the chest is responsible for pumping blood out to the body, but the lesser-known, second heart the soleus muscle in the back part of the legs calf is what pumps the blood back. And just like your cardiac muscle can fail, the muscles in your leg can fail, McLeod says. And when they fail, there are numerous complications, one of which is your blood pressure drops. This creates chronic low blood pressure, called hypotension, which is linked to many of the common chronic diseases associated with aging. McLeods lab developed technology that serves to … Continue reading →

The top two Montgomery High School graduates credit a lot of their success to the support and encouragement of their families and teachers at Montgomery High. Valedictorian Catherine A. Dunaway, 18, said her parents, Marcus and Sharon, have encouraged her to achieve her personal best each day, and have been awesome and supportive of all her efforts. From her sister Madeleine, 20, a student at the University of North Texas, Dunaway said shes learned the power of organization and time management and always knows she has a friend to turn to. Salutatorian Vir S. Mehta, 18, has been inspired by his parents, Sanjay and Gurinder Mehta, to pursue a business career in hopes of one day becoming a professor of business just like them. They are both professors in the business school at Sam Houston State University. Mehtas grandfather was also a professor. My parents are probably the two people who have had the biggest impact on my high-school career, Mehta said. Mehtas sister, Tara, a sophomore at Montgomery High, is also at the top of her class. Mehta will study business at the University of Texas at Austin in the fall. Dunaway will study bioengineering at Rice University in … Continue reading →