Education
The St. John Center will spearhead an enhancement of education, offering experiential learning at the 4MLK Building. The multidisciplinary intellectual environment will allow for outstanding educational opportunities, joint research activities, and the ability to co-advise graduate and undergraduate students.
Examples of Experiential Learning Classes :
- BIOE447: Clinical Experiences in Bioengineering. An immersion experience in the clinical settings in which biomedical engineering strategies, technologies, and practices are applied. An emphasis will be placed on both clinical problems and engineering solutions.
- BIOE46x: Advances in Photodynamic and Radiation Therapies. Students will learn new and emerging approaches to using light and radiation to treat tumors, such as photodynamic therapy and proton therapy. Students will learn the science behind the techniques, the working principles of the equipment used, and the benefits to patients.
- BIOE485 / 486: Capstone Design I / II. A senior capstone design course that covers principles involved in engineering design, design approaches, economics of design, ethics in engineering, and patent regulations. It also helps students learn teamwork and write design project proposals under the mentorship of a faculty advisor. Finally, it is an independent instruction course where faculty mentoring each project team works with students to order supplies, fabricate their proposed design, test the design, write the report, and present it to their fellow seniors and board of faculty mentors.