Mechanical Properties of Biological Tissue: Integration into Undergraduate Biology and Engineering Curricula

跨学科(99)这个项目通过一门名为“生物组织的机械特性”的课程，为机械工程和生物学专业的学生带来跨学科的学习。新兴领域，包括生物学在工程中的应用，是重要的，涉及许多领域的贡献。这门课程增加了工程和理科学生在生物工程领域的机会。该项目的重点是加强不同学科的学生和教职员工之间的合作，以解决日益复杂的技术问题。通过创新的学习模式，生物和工程学学生从各自学科的角度进行交流和分享专业知识。学生在以实践发现为基础的实验室环境中担任同伴导师，学习结缔组织工程中涉及的问题。这门课程培养的学生体验到了与不同学科背景的同龄人一起工作的好处。这种互动有助于建立一支准备应对日益复杂的技术问题的劳动力队伍。

Interdisciplinary(99) This project brings interdisciplinary study to mechanical engineering and biology students through a course entitled "Mechanical Properties of Biological Tissue". Emerging fields which include biology applications in engineering are important and involve contributions from a number of fields. The course enhances opportunities for students from engineering and science in the field of bioengineering. The project focuses on the need to increase collaboration between students and faculty from different disciplines to solve increasingly complex problems in technology. Through innovative modules of learning, biology and engineering students interact and share expertise from the perspectives of their disciplines. Students serve as peer mentors in a hands-on discovery-based laboratory setting to study issues involved in the engineering of connective tissues. The course produces students who have experienced the benefits of working at the interface of disciplines and working in tandem with peers from a different disciplinary background. This interaction contributes to the creation of a workforce prepared to address increasingly complex technological problems.