A Learning Community for Engineers and Biologists At the Bio-Micro/Nano Interface

工程技术学院和科学院正在共同开发生物微/纳米流体学和生物微/纳米机电系统(MEMS/NEMS)讲座和实验室课程，以共同培养下一代生物学家和工程师。这些课程设计通过全面的讲座课程和密集的实践学习经验，将两个学科的教职员工和学生整合在一起，弥合了工程师和生物学家之间的教育差距。在这些课程中，学生首先学习生物问题和解决问题的传统方法，然后学习微/纳米流体学和MEMS/NEMS技术的基础。随后，学生团队在实验室中实施微/纳米流体学和MEMS/NEMS技术，以解决特定的现实世界生物学问题。

The College of Engineering and Technology, and the College of Sciences are jointly developing Bio-Micro/ Nano-Fluidics and Bio-Micro/ Nano-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS/NEMS) lecture and laboratory courses to educate the future generation of biologists and engineers together. These course designs bridge educational gaps between engineers and biologists by integrating both faculty and students from the two disciplines through comprehensive lecture courses and intensive hands-on learning experiences. In these courses, students first learn biology problems and conventional methods of solving them, and then learn the fundamentals of micro/ nano-fluidics and MEMS/NEMS technologies. Student teams subsequently implement micro/ nano-fluidics and MEMS/NEMS techniques in the laboratory to address specific real-world biology problems.