Waters, C., & Sarin, S. (2011, June), Integrating  Biology and Engineering  Paper presented at 2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Vancouver, BC. 10.18260/1-2--18207

\bibitem{asee_peer_18207}
  Waters, C., \& Sarin, S. (2011, June), \emph{Integrating  Biology and Engineering}
  Paper presented at 2011 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Vancouver, BC.
  10.18260/1-2--18207

Cindy Waters and Sanjiv Sarin.  "Integrating  Biology and Engineering".  2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Vancouver, BC, 2011, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2011.  https://peer.asee.org/18207 Internet.  10 Jan, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_18207}
  Cindy Waters and Sanjiv Sarin.
  "Integrating  Biology and Engineering".
  \emph{2011 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Vancouver, BC, 2011, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2011.
  https://peer.asee.org/18207 Internet.  10 Jan, 2025

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AB  -                          Incorporating Biology in EngineeringThis paper presents planned activities and some recent successes related to collaborative effortsbetween engineering and biology at *** State University. For many years, faculty in engineeringand biology have teamed up to submit research proposals, much of this collaboration hasoccurred through personal relationships among faculty members. More recently, the universityhas encouraged a formal and intentional cooperation between the two disciplines in an effort tofind mutual benefits. Spurred by the establishment of new bioengineering degree programs andhelped by the NSF Engineering Research Center for metallic biomaterials, the partnershipbetween engineering and biology has strengthened and is yielding significant benefits forstudents. The partnership has grown in several dimensions including coursework, fundedproposals, joint faculty positions, and shared facilities. During 2010 a team of facultyrepresenting engineering and biology and administrators were awarded an NSF Innovationthrough Institutional Integration (I3) grant titled EBEE: Enhancing Bioscience and EngineeringEducation through curriculum integration and research experiences in systems biology. Themain theme of the project is to incorporate life sciences education and research across thecampus and to demonstrate it by creating intentional and sustained collaborations between theCollege of Engineering and the Biology Department at ***. One example of cross-campussustainable collaborations is team teaching by faculty from the two disciplines. The mechanicalengineering department faculty has recognized that research into new biomaterials is asignificant area of emphasis for modern materials research and therefore is an area worthy ofstudy. In order to prepare students, the regularly scheduled course entitled Modern EngineeringMaterials is being upgraded to include biomaterials. Recognizing that the human body is anamazing machine made up of a series of macro and nano-scale systems including biologicalpumps, valves, pipes, filters, wiring, as well as contents under pressure, the course will be teamtaught by engineering and biology professors. In order to introduce undergraduate engineers tothese connections, a module was created to identify and study relationships between structureand function in human body tissues and to investigate medical device design. In turn,engineering faculty will help the biologists in helping them use systems biology to model thesame physiological systems. Systems biology is a comprehensive quantitative analysis of themanner in which all the components of a biological system interact functionally over time.Engineering faculty will in turn assist the biology faculty in incorporating systems biology intotheir curriculum. The details of this collaboration and the specific module created will bediscussed in the paper.
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