Research
Research opportunities in bioengineering
Undergraduates are strongly encouraged to pursue research projects in the faculty laboratories, such as:
- Extraction of chitin from lobster shells
- Bioconversion of waste carbon to biodiesel
- 3D fabrication of artificial skin
- Biocompatible, biodegradable polymers for medical use
- Coating of petrochemical polymers with biodegradable polymers
- Impact energy absorbing structures for mitigating traumatic brain injury
- Microbiome machine learning
- Microfluidic chemostat reactor
- Synthetic biology
- Hard tissue mechanics
- Mechanisms of bone fragility
- Zebrafish as a model for tissue engineering
- Microbial fuel cells
- Drug delivery using conducting polymers
- Silk fibroin microspheres
- Peptide nanotubes for extracellular biomolecules sensing
- PECVD deposition of thin-film coatings on titanium substrates for implants