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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
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