Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering | UNC & NC State

Checking in with our study abroad students, who are having an incredible experience in Dundee, Scotland, for the Burch Field Research Seminar ✈️ Students in the program learned to reverse engineer medical products, studied ecosystem mapping, and visited the V&A Dundee Museum 🤓. We'd love to hear what you all have been up to this summer! Leave a comment below about your summer adventures, research experiences, or breakthrough!

We're spending this stormy day reflecting on our favorite event from the spring semester: The Joint BME Retreat ☔ 💜 . We brought together our alumni, students, faculty, staff, and friends for a day of all things biomedical engineering. Most importantly, we came together to celebrate our 20th year as a department! Students presented posters and guest speakers covered a wide range of topics in the field. The best part was that we got to learn about the history of how our department came to be at both North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Thank you to all who attended, especially our wonderful guest speakers: https://lnkd.in/e2Mu-H_y

Our team is growing! We have a new tenure-track Assistant/Associate Professor position just posted: https://lnkd.in/g5EB8fxb This appointment will be based at the NC State College of Engineering, but with full access to resources at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. For more information on this position and other faculty positions we have available, check out the link above. 🐺 🐏

🌟 Faculty Feature 🌟 Meet Amy Adkins, Teaching Assistant Professor in Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering | UNC & NC State! Graduating from Northwestern University with her Ph.D., her research specializes in rehabilitation engineering that focuses on how muscle structure and function changes following a stroke or orthopedic surgery. Her goal is to develop improved interventions or therapies for individuals with motor impairments. But, this summer, Amy is focusing on other personal and professional goals. She's mastering different generative AI tools to teach her students, developing new lectures and in-class activities for her mechanics course, and applying for education based grants. Additionally, she's teaching a summer class and excited about incorporating new topics into the curriculum. In June, Amy will attend the American Society for Engineering Education conference to present research on student perceptions of generative AI's usefulness and ethics, hoping to connect with colleagues, and learn new strategies for effective teaching. To recharge, Amy enjoys outdoor activities. She's planning a road trip including camping and hiking with a stop at Mammoth Caves. Quality time with family in Colorado, hiking, fishing, and tubing are at the top of her list. We’re looking forward to hearing more about Amy’s AI tool integration and hearing about her summer! #OFDSFacultyFeature

Participants in our ASSIST Summer Day Camps get to tour some very cool facilities on North Carolina State University's #centennialcampus, like the #biointerfacelab in the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering | UNC & NC State. Kaila, a PhD student, is pictured here last summer talking about  #sensors with broad applications like human and veterinary medicine, #wearables, and #agriculture. Students in grades 9-12 can register now for one or more weeks here: https://lnkd.in/eYytjSsN  #raleighsummercamp #engineeringcamp #ncstatecamp #ncsucamp NC State Electrical & Computer Engineering NC State College of Engineering

Check out the feature on Ashley Brown and Brown Lab's synthetic platelet breakthroughs in Wired Science 👩🔬 Learn how the lab is using hydrogels and antibody fragments to create synthetic platelets with an extended shelf life:

The force was with us on May the 4th for Joint BME’s graduation ceremony. A little rain didn’t even bring us down! ☔️ Congratulations to all of our graduates and best of luck on your next chapter 💜

Our master's students kicked off the last week before graduation with MedTech Showcase! Students presented 11 months of work on innovative solutions for surgical traction, vasopressor delivery, early infection detection of diabetic wounds, and peripheral chronic total occlusion. Congratulations to all the MedTech Innovation + Entrepreneurship @ UNC & NC State teams - your hard work and dedication showed through. Thank you to this year's Showcase sponsors for your contribution to this event: Spectrum Plastics Group, A DuPont Business, Boston Scientific, Plexus Corp., and Robling Medical, LLC.

We had an amazing time at this year’s Student Design Symposium 😎 We were honored to have alumnus Sunny Kasoji attend as our keynote speaker. We also selected this year's MethodSense Design Award winners for the i4 Pitch Competition: MEDPACK! Congratulations to all the participants of this year's i4 Competition and Design Symposium -- you truly made it a great year! Special thank you to our sponsors of this year's event: MethodSense, Inc., Spectrum Plastics Group, A DuPont Business and The Spective Group.

Exciting Opportunity Alert! Calling all professionals from biotech, medical device, and pharma companies in the RDU area!!! As President of the BME Society, my team and I are thrilled to host the NCSU Biomedical Engineering Society Spring Semester Industry Night! Industry reps are invited to engage with our undergraduate members to share insights as part of our career development efforts. Our BME students are eager to network and learn about internships, co-ops, and full-time opportunities! Interested in representing your company or sharing your experiences? Please RSVP below, and message me on LinkedIn OR our club page NCSU Biomedical Engineering Society. This is a great opportunity to show off your company and recruit some top-notch students!