Education

Mission Statement

Develop innovative education, outreach, and training programs across EBICS that will prepare students to become future researchers and education leaders in the new discipline.

Objectives

To produce the next generation of researchers and a supporting community to nucleate and develop the nascent discipline for building living, multi-cellular machines. This requires a diverse group of leaders who are equally proficient in biology and engineering, prepared for future challenges in their careers in a global environment.

The EBICS education plan involves:

  • developing an integrated graduate course that effectively merges the essential sciences & technologies needed to advance this new field
  • establishing a graduate teaching consortium to offer a selection of synchronous & asynchronous courses
  • nurturing the students’ leadership abilities by forming a student council
  • enriching the students’ international experiences by internships with our international collaborators
  • supporting student participation in GEM4 summer schools
  • recruiting women and underrepresented minorities to participate in the EBICS summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program 
  • participating in student career development workshops and mentoring programs 

 

EBICS Education Director

Dr. Linda Griffith - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

Education & Diversity Programs Manager

Leslie McClain - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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EBICS Knowledge Transfer

Knowledge Transfer

EBICS believes that it is important to carrying out NSF's mission is to help others use new knowledge in science and engineering for the benefit of others outside of this STC. 

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Diversity

The National Science Foundation places a huge emphasis on diversity and inclusion. EBICS will focus on broadening the participation of under-represented minorities and women in all aspects of the center.

View EBICS Diversity Objectives
 

GEM4 Summer School 2012

 

Cellular and Molecular Mechanics
with a focus on

Developmental Biology

 

Objectives: To educate researchers and graduate students about the fundamentals of cell and molecular biomechanics, and to provide an intense learning experience, and to facilitate interactions among engineers, biologists and clinicians. The goals are to help train a new generation of researchers with in-depth knowledge of mechanics and biology and to help engineers and biologists apply biomechanical approaches in biomolecular, cellular, tissue-level, animal model studies.

 

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