This course will expose students to the process of maximizing the impact and innovation of their research, including translating fundamental research findings into real-world applications that benefit health and society. We'll discuss how innovation works, examine the mechanics of building and organizing new teams (labs, companies, organizations etc.), and collaborating with existing companies and organizations. We'll discuss how to build and sustain a strong culture, and how to lead and inspire your team. Students will participate in a team-based project to develop a startup company based on intellectual property.

This course covers theoretical and computational principles, tools, and techniques essential for bioengineers, including: 1. Mathematical Frameworks in Bioengineering: Covers biomolecular kinetics, ordinary differential equation models, and reaction-diffusion. 2. Molecular Simulation Techniques: Includes stochastic and deterministic methods. 3. Practical Approaches Using Python and MATLAB: Focuses on data analysis, coding (with key packages), classical machine learning, and image processing. 4. Fundamentals of AI/ML: Addresses supervised and unsupervised learning, neural networks, and Poisson distributions.

This course exposes students to the process of maximizing the impact and innovation of their research, including translating fundamental research findings into real-world applications that benefit health and society. Students discuss how innovation works, examine the mechanics of building and organizing new teams (labs, companies, organizations etc.), and collaborating with existing companies and organizations. The class discusses how to build and sustain a strong culture, and how to lead and inspire your team. Students participate in a team-based project to develop a startup company based on intellectual property.

Over the next several decades environmental sustainability will be a major challenge for engineers and society to overcome. This course is an introduction to environmental biotechnology focusing on how the applications of biotechnologies are impacting sustainability efforts in a variety of sectors including water systems, food and chemical production, and infrastructure construction. This course will provide a broad background in biological design concepts across scales from molecules to ecosystems, how bioengineering enables the design of new biotechnologies, and the ethical implications of engineering biology for use in the environment.

'Life finds a way.' to quote Jurassic Park, and understanding how Life does things can help us not only better understand it, but also better build, heal, and design our own living systems. This course focuses on the intersection of mechanics, materials science, and biology and focuses on two themes. (1) We use special engineering principles from different disciplines to understand how mechanics and material properties enable cells to make everything from beating hearts to velociraptors. (2) We apply this knowledge to learn how to design new biomedical devices and biomaterials while considering regulatory and bioethics guidelines.