Participating in Authentic Engineering Projects Improves Teachers’ Ability to Teach the Design Process to Middle School Students

Kris Billiar is Department Head and Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He earned a B.S. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University, an M.S.E and Ph.D. in Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania. His current research interests are soft tissue mechanics and mechanobiology – the study of how mechanical forces regulate the development and healing of connective tissues and the pathogenesis of disease.