I have developed undergraduate and graduate courses in the following areas:

• Biomechanics - statics and stress analysis
• Tissue mechanics - continuum mechanics applied to analysis of soft tissues
• Tissue Engineering
• Biomedical engineering design

I also advise multiple major qualifying projects (MQPs) each year in the areas of

• mechanobiology - the effects of the mechanical environment on the biology of cells/tissues
• mechanical analysis of soft tissues (generally grown in culture)
• applying mechanical stimuli to cultured tissues
• developing small-scale mechanical testing devices and dynamic bioreactors
• fracture fixation and bone reconstruction/repair (with collaborators at UMMS)

I have not advised an Interactive Qualifying Project (IQP) yet but I may in the near future.

I am also actively pursuing the use of technology in the classroom and Prof. Allen Hoffman and I have received a WPI Teaching Technology Fellowship 2004-2006 “Self-Paced Biomechanics Lab Technique Modules” and won "Outstanding Paper" on the subject at the 2006 ASEE Northeast Meeting.

I recently received the Education Development Council 2004-2005 Grant “Challenge-based Biomechanics Laboratories.” and won the Romeo L. Moruzzi Young Faculty Award for Innovation in Undergraduate Education 2005