March News:
Congratulations to PBL director Professor Craig R. Forest for 2013 awards for engineering and education!
• Georgia Tech Class of 1940 W. Roane Beard Outstanding Teacher Award (2013)
• Georgia Tech Class of 1934 Outstanding Innovative Use of Education Technology Award (with co-awardees Prof. Thad Starner and Clint Zeagler) (2013)
• Engineer of the Year in Education for the state of Georgia (2013)
January News:
Caitlin Henegar brings hands-on engineering education and training to small communities in Georgia and Alabama in her Small Town Engineering outreach program. Read more on the program Caitlin founded here.
November News:
Congratulations to our newly-minted Doctor Suhasa Kodandaramaiah for his successful PhD defense!
After the defense, Doctor Kodandaramaiah was escorted across campus in a personally-designed celebratory wagon, roughly modeled around the Precision Biosystems Laboratory’s Autopatcher.
September 2012 News:
Welcome to our newest lab members Andrew Yee (BioE Ph.D student), Caitlin Henegar (BioE Ph.D student), John Glisson (BioE PhD student, coadvised with Professor David Ku), and Kyle Blum (BME Rotation Student). We’d also like to welcome our crack ECE robotics team joining the PBL for their ECE Capstone Design Project. These guys: Aaron Fan, Jamison Go, and Coby Lu are the creators of the Pythagoras robot –now that’s a resume booster!
Check out our video describing our automated whole-cell patch clamping of neurons in-vivo:
July 2012 News:
The PBL is awarded a seed grant from GTRI-TRIBES for development of a Sixty Minute Rapid Polymerase Chain Reaction Handheld (SMRPH) for Virus Detection in Children