Upcoming and Past Events
The Bioengine Industry Networking Night
We will be hosting our winter industry networking night. This will be a networking event that will consist of 2 minute reverse pitches from companies and networking booths to be able to meet and recruit our students after graduation.
Date: February 13, 2020
Location
UCI Applied Innovation (The Cove)
5270 California Ave #100, Irvine, CA 92617
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The Bioengine Unmet Clinical Need Reverse Pitch Night
We will be hosting our kick-off event, the Unmet Clinical Need Reverse Pitch Night. This will be a pitch event where all mentors will pitch their projects to our students who can then match to the project and team of interest.
Date: October 1, 2019
Location
UCI Applied Innovation (The Cove)
5141 California Ave, Suite 200
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Learn More about Becoming a Mentor for the BioENGINE Program
The Bioengine Biomedical Device Design Symposium
We are celebrating the culmination of the Biomedical Device Design capstone course at UC Irvine. Join us over food and drinks as the senior design teams showcase their prototypes and compete for a chance to win BioENGINE Fellowships and Capstone Design Awards.
*Note: BioENGINE Fellowship candidates are also eligible for Capstone Design Awards
Date: June 6, 2019
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Location
UCI Applied Innovation (The Cove)
5141 California Ave, Suite 200
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BioENGINE Symposium Event Flyer
About the instructors
Dr. William Tang
Dr. William Tang is a Professor at UC Irvine. Dr. Tang is also the Associate Dean for Research at UCI. He research consists of ultra-low-power, high-Q and high-frequency resonators for wireless communications and signal processing, biological fuel cells, and single-cell physiology and engineering. His work experience includes tenure at the Ford Research Laboratory, Ford Microelectronics, Inc. and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He was a DARPA MEMS Program Manager. He is a Member of Technology Advisory Board at Discera, Inc. Dr. Tang served as a Member of the Technical Advisory Board at Virtus Advanced Sensors, Inc. His contributions also encompass the use of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) in the automotive industry, including crash sensors for air-bag deployment systems. He holds two patents for automotive accelerometers and has authored more than 40 papers in the MEMS field. Dr. Tang holds a BS, MS and PhD degrees in EECS from the University of California-Berkeley.
Dr. Michelle Khine
Dr. Michelle Khine is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at UC Irvine. She is also the Director of Faculty Innovation at the Henry Samueli School of Engineering. Dr. Khine received her BS and MS from UC Berkeley in Mechanical Engineering and her PhD in Bioengineering from UC Berkeley and UCSF. She was the Scientific Founder of 4 companies: Fluxion Biosciences, Shrink Nanotechnologies, Novoheart, and TinyKicks. Dr. Khine was the recipient of the TR35 Award and named one of Forbes ’10 Revolutionaries’ in 2009 and by Fast Company Magazine as one of the '100 Most Creative People in Business' in 2011. She was awarded the NIH New Innovator's Award, was named a finalist in the World Technology Awards for Materials, and was named by Marie‐Claire magazine as 'Women on Top: Top Scientist'. Dr. Khine also started a novel co-op with her students, “A Hundred Tiny Hands,” and is currently leading the Bioengineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship program, BioENGINE, at UC Irvine.
Dr. Christine King
Dr. Christine King is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Biomedical Engineering at UC Irvine. She received her BS and MS from Manhattan College in Mechanical Engineering and her PhD in Biomedical Engineering from UC Irvine, where she developed brain-computer interface systems for neurorehabilitation. She was a post-doctorate in the Wireless Health Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a research manager in the Center for SMART Health, where she focused on wireless health monitoring for stroke and pediatric asthma. Her current research is on engineering education.
Dr. Chris Hoo
Dr. Christopher Hoo is a Project Engineer at the Advanced Materials Division at 3M and a Lecturer at UC Irvine. He has spent the last 6 years working in the Aerospace and Defense industries. His areas of expertise include materials characterization and processing, design for manufacturability, new product introduction (NPI), implementation of lean processes, disruptive technology implementation and manufacturing scale up. Dr. Hoo received his BS, MS and PhD degree in Materials Science Engineering from the University of California-Irvine.