Friday March 16, 2012

12:00 - 5:00pm

Registration – Gittis Student Center South, 2^nd Floor Lobby

2:00-3:30pm

Session 1: Entrepreneurship
Room 200AB

C. Laing – University City Science Center
D. King – Quaker Partners Management
S. Khalil – Globus Medical, Inc.

3:30-4:00pm

Coffee Break

4:00-5:30pm

Senior Design Poster Session
Room 217CD

5:30pm-7:00pm

Welcome Reception and Senior Design Awards
Room 200C

Saturday March 17, 2012

8:00-9:30am

Plenary Session: Advances in Biomaterials
Room 200

R. Mauck, U. Penn
W. Marks, Harvard University
D. Hansberry, Drexel University
M. Siriwardane, NJIT

9:30-10:00am

Coffee Break

10:00-11:30am

Session 2

2A: Modeling
Room 217CD

D. Elliot
(U. Delaware)

N. Tchorowski
(Lafayette College)

C. Thaokar
(Carnegie Melon)

H. Wee
(Lehigh University)

2B: Biomechanics
Room:Underground

B. Winkelstein
(U. Penn)

K. Darvish
(Temple Univ)

J. Huang
(U. Penn)

H. Baig
(U. Penn)

11:30am-12:30pm

Lunch (Boxed lunch provided)

12:30-2:00pm

Plenary Session: Advances in Neural Engineering
Room 200

M. Serruya – Jefferson University Hospital
K. Moxon – Drexel University

2:00-3:00pm

Poster Session 1
Rooms 220 and 223

3:00-4:30pm

Session 3

3A: Imaging
Room 217CD

J. Zara
(G. Washington Univ)

F. Saleheen
(Temple University)

Y. Alkan
(NJIT)

K. Pineault
(U. Delaware)

3B: Instrumentation
Room: Underground

G. Grande
(U. Valladolid)

J. Feig
(Carnegie Melon)

Y. Song
(U. Sci. Tech, China)

H. Hovagimian
(WPI)

4:30-5:00pm

Coffee Break

5:00-6:30pm

Plenary Session: Translational Research
Room 200

S. Nappi – Temple University
B. Onaral – Drexel University

7:30-10:30pm

Banquet - Doubletree Hotel Philadelphia
(corner of Broad & Locust Streets)

Sunday March 18, 2012

8:00-9:30am

Plenary Session: Advances in Biomedical Design
Room 200

W. Jia – Wuhan University
Y. Liu – Lehigh University
J. Vossoughi – University of Maryland
X. Tang – Johns Hopkins University

9:30-10:00am

Coffee Break

10:00-11:30am

Session 4

4A: Tissue Engineering
Room 217CD

W. Han
(U. Penn)

V. Merkle
(U. Arizona)

T. Phamduy
(RPI)

X. Xu
(U. Delaware)

11:30am-12:15pm

Plenary Session: Advances in Tissue Engineering
Room 200

L. Tseng – Syracuse University
R. Baker – Syracuse University
J. Loverde – NJIT
A. Hanifi – Temple University

12:15-1:30pm

Poster Session 2 and Lunch (Boxed lunch provided)
Rooms 220 and 223

1:30-2:45pm

Session 5

5A: Biological Engineering
Room 217CD

B. Wang
(Widener Univ)

B. Guarino
(U. Penn)

X. Luo
(U. Maryland)

M. Carroll
(Rutgers Univ)

2:45-3:30pm

Awards and Closing Remarks
Room 200