As Engineering News was going to press, the National Science Foundation announced it had selected Vanderbilt as the lead university for a nearly $10 million multi-institution grant that will utilize the combined expertise of the Vanderbilt School of Engineering and Peabody College Learning Technology Center to develop bioengineering educational technologies and curricula for the new millennium.
The grant establishes the Vanderbilt-Northwestern-Texas-Harvard/MIT Center for Bioengineering Educational Technologies. The first of its kind center will support and enhance the education of a new generation of bioengineers. Thomas R. Harris, chair of biomedical engineering, is principal investigator of the grant.
"The research and educational products to be developed by the new NSF center will impact engineering education across all domains," Dean Kenneth Galloway says. "Not only will technology be adapted in new ways to teach bioengineering concepts successfully and efficiently, but the center's products will help make new bioengineering course material available to all engineers."
An in-depth article on the center will appear in the next Engineering News.

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