Speaker: Aileen Huang鈥怱aad, PhD, MBA聽Director of Life Sciences and Engineering Programs,聽Department of Bioengineering
The Roux Institute, Northeastern University
91福利 the lecture: Today, higher education is facing significant challenges as it tries to prepare its聽graduates for post graduate opportunities. Additionally, technology development聽is evolving at a record pace across disciplines; students are faced with an over鈥恮helming number of opportunities and career paths; and, rightly so, there is a聽growing demand to integrate evidence鈥恇ased practices for learning and organizational change. These pressures have stimulated higher education to identify new聽ways to integrate post graduate opportunities into curriculum and the classroom,聽not only changing the culture of higher education but questioning the necessary聽credentials to advance in the fields. For this talk, Aileen will explain how her experience with design, entrepreneurship and professional practice have influenced聽her approach to closing the gap between higher education and professional practice. She will also discuss how her work has influenced her thoughts on creating聽鈥渋ntentional networks鈥 in low density settings, offering a comprehensive path for聽learners to engage in higher education throughout their careers.
91福利 the speaker: In February 2021, Dr. Huang鈥怱aad joined the Bioengineering聽faculty at Northeastern University and became the Director of聽Life Sciences and Engineering Programs at The Roux Institute聽(Portland, Maine). Dr. Huang鈥怱aad has over a 14 history of聽bringing about organizational change in higher education,聽leveraging evidence鈥恇ased practices at University of Michigan.聽She created the U鈥怣 BME graduate design program, co鈥惵爁ounded the U鈥怣 College of Engineering Center for聽Entrepreneurship, launched the U鈥怣 National Science聽Foundation (NSF) I鈥怌orps Node, and developed the U鈥怣 BME聽Instructional Incubator. She is a canonical instructor for both聽the NSF and National Institute of Health (NIH) I鈥怌orps Programs. Dr. Huang鈥怱aad has聽received numerous awards for her teaching and student advising, including the 1938E聽College of Engineering Award, the Thomas M. Sawyer, Jr. Teaching Award, the U鈥怣 ASEE聽Outstanding Professor Award, the International Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award,聽and the College of Engineering Outstanding Student Advisor Award. She currently serves聽as Deputy Editor鈥恑n鈥 Chief of Springer鈥檚 Biomedical Engineering Education and is a聽member of the Maine State Workforce Board and the National Academies鈥 Roundtable聽on Systemic Change in Undergraduate STEM Education.
Dr. Huang鈥怱aad鈥檚 current research areas are entrepreneurship, innovation, and聽transforming higher education. She has been funded by the NSF to explore the influence聽of the microenvironment of entrepreneurship education on minoritized populations,聽entrepreneurial ecosystems, and fostering graduate student professional development.
Prior to entering higher education, Dr. Huang鈥怱aad worked in industry gaining experience聽in new venture biotech, the defense industry, and medical device testing. She has a聽Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, a Doctor of聽Philosophy from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and a Master of聽Business Administration from University of Michigan Ross School of Business.
This event is located in Soderberg Lecture Hall.
