Speaker Looks At Integrating Biology Into
Engineering Curricula, March 313-27-97
University Park, Pa.--Janie Fouke is the invited speaker on "Integrating Biology and Engineering" at the Agricultural and Biological Engineering Seminar beginning at 12:20 p.m. Monday, March 31, in 101 ASI Building on the University Park campus. Fouke is director of the Bioengineering and Environmental System Division of the National Science Foundation. She is currently on leave to the NSF from Case Western Reserve University where she has been on the faculty in the Department of Biomedical Engineering since 1981. She recently served her second term as president of the IEEE/Engineering in Medicine and Biology Section, the largest professional society of bioengineers in the world.
Fouke will discuss the promises, problems and pathways of integrating biology into engineering curricula. In addition, she will discuss and interpret the trends she has seen during her tenure at NSF.
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Contacts: A'ndrea Elyse Messer (814) 865-9481 (office) aem1@psuvm.psu.edu 76520.3240@compuserve.com
Vicki Fong (814) 865-9481 (office) (814) vyf1@psu.edu