I believe education should provide a foundation of fundamentals, thereby enabling life-long learning through experience and professional development. Interdisciplinary instruction, which is essential to Biomedical Engineering education, works best when the experience help students to learn context and processes in a broad context. As a new Assistant Professor of the Practice I am currently working on creating and implementing a new capstone senior design course Biotechnology and Biological Devices Design. The design course will expand to include new laboratory and equipment that could be used to create design prototypes and design processes relating to biomaterials, biotransport, cell and molecular modeling, and biomechanics aspects of BME. I believe that a design course is a great opportunity for the students to be exposed to real life situations. Students are more interested and motivated by real life problems with real “clients”. We hope to draw upon resources and research diversity of our BME community here in Engineering and in the Medical Sciences. In addition to client-based team projects, students will be exposed to issues such as bioethics, teamwork, brainstorming, design process and analysis, presentation techniques, regulatory and safety, intellectual property, self and peer assessment.

Contact Info:

Office Location:	254 Engineering Annex
Office Phone:	(919) 660-8267
Email Address:
Web Page:

Teaching (Fall 2009):  (typical courses)

• BME 83L.001, INTRO TO BIOMATERIALS

  Hudson 208, TuTh 11:40 AM-12:55 PM

• BME 83L.01L, INTRO TO BIOMATERIALS

  Teer P013, W 01:15 PM-03:15 PM

• BME 83L.02L, INTRO TO BIOMATERIALS

  Teer P013, W 04:25 PM-06:25 PM

• BME 242L.01, INTRO BIONANOTECH ENG

  Teer 114, TuTh 02:50 PM-03:45 PM

• BME 242L.01L, INTRO BIONANOTECH ENG

  Teer 114, TuTh 04:25 PM-05:00 PM

• BME 227L.001, DESIGN IN BIOTECHNOLOGY Synopsis

• BME 227L.01L, DESIGN IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

• BME 242L.01, INTRO BIONANOTECH ENG Synopsis

• BME 242L.01L, INTRO BIONANOTECH ENG

Education:

PhD, University of California, Berkeley

BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Management of Technology Certification, University of California, Berkeley

Specialties:

Biological Materials
Design
Engineering Education
Sensing and Sensor Systems
Nanomaterial manufacturing and characterization
Nanoscience

Duties:

Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

NIH Training Fellowship, University of California, San Francisco
Predoctoral Student Award, American Society for Cell Biology
UCB Graduate Opportunities Program Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Kao YS; Cina A; Gimm JA., Seeing inside the black box, The Science Teacher, vol. 73 no. 9 (2006), pp. 46-49 .
2. Gimm JA; Beebe DJ., Microfluidic tectonics, in BioMEMS and Biomedical Nanotechnology Volume IV: Biomolecular Sensing, Processing and Analysis. (2006), Springer .
3. Maxwell JS; He BJ; deProphetis W; Gimm JA., Lighten up your lesson: matter, optics, and bubbles, Science Scope, vol. 29 no. 6 (2006), pp. 38-41 .
4. Gimm JA; Bentley A; Farhoud M; Ellis AB; Lisensky GC; Crone WC., Video laboratory manuals and kits that explain nanoscale science and engineering concepts, ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, vol. 3464 no. 1125 (2005), pp. 1-9  [abs].
5. Zenner GM; Crone WC; Gimm JA; et al, Turning Cutting-Edge Research into Secondary Curriculum, Journal of Materials Education, vol. 27 no. (3-6) (2005), pp. 91-96 .