Brendan Harley, S.B. ’00 (engineering sciences - bioengineering), and Christopher Hernandez, S.B. ’96 (engineering sciences - bioengineering) have been elected into the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE.)
AIMBE membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to "engineering and medicine research, practice, or education” and to "the pioneering of new and developing fields of technology, making major advancements in traditional fields of medical and biological engineering, or developing/implementing innovative approaches to bioengineering education."
Harley, Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Illinois, pursues the fabrication, characterization, and testing of biomaterials for in vivo and in vitro tissue engineering applications.
Hernandez, Associate Professor at the Cornell University College of Engineering, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering/Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, studies mechanical properties of living biological materials and the response of live tissues to mechanical loading.
Brendan Harley (left) and Christopher Hernandez
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