Students construct a model digestive tract.
BME session in the "The Engineering Sampler" series.
Middle School day event through SWE.
Outreach Events
Rethink the rink
Professor Abbott is a mentor for the annual make-a-thon to improve ice hockey safety sponsored by CMU, the Pittsburgh Penguins, Covestro, and Bauer Hockey . This year, students developed shot blocker equipment to protect players’ lower legs and ankles from opposing teams’ shots. Despite how often injuries occur when players use their skates to deflect the puck, there is no standard shot blocker equipment.
YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT
Professor Abbott hosts a class for grades K-2 through the Gelfand Outreach Center.
Biomedical engineering hosts students from Homewood Children's Village
The Abbott lab showed the students the different steps of silk scaffold preparation and discussed characteristics of biomaterials.
engineering sampler class
The Abbott lab did a class on Biomedical Engineering for the Gelfand Outreach Center focused on biomaterials and tissue engineering.
Lab tours
The lab hosts tours for high school and undergraduate members of the National Society of Black Engineers.
Middle School Day
Professor Abbott hosts the BME session at the annual Society of Women Engineers (SWE) event. The event aimed to help girls get a better idea of what engineering entails and offer them guidance and advice for pursuing a career in
Explore Engineering
The Abbott lab had a tissue engineering booth with jello hydrogels of different stiffnesses and silk cocoons/fibers/scaffolds for children to interact with at the annual "Explore Engineering Day" at CMU hosted by CIT.
You are What You Eat
Professor Abbott hosts a class for grades K-2 through the Gelfand Outreach Center.