MENG/BENG 404 Wraps Up Another Successful Semester

Co-taught by Dr. Joseph Zinter, assistant director of the Center for Engineering Innovation & Design, and Dr. Jean Zheng, engineering director at the Center for Biomedical and Interventional Technology (CBIT), the course brings together interdisciplinary teams of students to with physicians from the Yale School of Medicine and Yale-New Haven Hospital to address unmet clinical needs. This year, the four teams tackled creating realistic patient simulator, reduce pain in bone marrow biopsies, what happens after an organ transplant, and making gall bladder surgeries more efficient.