{"id":6437,"date":"2017-10-31T12:01:08","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T16:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/news\/?p=6437"},"modified":"2017-10-31T12:01:37","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T16:01:37","slug":"elizabethtown-college-offers-civil-biomedical-engineering-concentrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2017\/10\/31\/elizabethtown-college-offers-civil-biomedical-engineering-concentrations\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabethtown College offers civil, biomedical engineering concentrations"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Elizabethtown College engineering students now have the opportunity to be part of industries that directly shape our society and improve our lives. In addition to electrical, environmental, mechanical, and industrial and systems engineering already at E-town, the College now offers ABET-accredited engineering degrees with a choice of civil or biomedical engineering concentrations for graduation in 2022.<\/p>\n

Civil engineering, which focuses on the design of bridges, transportation systems and buildings, develops a student\u2019s skills in designing and analyzing safe, reliable and efficient public infrastructure. Student projects are a key focus of the degree with coursework in green architecture, structural and environmental engineering, strength of materials, civil engineering materials, and environmental site design.<\/p>\n

After World War II, there was a huge leap forward in infrastructure, said Kurt DeGoede, professor of engineering and physics at Elizabethtown. \u201cNationally and regionally, we have a present and ongoing need for engineers to design the next generation of transportation and other infrastructure systems.\u00a0 Many aging networks are in need of replacement.\u201d Because of the mid-20th century boom, he said, many systems will need to be renovated or replaced over a similarly short timeframe, creating urgency in the field.<\/p>\n

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There always will be new bridges to be built and new roads to be constructed.”<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In addition, said Brenda Read-Daily, assistant professor of engineering, many of the civil engineers hired in previous cycles of construction were Baby Boomers. \u201cThere is a need to fill the shoes of those who are retiring,\u201d meaning significant openings in the job market.<\/p>\n

Courtney Warlick, a 2014 E-town engineering alum who is a design engineer in the structures department of Wallace Montgomery and Associates, in Cockeysville, Maryland, helps to create plan sets to be submitted to contractors for construction. \u201cCurrently, the company is working on a lot of \u201cDesign-Build\u201d projects where the turnaround for concepts is quick and has the potential to change throughout construction,\u201d she said, noting that she \u201cabsolutely\u201d would have benefitted by the concentration while at E-town.<\/p>\n

\u201cAny knowledge is good knowledge,\u201d she said. \u201cBut being able to focus on the aspects of civil engineering would have helped me understand some basic concepts when I first started at Wallace Montgomery. The civil engineering field will always be in demand. There always will be new bridges to be built and new roads to be constructed. As time goes on, there will be new and improved ways to solve the problems of today when it comes to transportation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Students who opt for the College\u2019s new biomedical engineering concentration will graduate with the ability to significantly impact the lives of others through careers in prosthetics or other surgical and clinical device industries. In class, they design and test medical devices for use in surgical and clinical applications and explore balance and motor control. The biomedical curriculum includes biomechanics, biomaterials, strength of materials, fluid dynamics, control systems and biomedical device design.<\/p>\n

The concentration, said DeGoede, embodies the College\u2019s \u201cEducation for Service. Engineer for Society\u201d mission.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany of the students interested in the biomedical concentration had a personal \u00a0experience, perhaps a family member or friend with a prosthetic. That becomes a major force for their decision to pursue the concentration,\u201d said Read-Daily.<\/p>\n

Russell Speiden, who graduated from Elizabethtown in 2012 with a degree in engineering, works in new product design at Aroa Biosurgery, in Auckland, New Zealand, where he concentrates in implantable devices.<\/p>\n

As medical device development is often subject to FDA regulations, Speiden said, the knowledge of technical engineering as well as regulatory requirements are crucial to successfully design, develop and launch a medical device in the United States. When he interviews new hires, he said, \u201crecent graduates rarely have the experiences specific to the medical device industry, as (these skills) are often learned on the job \u2026 any exposure during schooling will be advantageous upon graduation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elizabethtown College engineering students now have the opportunity to be part of industries that directly shape our society and improve our lives. In addition to electrical, environmental, mechanical, and industrial and systems engineering already at E-town, the College now offers ABET-accredited engineering degrees with a choice of civil or biomedical engineering concentrations for graduation in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":6438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178,764],"tags":[490,70,1128],"class_list":["post-6437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-achievements","category-research-and-academics","tag-achievements-2","tag-engineering","tag-feature","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6437"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6441,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6437\/revisions\/6441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}