Dr. Aaron M. Kyle: "Hk Maker Lab: An Engineering Design Summer Program for High School Students"
Date: August 18th, 2020 - See the recording of this event below!
Dr. Kyle teaches two semesters of BME Lab Courses, an advanced Bioinstrumentation course, and BME Senior Design. Senior Design in Columbia BME is a two-semester course sequence in which students devise a solution to an open-ended biomedical problem. This course has resulted in students receiving a number of extramural awards (NIH DEBUT, BMEStart, Collegiate Inventors Competition, Rice Global Health Technology Competition), meritorious funding (USAID, Gates Foundation, Vodafone, VentureWell), and the formation of University-based startups (Kinnos, Inc. Neopenda, Luso Labs, Jibon Health.) Dr. Kyle has expanded Senior Design into A Global Health Technology program in which Columbia students collaborate with partners in Uganda to create appropriate neonatal and maternal care technologies. These efforts have led to the creation of a variety of therapeutic and diagnostic devices for use in Uganda and other developing nations.
In 2014, Dr. Kyle created and launched the HYPOTHEKids (Hk) Maker Lab, an NIH-funded set of programs focused on introducing underprivileged and underrepresented minority high school students in New York City to engineering design and biomedical research. As a result of this program, over 140 high school students have learned and applied a bio-engineering design process. The program has propelled students to biomedical laboratory and biotechnology industry internships and the pursuit of STEM majors. He is currently working on expanding the Hk Maker Lab into the fabric of secondary education throughout New York City / State with the development of engineering design-centric courses for high school students. These courses, which were developed under Dr. Kyle's guidance, are currently being taught in seven (7) NYC high schools, impacting over 600 students.
Dr. Kyle received his BSEE from Kettering University in '02 and his Ph.D. in BME from Purdue University in '07. He joined the faculty in BME at Columbia University in 2010. He is a member of Eta Kappa Nu and Tau Beta Pi engineering honor societies. In 2017, he received the Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching, Columbia's highest teaching recognition. He is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and will deliver the Diversity Award Lecture at the 2020 BMES Annual Meeting.
For this interview, we will be discussing his paper “Hk Maker Lab: An Engineering Design Summer Program for High School Students”, in which he explains his development and structure of a summer program to expose students from minority populations and lower-socioeconomic backgrounds to biomedical engineering.
Read Dr. Kyle's paper here!
Dr. Kyle at Columbia Engineering
Hk Maker Lab
In 2014, Dr. Kyle created and launched the HYPOTHEKids (Hk) Maker Lab, an NIH-funded set of programs focused on introducing underprivileged and underrepresented minority high school students in New York City to engineering design and biomedical research. As a result of this program, over 140 high school students have learned and applied a bio-engineering design process. The program has propelled students to biomedical laboratory and biotechnology industry internships and the pursuit of STEM majors. He is currently working on expanding the Hk Maker Lab into the fabric of secondary education throughout New York City / State with the development of engineering design-centric courses for high school students. These courses, which were developed under Dr. Kyle's guidance, are currently being taught in seven (7) NYC high schools, impacting over 600 students.
Dr. Kyle received his BSEE from Kettering University in '02 and his Ph.D. in BME from Purdue University in '07. He joined the faculty in BME at Columbia University in 2010. He is a member of Eta Kappa Nu and Tau Beta Pi engineering honor societies. In 2017, he received the Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching, Columbia's highest teaching recognition. He is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and will deliver the Diversity Award Lecture at the 2020 BMES Annual Meeting.
For this interview, we will be discussing his paper “Hk Maker Lab: An Engineering Design Summer Program for High School Students”, in which he explains his development and structure of a summer program to expose students from minority populations and lower-socioeconomic backgrounds to biomedical engineering.
Read Dr. Kyle's paper here!
Dr. Kyle at Columbia Engineering
Hk Maker Lab