Research Interests

  • Drug Delivery
  • Tissue Engineering
  • Wound Healing

Courses Taught

Number

Name

Level

ENGR 4171

Senior Design Project I for Industrial and Systems Engineering

Undergraduate

ENGR 4172

Senior Design Project I for Engineering

Undergraduate

ENGR 4173

Senior Design Project I for Environmental Engineering

Undergraduate

ENGR 4174

Senior Design Project I for Bioengineering

Undergraduate

ENGR 4175

Senior Design Project I for Civil Engineering

Undergraduate

ENGR 4176

Senior Design Project I for Electrical Engineering

Undergraduate

ENGR 4177

Senior Design Project I for Mechanical Engineering

Undergraduate

ENGR 4296

Capstone Senior Design Project

Undergraduate

ENGR 4296

Senior Design Project II

Undergraduate

ENGR 4996

Honors Senior Design Project II

Undergraduate

BIOE 0844

The Bionic Human

Undergraduate

BIOE 2001

Frontiers in Bioengineering

Undergraduate

BIOE 3102

Biomaterials Lab

Undergraduate

BIOE 3302

Drug Delivery

Undergraduate

BIOE 3401

Biodesign - Testing and Validation

Undergraduate

BIOE 3402

Design Elective: Biodesign

Undergraduate

BIOE 3511

Interactions of Biomaterials with Living Tissues

Undergraduate

Selected Publications

  • Gerstenhaber, J.A. & Har-El, Y. (2021). Virtual Biomaterials Lab During COVID-19 Pandemic. Biomed Eng Educ, 1(2), pp. 353-358. Switzerland. doi: 10.1007/s43683-020-00045-6

  • Phelan, M.A., Guha, A., Harrison, B.K., Moukarzel, G., Tetteh, A.A., Har-El, Y.E., & Ochia, R. (2020). WIP: Design thinking concepts in undergraduate engineering capstone projects. ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings, 2020-June.

  • Phelan, M., Guha, A., Harrison, B., Moukarzel, G., Tetteh, A., Har-el, Y., & Ochia, R. (2020). Design-thinking Concepts in Undergraduate Engineering Capstone Projects. doi: 10.18260/1-2--34399

  • Timnak, A., Gerstenhaber, J.A., Dong, K., Har-El, Y., & Lelkes, P.I. (2018). Gradient porous fibrous scaffolds: a novel approach to improving cell penetration in electrospun scaffolds. Biomed Mater, 13(6), p. 065010. England. doi: 10.1088/1748-605X/aadbbe

  • Senel-Ayaz, H.G., Har-El, Y.E., Ayaz, H., & Lelkes, P.I. (2018). Textile technologies for 3D scaffold engineering. In Functional 3D Tissue Engineering Scaffolds: Materials, Technologies, and Applications (pp. 175-201). doi: 10.1016/B978-0-08-100979-6.00008-2

  • Senel-Ayaz, H.G., Har-El, Y., Ayaz, H., & Lelkes, P.I. (2018). 8 Textile technologies for 3D scaffold engineering. In Functional 3D Tissue Engineering Scaffolds (pp. 175-201). doi: 10.1016/b978-0-08-100979-6.00008-2