Students will act as bioengineers and apply the engineering design process to design, build, and test a device to separate cancer cells (lentils) and healthy cells (beans).
Learning Objectives:
- Understand what bioengineers do
- Understand how cancer is treated, and the difficulties in treating cancer
- Use the engineering design process to create and improve a tool to solve the presented problem
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