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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