Professor of Chemical Engineering
Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering
Faculty Bio
Professor of Chemical Engineering
Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering
Faculty Bio
Biomaterials Engineering Education Research and Mentorship
In collaboration with Dr. Andrea Vernengo, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rowan University; Dr. James Iatridis, Professor of Orthopaedics and Neurology at ISMMS; Dr. Woojin Han, Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics at ISMMS; Dr. Stephanie Rabile, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Delaware; Dr. Gabriela Graziani, Assistant Professor at Università Telematica San Raffaele in Rome, Italy; and Dr. Mili Shah, Professor of Mathematics at Cooper Union.Since 2020, I’ve been focused on innovating ways to educate students in biomedically-oriented topics, mainly biomaterials. Besides the senior partners listed, this pursuit of new pedagogy in biomaterials spans Cooper Union undergraduate and graduate students and ISMMS graduate and post-doctoral students working alongside me in engineering education endeavors. Recently, I’ve started working with post-doctoral students from the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS)
One multi-year project is the creation and implementation of hands-on, inquiry based-learning in the classroom. Students work alongside the senior collaborators to create new modules that then run in EID222 – Biomaterials or with external universities. The students who take EID222 and learn through these modules may choose to help us create new modules for future classes when they join VIPXD – Frontiers of Bioengineering. Following the undergraduate student experience in education research, the students then join the senior collaborators on translational projects, such as those listed in the Current Research Projects section of this document. Additionally, I have been studying the impact of using a technique such as this to create a pipeline to train students at a younger age to participate in much more complex translational biomaterials research.
A second project that has begun in the past year is studying the incorporation of the entrepreneurial mindset into the classroom. This externally funded project has three institutes running these activities in similar courses/methods. I have begun incorporating the entrepreneurial activities into EID222 and will assess how this new pedagogy may influence the undergraduates of Cooper Union.
Work Associated with All Projects
Publications
- Panebianco, C.J., Iatridis, J.C., Weiser, J.R., “Development of an At-home Metal Corrosion Laboratory Experiment for STEM Outreach in Biomaterials During the Covid-19 Pandemic” Paper presented at 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual Conference, 2021 Jul. doi:10.18260/1-2--36966
- Panebianco C.J.; Iatridis J.C.; Weiser J.R., “Teaching Principles of Biomaterials to Undergraduate Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic with At-Home Laboratory Experiments” Journal of Chemical Engineering Education” Chemical Engineering Education 2022 Feb:56 (1). doi: 10.18260/2-1-370.660-125552
- Panebianco, C.J., Dutta, P., Frost, J.R., Huang, A., Kim, O. S., Iatridis, J.C., Vernengo, A.J., Weiser, J.R., “Teaching Tissue Repair Through and Inquiry-Based Learning Bioadhesives Module”, Biomedical Engineering Education 2022/11. doi: 10.1007/s43683-022-00087-y.
- Panebianco, C.J., Bhadouira, N., Kim, O. S., Frost, J.R., Huang, A., Dutta, P., Vernengo, A.J., Weiser, J.R., “An Inquiry-Based Learning STEM Outreach Module to Teach Principles of Bioadhesives and Tissue Repair”, Paper presented at the 2023 ASEE Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD, 2023 June. doi: 10.18260/1-2--42628
- Pfluger, C., Weiser, J.R., Horvat, K., “Incorporating Hands-on, Inquiry-based Learning Modules into the Chemical Engineering Classroom”, Chemical Engineering Education, Winter 2023; 58(1):12-21.
Conferences
- ASEE 2021 – Christopher Panebianco (presenter), et al. – “Development of an At-home Metal Corrosion Laboratory Experiment for STEM Outreach in Biomaterials During the Covid-19 Pandemic”
- AIChE 2021 – Christopher Panebianco (presenter), et al. – “Teaching Principles of Biomaterials during the COVID-19 Pandemic with at-Home Inquiry-Based Learning Laboratory Experiments”
- ORS 2022 – Christopher Panebianco (presenter), et al. – “At-Home Inquiry-Based Learning Experiments for Biomaterials Education and Outreach During COVID-19”
- AIChE 2022 – Alec Svenson (presenter), et al. – “Graduate Involvement in Vertically Integrated Projects for Biomaterials Education Research”
- AIChE 2022 – Christopher Panebianco, Poorna Dutta, Jillian Frost, Angela Huang, Oliva Kim (presenter), et al. – “Assessment of an Inquiry-Based Learning Bioadhesive Module to Teach Principles of Tissue Repair”
- ORS 2023 – Christopher Panebianco (presenter), Poorna Dutta, Jillian Frost, Angela Huang, Oliva Kim, et al. – “Teach Principles of Bioadhesives Through an Inquire-Based Learning Module” (C. Panebianco nominated for New Investigator Recognition Award)
- ASEE 2023 – Christopher Panebianco, Neharika Bhadouria, Poorna Dutta, Jillian Frost, Angela Huang, Oliva Kim, Jennifer Weiser (Presenter) – “An Inquiry-Based Learning STEM Outreach Module to Teach Principles of Bioadhesives and Tissue Repair”
- AIChE 2023 – Janina Li, Zareena Al-Shehab (Presenter), Mekhi Vazquez, Olivia Kim, et al. – “Experimental Design for Biomaterials Education: 3D Bioprinting”
- ORS 2024 – Christopher Panebianco and Jennifer Weiser (Presenter), et al. – “Developing an Undergraduate Education Pipeline into Orthopaedic Research”
Senior Unit Operations Laboratory Improvements
In collaboration with Professor Ben Davis, Professor of Chemical Engineering at Cooper Union.
This projected worked to devise a new bioreactor experiment using beer fermentation as an inexpensive model system for the senior unit operations laboratory. This work has been presented at the annual AIChE meeting twice by students of Cooper Union.Work Associated with All Projects
Conferences
- AIChE 2023 – Anastasiya Islamova (Presenter) and Iram Rahman, et al. – “Beer Brewing as a Practical Application of Chemical Engineering Fundamentals in Lab and Design”
- AIChE 2024 – Eveyln Schwartsman (Presenter), et al. – “Developing a Hands-on Hops Analysis of Beer Brewing for the Chemical Engineering Laboratory”