Developing Practical Abilities through a Teaching Reform of Tissue Engineering Course for Undergraduates

This work describes a teaching reform of Tissue Engineering course that designs a laboratory course for senior undergraduate students, where students are challenged with a real-life tissue engineering application and provided with a hands-on experience applying oriented biomaterial technology and cytotechnology by conducting an experiment. Forty senior undergraduate students coming from School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering in Beihang University attended the course. The laboratory course was designed to guide students in raising research questions, generating strong hypotheses, identifying appropriate methodologies, and collaborating with each other to solve problems. Feedback from students attended this course has indicated that, while students find the expectations challenging in the early stages of the course, finally they are able to increase awareness and deepened their understanding of this field. We hope that this kind of educational modality could spread out to other interdisciplinary fields and contribute to the fast development of modern interdisciplinary science and technology.