News

05/06/2026 [ECE Senior Design] Amelia Koehn led the “Mighty Microvessels” senior design team to a first-place finish in the 2026 Engineering Design Showcase. Congrats!

04/21/2026 [ECE Awards] Amelia Koehn, Ava Hornung, and Cassidy Huynh were named Outstanding Senior, Junior, and Sophomore, respectively, at the ECE award banquet. These honors recognize excellence in GPA, leadership, and service. Congrats, Amelia, Ava, and Cassidy!

12/04/2025 [IEEE-NANOMED 2025] Dr. Zhu attended IEEE-NANOMED 2025 in Hong Kong. He chaired two invited sessions, “Smart Platforms for Real-Time Biosensing, Neuroengineering, and AI-Driven Diagnosis” and “Microenvironments and Mechanistic Models in Cancer, Infection, and Regeneration.” He also reunited with his advisors, Pak Kin Wong and Cecil Ting-Hsuan Chen, along with alumni from Dr. Wong’s lab.

10/11/2025 [BMES 2025] Dr. Zhu and his undergraduates Ava Hornung and Amelia Koehn attended BMES 2025 in San Diego, California. They presented their posters "Visualizing cancer invasion in a tissue-engineered tumor-microvessel model" and "Real-time gene expression mapping in a tissue-engineered microvessel." Congrats, Amelia and Ava!

12/02/2024 [IEEE-NANOMED 2024] Dr. Zhu attended IEEE-NANOMED 2024 in Honolulu, Hawaii and reunited with his advisors, Dr. Pak Kin Wong (Penn State) and Dr. Cecil Ting-Hsuan Chen (CityUHK). He hosted an invited session, "Biomedical Technology for Decoding Human Disease", presenting the sciences and applications of micro- and nano-scale technologies for modeling biological systems, revealing fundamental dieseae mechanisms and addressing clinical applications.

10/26/2024 [BMES 2024] Dr. Zhu presented at BMES 2024 in Baltimore, Maryland. His work, titled "An Endothelial-Smooth Muscle Cell Bilayer 3D Microvessel to Study Human Arteriole Inflammation", showcased a 3D tissue-engineered human arteriole model, providing a novel and promising platform for studying the structure and functions of human arteriole, paving the way for drug development targeting arteriole disorders.

08/18/2024 New openings are available to motivated students.

08/18/2024 Haosong Chen joined IBTEL in the Mike Wiegers Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Kansas State University.

08/18/2024 Dr. Eric Ninghao Zhu started his lab in the Mike Wiegers Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Kansas State University.