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Pedagogy in bioengineering: pipettes, practice and patience

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Strategies for hands-on and hands-off teaching, coupled with dynamic adaptation to students and science, enable effective pedagogy in bioengineering.

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Fig. 1: Ritu Raman (right), Eugene Bell Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, guiding a student in the laboratory.

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The author acknowledges support from the National Science Foundation CAREER Program.

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3D bioprinting-focused makerspace: https://shed.mit.edu/

BioMaker Space: https://biomakers.mit.edu/about-us/hhbms/

Open-source online resource (Molecular, Cellular, and Tissue Biomechanics Quizlet): https://www.mos.org/quizlet/molecular-cellular-and-tissue-biomechanics-quizlet

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