Dr. Aaron Kyle

Biography

Aaron M. Kyle focuses on enhancing undergraduate education by teaching First Year Design and Senior Design Bioinstrumentation. He aspires to create new courses that provide robust design experiences for undergraduates in their final years of study, devising methods for researching efficacy while intentionally addressing DEI issues in design projects and engineering education. In 2014, he created and launched the HYPOTHEKids (Hk) Maker Lab, an NIH-funded set of programs focused on introducing underprivileged and underrepresented minority high school students in New York City to engineering design and biomedical research. The program has enabled 160 high school students to learn the applied bio-engineering design process and has propelled them towards internships in the biomedical laboratory and biotechnology industry, ultimately encouraging the pursuit of STEM majors. He has also guided NYC teachers in the development of engineering design-centric courses for middle and high school students, which are currently taught in seven NYC high schools, impacting around 1000 students. Since moving to Duke, Dr. Kyle is working to replicate these efforts for students and teachers in Durham, NC, and surrounding communities. He received a BS in Electrical Engineering from Kettering University in 2002 and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Purdue University in 2007. Before joining Duke, he conducted postdoctoral research at the Indiana University School of Medicine and was a faculty member in BME at Columbia University from 2010, proudly serving as a Senior Lecturer for twelve years. He moved to Duke University in 2022 and is a member of the Eta Kappa Nu and Tau Beta Pi engineering honor societies. He is also a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering and delivered the Diversity Award Lecture at the 2020 BMES Annual Meeting.

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