Alan Eberhardt

Professor and Associate Chair of Education, Department of Biomedical Engineering · University of Alabama at Birmingham · company speakers →

As Professor and Associate Chair of Education, Dr. Eberhardt oversees all activities related to undergraduate and graduate education in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at (UAB). He serves as the Undergraduate Program Director and works with the Graduate Program Director to help maintain and direct the curricula and teaching responsibilities for each program. For over 30 years, he has been an active and productive researcher in orthopedic and injury biomechanics at UAB and is the Director of the Experimental Biomechanics Core. With respect to mentoring, he has accumulated extensive experience leading innovation and design activities within the School of Engineering. As the recipient of NSF funding (21 years) and NIH funding (13 years), he has mentored student teams through work with clinicians and therapists to develop rehabilitation and assistive devices. He has served as instructor for the senior capstone sequences since 1995 and has coached hundreds of senior capstone students who have designed, constructed, and delivered new or modified prototype medical and rehab equipment. As Director for the Design & Commercialization track within the UAB Master of Science in Engineering Management, he brought these efforts to the graduate level and partnered with the Harbert Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship to promote commercialization of student design projects, primarily in rehabilitation and assistive technologies. He has won numerous teaching and mentorship awards, including the 2021 Graduate School Dean's Mentorship Award for Excellence in Mentorship, and the 2012 Ellen Gregg Ingalls UAB National Alumni Society Award for Lifetime Achievement in Teaching.

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