Jennifer Amos

Emergency ventilator for COVID-19

PLoS ONE · 2020 · 45 citations

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the world in 2020 by spreading at unprecedented rates and causing tens of thousands of fatalities within a few months. The number of deaths dramatically increased in regions where the number of patients in need of hospital care exceeded the availability of care. Many COVID-19 patients experience Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), a condition that can be treated with mechanical ventilation. In response to the need for mechanical ventilators, designed and t…

Designing Capstone Experiences for Interdisciplinarity in Biomedical Engineering Education

2024 · 9 citations

Abstract Teamwork is a mainstay of today's workplace environment. This is especially true in healthcare and engineering fields, where work is so interdependent that teams are a dominant means to facilitating progress. Design and capstone courses are one of the places where biomedical engineering students develop skills needed for success in a team-based workplace. Our department participates in several levels of design across programs. This includes Capstone in the Bachelors (BS) program, Profes…

Intersecting Identities of Women in Engineering

2020 · 8 citations

Mendenhall's research focuses on racial microaggressions in higher education. She examines how living in racially segregated neighborhoods with high levels of violence affects Black mothers' mental and physical health using qualitative, quantitative and genomic analysis. She uses

Overview of Biomedical Engineering Graduate Education Landscape

Biomedical Engineering Education · 2024-06-26 · 4 citations

A Digital Book Based Pedagogy to Improve Course Content Accessibility for Students with and without Disabilities in Engineering or other STEMcourses (WIP)

2024 · 3 citations

Accessibility of course content plays a critical role in student success. Among all college students, students with disabilities (SWD) face numerous additional challenges when digital content is inaccessible or difficult to use. The main contributions of this paper are firstly we examined different course delivery modalities to identify components that engage both SWD and students without disabilities (SWOD) and secondly, present new accessibility features for digital book creation that were imp…