Penn State Center for Neural Engineering
Neural engineering is a discipline that uses engineering techniques to understand, repair, replace, enhance, or treat the diseases of neural systems. Neural engineers are uniquely qualified to solve design problems at the interface of living neural tissue and non-living constructs.
See June, 2008 article at Technology Review
Center for Neural Engineering
- Steven J. Schiff Director
- Bruce J. Gluckman Associate Director
- Corina Drapaca, Assistant Professor, Engineering Sciences and Mechanics
Teaching
Research
The Penn State Center for Neural Engineering is a university-wide Center, bridging the campuses and Colleges of Engineering and Science at University Park, with the College of Medicine at Hershey. It is housed within facilities of the Department of Neurosurgery and the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics.
The Center is positioned to facilitate and enable collaboration between faculty from the Huck Institutes for the Life Sciences, Materials Research, and Neuroscience Institutes at Penn State, and forms a physical conduit for faculty and students from across the Engineering Departments, the Integrative Biosciences Neuroscience Program, Physics, Mathematics, and Biology, as well as trainees and faculty from Neurosurgery, Neurology, and Psychiatry. The Center has resident core faculty, with a considerable number of faculty Affiliates drawn from University Park and Hershey.
The Center enables the successful conduct of interdisciplinary research and acquisition of funding for projects that individual Penn State scientists could not perform on their own…
Detailed description of the Center for Neural Engineering
Penn State Medicine Magazine Article Winter 2006
Engineering the Brain, Materials Research Institute Bulletin, Fall 2007
Outreach
With support from a Grace Woodward Grant for Collaborative Research in Engineering and Medicine, we are developing active collaborations with scientists and physicians working on improving the diagnosis and treatment of neurosurgical diseases in East Africa.
Schedules
CNE Weekly Schedule
Neural Engineering and Neuroscience Seminars
Meetings of Interest
Meetings Organized / Co-organized
- Implanting Change - The Ethics of Neural Prosthetics
NIMH Supported Conference on the Ethics of Neural Prosthetics, August 26-28, 2007
- NIH Grantsmanship Workshop at PSU
August 28, 2007, 2:30-4:30, Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building (broadcast to Hershey Room CG623)
People
