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Aaron Kyle is a Professor of the Practice in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University. His faculty role focuses on teaching undergraduates with an emphasis on hands-on, inquiry-based learning. Kyle teaches first year design, medical device instrumentation, and capstone design courses at Duke. In addition to working with undergraduates, Kyle is passionate about engendering engineering identity in Grades 6 – 12 students, particularly in students from underrepresented minority groups or disadvantaged backgrounds. He co-founded and leads the Outreach Design Education (ODE) Program, an NIH-funded set of activities that revolve around enhancing STEM identity in younger students through engineering design education. As a result of ODE, over 1000 students in New York and North Carolina have been introduced to engineering design through ODE-associated pre-college programs and courses.
Kyle received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Kettering University ('02) and his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Purdue University ('07). He gave the Diversity Lecture plenary talk at the 2020 BMES Annual Meeting. He is a fellow of the AIMBE and BMES and serves on the BMES Board of Directors.