Jenny Amos
Teaching Professor, Laura Hahn Faculty Fellow, Bioengineering
Jenny Amos is a Teaching Professor of Bioengineering and Laura Hahn Faculty Fellow at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research emphasizes the need for robust assessment practices to understand students’ processes of learning in BME Education and Medical Education. Amos has been PI and co-PI of many NSF-funded engineering education projects centered around understanding students’ pathways to the profession of engineering and the development of professional skills in engineering curricula. Amos also performs medicine-related research to understand decision-making processes in surgical planning using virtual reality (VR). She is an ABET Executive Committee member, a fellow of BMES and AIMBE, and the Chair of the BMES Education Committee.