Position Title
Assistant Professor of Teaching
Biomedical Engineering
Professional Quick Summary:
- Established lab: April 2023
- Established due to: Health, Equity, and Wellness (HEW) departmental committee
- Vice Chair of Membership, American Society of Engineering Education, Pacific Southwest Section (ASEE-PSW)
- Cube³ publications: 4 (1 first-author, 3 corresponding author)
- Cube³ presentations: 9 (2 invited)
- Acquired research funding: $70,000+ internal
- Awards: 3 (1 at regional level, 2 at school level)
Bio:
Dr. Xianglong Wang is the leader of the Cube³ (Coalescing Undergraduate Biomedical Engineers' Educational Experience) Lab. The Cube³ lab performs engineering educational research that primarily aims to benefit Biomedical Engineering (BME) students at UC Davis but are currently engaged in multiple efforts to improve the educational environment in engineering. Our signature is quantitative methods in engineering education.
Dr. Wang is currently engaged in these efforts on campus:
- Center for Neuroengineering Steering Committee
- Quarter at Aggie Square, Faculty coordinator for the Biomedical Engineering at the Health Campus
- Biomedical Engineering Graduate Group Graduate Advisor and Executive Committee
- BME Health, Equity, and Wellness departmental committee
More info:
For current teaching portfolio of the lab, please see Teaching. Current research projects of the lab can be found at our Research Interests. If you are looking for an opportunity to join the lab, please see Opening? to see the requirements and whether we have openings.
- Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering and Scientific Computing, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, 2020
- American Society of Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Section Outstanding Early Career Teaching Award, 2024
- Biomedical Engineering Excellence in Teaching Award, UC Davis, 2023
- Reid Miller Teaching Excellence Award, Washington State University, 2022
- Community Building
- Engineering Identity
- Problem-Based Learning
- Machine Learning
- Tamura, A.A., Chan, T.M. and Wang, X., 2024. Work in Progress: Fostering the Development of Engineering Identity in First-Year Women Engineering Students Through First-Year Seminars. In 15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference.
- Chan, T.M., Chatfield, T.L. and Wang, X., 2024. Work in Progress: Investigation of Student-Faculty Micro-Interactions on Students’ Sense of Belonging through Organized Student-Faculty Lunches. In 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition.
- Wang, X., Sahiner, B., Scully, C.G., Cha, K. H., 2023. AFE-GAN: Synthesizing Electrocardiograms with Atrial Fibrillation Characteristics Using Generative Adversarial Networks, Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) 2023.
- Wang, X., Lin, D. C. 2023. Work in Progress: A Themed Problem-Learning Redesign of Bioinstrumentation Lectures. 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition.