Materials have been used extensively in the biomedicine and healthcare for the fabrication of various medical devices, implants, sutures, dressings, and medical machinery for modern medicine.  Through this hands-on laboratory experience, students will create and evaluate material-enabled product solutions that would impact our society through a semester-long open-ended lab design project.  Project based learning techniques are used with actual implant samples in class and labs to demonstrate real-world applications of biomaterials. Students will design, develop and evaluate the performance of a biomaterial that is utilized for a real-world application.