is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in electrical engineering at the University of Cincinnati. His research interests include microfluidics and MEMS for chemical and biological analyses. He was the teaching assistant for the Biomedical Microsystems course discussed in this paper. Ian Papautsky, University of Cincinnati IAN PAPAUTSKY received his Ph.D. in bioengineering from the University of Utah in 1999. He is currently a tenure-track Assistant Professor of in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Cincinnati. His research and teaching interests include application of MEMS and microfluidics to biology and medicine.