Marcia A Pool

Marcia A Pool is a Teaching Associate Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Illinois. She holds additional roles as Assistant Director for Education at the Cancer Center at Illinois and Affiliate at the Siebel Center for Design. Her work focuses on enhancing engineering education through innovative pedagogy, graduate teaching development, and community engagement initiatives.

Research interests include:

• Development of entrepreneurial mindset through international experiences
• Collaborative learning strategies in biomedical engineering curricula
• Integration of service-learning with K-12 education
• Impact of teaching assistant training programs

Recent publications emphasize educational methodologies in bioengineering, with contributions to laboratory module design and assessment of teaching initiatives. She has actively collaborated with educators and institutions to bridge academic and community needs through service-learning programs.

Marcia's work extends to curriculum development in convergent engineering approaches, focusing on interdisciplinary problem-solving in tissue microenvironment analysis. Her research often intersects with grand challenges in healthcare and education equity.