Samuel Bechara
Associate Dean Of Academic Affairs
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamuel Bechara is an educator-leader and biomedical engineer who blends deep classroom experience with entrepreneurial and research achievements, now serving as Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at Colorado State University. With a PhD in Biomedical Engineering and a decade-plus career spanning teaching, curricular innovation, and industry roles (including co-founding Hyperion Labs), he focuses 90% of his time on mentoring students and advancing hands-on, problem-based learning. A multiple teaching-award winner (George T. Abell Award for Teaching and Mentoring, 2021), Samuel builds open-source outreach tools—like an EMG-controlled "muscle car" summer camp—and integrates real-world device development into coursework. He has a track record of creating novel labs and outreach programs that demystify engineering for underrepresented students, and bridges academic rigor with practical commercialization experience.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctorate of Philosophy, Biomedical Engineering, Doctorate of Philosophy, Biomedical Engineering at Colorado State UniversityBachelor of Science, Bioengineering, Bachelor of Science, Bioengineering at Washington State University
English
Github Skills (4)
camp5
matlab3
python2
octave2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
sbechara/introduction_to_engineering
Oct 2020 - Sep 2022
Contributions:6 commits, 43 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
sbechara/costPerCredit
Jan 2019 - Aug 2022
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
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