DeMatteis OverSEAS
Engineering with an International Focus
The DeMatteis OverSEAS Program is designed to prepare a select group of engineering students for careers with a global perspective. Candidates for the program are students who appreciate worldwide cultural diversity, and seek to promote the well-being of others through engineering solutions.
The program, which begins during a student’s freshman year, is comprised of standard engineering coursework with a focused liberal arts concentration, and a capstone summer design experience, which is completed over the course of approximately eight weeks on-site in a Central or South American country.
The program culminates with a real-world engineering project that is specifically designed to improve the infrastructure of a Central or South American community.
For more information contact:
Edward M. Segal, PhD, P. E., Assistant Professor
Phone: 516-463-7220
Email: edward.m.segal[at]hofstra.edu
Dr. Sina Rabbany
Dean
Fred DeMatteis School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Dr. Sina Y. Rabbany was appointed the dean of the Hofstra University's Fred DeMatteis School of Engineering and Applied Science, effective June 7, 2016. He is the Jean Nerken Distinguished Professor of Engineering and the founding director of the Bioengineering Program. He joined Hofstra in 1990 as an assistant professor of engineering to create the Hofstra Bioengineering Program, the first on Long Island. He was appointed associate professor in 1993, and promoted to professor of engineering in 1998.
Dr. Rabbany is currently doing research in the field of cellular and tissue engineering as applied to the vascular system. His primary focus is to investigate the impact of the biophysical microenvironment on the structure and function of endothelial cells – the cells that make up the structure of blood vessels. These cells are exposed to various physiological cues in vitro and interrogated with atomic force microscopy to map out changes in their material properties. This work addresses one of the major obstacles in engineering organs, the generation of functional vascular networks.
Dr. Rabbany and colleagues from Weill Cornell Medical College recently developed a technology to generate vascular constructs by utilizing scaffolds to promote 3-D structures of blood vessels to restore damaged or diseased organs. This could someday diminish the need for donated organs and transplants.
The author of more than 60 publications and patents in the areas of cardiovascular dynamics, biosensors, vascular biology and tissue engineering/regenerative medicine, Dr. Rabbany has received funding from numerous organizations, including the National Cancer Institute, the National Institutes of Health, and the Office of Naval Research. He received the Young Investigators Award from the Cardiovascular Systems Dynamics Society in 1992, the Achievement Award presented by the Engineers Joint Committee of Long Island in 2003, and the Athanasios Papoulis Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2009, and was selected to be a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical & Biological Engineering in 2012.
In addition to his work at Hofstra, Dr. Rabbany is an adjunct associate professor of bioengineering in medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College. He completed his undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
Fred DeMatteis School of Engineering and Applied Science