Dr John P. Fisher is the Fischell Family Distinguished Professor and Associate Chair in the Fischell Department of Bioengineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD. He will be studying biomaterials and tissue engineering while at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

Dr Brian Reed is Professor and Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Maryland. Dr. Reed will be based at the Dublin Institute of Technology where he will lecture, collaborate and undertake research in the area of ‘Improving Group/Project based Learning and the First-Year Engineering Experience’.