Praxis: Learning by Doing

Programs

The Quantitative Consulting Center

The Quantitiative Consulting Center takes on real statistical consulting projects for organizations that need answers, not homework.

Biola.IO Summer Engineering Internship (SEI)

People

Emilio Ramirez's Summer Internships with Zebrafish, Racing Suspensions, and Clean Water

Biola's Summer Engineering Internship puts lower-division undergraduates into client-driven research. Biola Junior Emilio Ramirez did internships with Zebrafish, Racing Suspension and Clean Water in 1 summer.

Projects

Engineering Underclassmen Proved Biola Racing's Suspension Geometry

Three engineering students in Biola's Summer Engineering Internship spent a summer in the kinematic equations behind double wishbone suspension, producing the validated parameter set Biola's Baja SAE team will fabricate.

Programs

Biola Summer Campers Built a Mars Rover, a Windmill, and a Marching Band

Inside Biola's Summer Engineering Camp, where high school students design and build working automatons in five days, guided by a professor who sees physics as a window into creation.

Projects

A Distillation Upgrade for Communities Without Clean Water

Three engineering students in Biola University's Summer Engineering Internship (SEI) upgraded a solar distillation unit for Life Giving Water International, a Christian NGO serving brackish-well communities in La Guajira, Colombia. Switching to copper condenser pipes alone improved condensation by 550%.

Projects

Biola Students Solved Lawrence Livermore's Particle Size Problem

Four Biola University math students attended security-protocol calls with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists and built the statistical models that identified which manufacturing variables control TATB particle size.

People

Jason Wilson on Statistics and Faith

A Biola mathematician published Statistics and Faith through IVP Academic in May 2026. Wilson also directs the Quantitative Consulting Center.

Projects

Biola Underclassmen Upgrade a Zebrafish Research Tunnel

Four engineering students in Biola's Summer Engineering Internship redesigned an existing swim tunnel into a $515 touchscreen-controlled research instrument with real-time flow measurement and validated laminar conditions.

Below is Aroldis Chapman with a sequence featured on MLB Now presented by Carlos Pena. Brian Kenny and Dan O’Dowd agreed that EvMPH explained why ‘bad things happen to good pitchers’.

Projects

The Data Behind Baseball's Hardest Problem

EvMPH explained why 'bad things happen to good pitchers'.

News

Biola AI Lab Wins Two Awards at the GLOO AI Hackathon

Biola sent two teams to Boulder and won two of nine awards against 700 competitors from 48 states.

Awards

The $40M Bet on Christian Technologists

The largest gift in Biola's history, from an anonymous Silicon Valley donor, is going into engineering garages and the next generation of tech leaders.

People

Yohan Lee: AI Can't Give You Ultimate Love

Dr. Yohan Lee, Biola's associate dean of technology, used My Holo Love to argue that AI companionship removes the friction that makes love real.

Events

High School Hackathon: Bring Ideas, Build Solutions

Biola's first high school AI hackathon awarded top prize to a team that had never written a line of code.

Two men holding an oversized check for $7000

News

Ephphatha Wins $7,000 at 2026 Startup Competition

The Biola CS team built a voice-to-ASL converter and kept winning.

Awards

Biola Robotics Beats Cal Poly to Reach Worlds

At the 2025 Gear Slingers Open, Biola's eight-member robotics team won the Design Award and earned a VEX Robotics World Championship invitation.