Research-Curriculum Development in Tissue Engineering

德雷克塞尔大学组织工程学的CRCD项目是Cato Laurencin教授和Frank Ko教授三年多来在先进生物材料领域的合作研究和团队教学的成果，以及组织工程实验室与讲座相结合的课程，强调团队合作、实验室技能和沟通。研究活动分为五个关键领域，包括：先进生物材料、细胞-组织-结构相互作用、支架设计和制造、生物表面和计算机辅助组织工程。该课程旨在为各种工程和理科MS和BS/MS项目提供最大的灵活性。在为组织工程专业设计的六门课程中，有三门是新课程，三门是在现有课程的基础上进行修改的。这些课程是实验室密集型课程，重点是团队项目。将采用以网络为基础的成果评估方法来评估课程。这一课程开发提案的关键和独特之处在于：1)该方案利用基于网络的学习技术，这不仅将鼓励学生主动学习，而且一旦该课程的有效性得到验证，将允许在地方和国家一级迅速传播该课程的组成部分。2)该计划包括通过本·富兰克林技术伙伴计划(Ben Franklin Technology Partnership Program)提供强有力的产业支持。本·富兰克林技术伙伴计划是一个国家资助的学术界-产业界联络组织，该组织承诺提供种子资金，开始课程计划的工业部分。3)该项目有着不同寻常的坚定承诺，通过与宾夕法尼亚州林肯大学的联系，培养组织工程领域代表性不足的少数族裔科学家。林肯大学是美国历史上最古老的黑人学院。

This CRCD program in Tissue Engineering at Drexel University, is an outgrowth of over three years of collaborative research and team teaching by Professors Cato Laurencin and Frank Ko in advanced biomaterials and a combined laboratory-lecture course in tissue engineering wherein team work, laboratory skills and communication are stressed. The research activities are organized into five key areas including: advanced biomaterials, cell-tissue-construct interaction, scaffold design and manufacturing, bio-surfaces, and computer aided tissue engineering. The curriculum is designed to give maximum flexibility to be adopted to various engineering and science MS and BS/MS programs. Of the six courses designed for the specialization in Tissue Engineering, three of them are new courses and three are modified from existing courses. These courses are laboratory intensive with emphasis on team projects. A web-based outcome assessment methodology will be employed to evaluate the curriculum. The key and unique features of this curriculum development proposal are:1)The program utilizes web-based learning techniques which not only will encourage student initiated learning, but will allow rapid dissemination of components of the curriculum at the local and national level, once the efficacy of the curriculum is validated. 2)The program involves strong industrial support through the Ben Franklin Technology Partnership Program, a state funded academia-industry liaison organization, which has pledged seed funds to begin the industrial component of the curriculum program. 3) The program has an unusually strong commitment to developing underrepresented minority scientists in Tissue Engineering through links with Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, the nation's oldest historically Black college.