Experiments for Integrating BME Concepts into the ECE Curriculum

将 BME 概念融入 ECE 课程的实验

• 批准号: 0231350
• 负责人: Robi Polikar
• 金额: $ 7.44万
• 依托单位: Rowan University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-06-01 至 2007-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0231350&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Experiments; Integrating; BME; Concepts; into

Biomedical engineering (BME) is one of the fastest growing fields, with an expected job growth rate that is twice that of the overall job growth rate in the US. However, there are only 22 schools offering accredited undergraduate degrees in BME, and most schools do not have the resources to offer new degree programs. The resulting gap between the demand for qualified BME professionals and the programs for educating them constitutes a significant, yet unmet, national need. Our goal has been to develop a new educational paradigm to help reduce this gap. Our paradigm is based on a general method for introducing novel multidisciplinary content into core engineering curriculum. Our methodology consists of the integration of content specific laboratory experiments into core courses to provide essential background, followed by an elective providing topical depth. BME is used as the novel content and electrical and/or computer engineering (ECE) as the core curriculum. The method is versatile, as it can be easily modified to integrate other novel multidisciplinary content into any engineering program to provide a better-rounded engineering education. The implementation of this method has two specific objectives: first to provide ECE students with fundamental and contemporary BME knowledge for future career and graduate study opportunities; and second to improve students' interest in and comprehension of ECE concepts by acquainting them with engineering solutions to real world problems in medicine. These objectives are being achieved by integrating a set of experiments - designed to demonstrate a wide spectrum of BME concepts - into core ECE courses, along with a new elective providing a comprehensive BME overview. A major outcome of our project is a learning paradigm, which can serve as a model for integrating novel content into core engineering curriculum. The full development of our approach will serve as a building block for future undergraduate minor / concentration programs in a variety of novel content areas, such as biomedical engineering.

生物医学工程（BME）是增长最快的领域之一，预计就业增长率是美国整体就业增长率的两倍。然而，只有22所学校提供经认证的BME本科学位，大多数学校没有资源提供新的学位课程。对合格的BME专业人员的需求与教育他们的计划之间的差距构成了一个重要的，但尚未满足的国家需求。我们的目标是开发一种新的教育模式来帮助缩小这一差距。我们的范例是基于将新颖的多学科内容引入核心工程课程的一般方法。我们的方法包括将内容特定的实验室实验整合到核心课程中，提供必要的背景知识，然后是提供专题深度的选修课程。BME作为新内容，电气和/或计算机工程（ECE）作为核心课程。该方法是通用的，因为它可以很容易地修改，将其他新颖的多学科内容整合到任何工程课程中，以提供更全面的工程教育。这种方法的实施有两个具体目标：第一，为ECE学生提供基础和当代BME知识，为未来的职业和研究生学习提供机会；第二，通过让学生了解实际医学问题的工程解决方案，提高他们对ECE概念的兴趣和理解。实现这些目标的方法是将一系列旨在展示广泛的生物力学力学概念的实验整合到欧洲经委会的核心课程中，并开设一门新的选修课，全面介绍生物力学力学。我们项目的一个主要成果是一个学习范式，它可以作为将新颖内容整合到核心工程课程中的模型。我们的方法的全面发展将成为未来各种新颖内容领域（如生物医学工程）的本科辅修/集中课程的基石。