ADVANCE Fellows Award

高级研究员奖

• 批准号: 0340770
• 负责人: Dawnlee Roberson
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Texas at San Antonio
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-03-01 至 2010-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0340770&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ADVANCE; Fellows; Award

This ADVANCE Fellows award is to support the academic career of the PI in engineering. The PI plans to develop a strong, coordinated program of research and education in biomedical engineering. The planned research consists of two lines of investigation: (i) continuation of her efforts to determine a correlation between the muscle control signal measured at the nerve, at the muscle and the force generated; (ii) development of a new area of research, gait analysis. The central hypothesis for the electrophysiology research is that an automated methodology can be designed to produce accurate information on central nervous system intent, and hence, a correlative index of activation can be derived. Bipedal gait (walking on two legs) is one of the most complex tasks to master, and normal gait is well documented. Computerized gait analysis provides very accurate information about joint motion muscle activation, and the PI plans to use this tool to study gait in diabetics. The broader impacts of this research are significant for health care delivery, with collaborations established with researchers in biology as well as engineering. The planned education activities include the further development of two graduate courses, one teaching mathematical skills for research and the other on gait analysis. It is expected that the these topics will be very attractive to women and Hispanic students, and the PI has a strong commitment to advancing diversity in this engineering field. The overall mission of the ADVANCE Program is to increase the participation of women in the scientific and engineering workforce through the increased representation and advancement of women in academic science and engineering careers. It is anticipated that the ADVANCE award will not only advance the PI's career in academic science, but also allow her to serve as a role model and mentor to women students who are pursuing careers in academic science, engineering, or related fields. The award will be managed by two directorates, BES and ECS, given the nature of the research.

该预先研究员奖是为了支持PI工程学的学术生涯。 PI计划制定生物医学工程研究和教育的强大，协调的计划。计划的研究包括两条调查：（i）她继续努力确定在神经，肌肉和产生的力下测得的肌肉控制信号之间的相关性； （ii）开发新的研究领域，步态分析。 电生理学研究的中心假设是可以设计一种自动化方法来产生有关中枢神经系统意图的准确信息，因此可以得出激活的相关指数。 两足步态（在两条腿上行走）是要掌握的最复杂的任务之一，正常步态已得到充分记录。 计算机步态分析提供了有关关节运动肌肉激活的非常准确的信息，PI计划使用此工具研究糖尿病患者的步态。 这项研究的更广泛的影响对于医疗保健提供了重要的影响，并与生物学和工程研究人员建立了合作。计划中的教育活动包括进一步发展两个研究生课程，一种教学研究技能，另一种是步态分析。预计这些主题将对女性和西班牙裔学生非常有吸引力，并且PI致力于推进该工程领域的多样性。预先计划的总体使命是通过增加妇女在学术科学和工程职业中的代表性和进步来增加妇女在科学和工程劳动力中的参与。 可以预料，预先奖项不仅会推进PI在学术科学领域的职业，而且还可以使她成为正在从事学术科学，工程或相关领域从事职业的女学生的榜样和导师。鉴于研究的性质，该奖项将由两个局和ECS管理。