REU Site: University of Washington Engineered Biomaterials

EEC-0647918 Eric H.Chudler该奖项授予华盛顿大学工程生物材料(UWEB)的REU站点，将使本科生在团队环境中接触到生物与工程界面的尖端研究，强调跨学科方法解决生物材料开发等工程问题的价值。每个本科生都将成为一个合作团队的成员，团队中有一名研究生或博士后导师和一名教职员工参与他们的研究项目。该团队将把重点放在一个UWEB项目上，该项目是跨学科工程研究的一个很好的例子，并且与行业研究兴趣有关。为了加强研究经验，学生将被要求：1)参加每周一次的交流课程和期刊俱乐部，涉及口头陈述和写作技能；2)为他们的研究撰写一份期刊风格的报告以供出版；以及3)在一个小型研讨会上口头和海报展示他们的夏季研究。重点将放在利用传统黑人学院和大学(HBCU)和以少数族裔为主的机构建立的招聘联系，从代表性不足的群体中招收学生。参与者将在一个对生活质量具有重大且日益增长的全球影响的研究领域(例如心脏瓣膜、髋关节、起搏器、牙科植入物、引流管、人工晶状体和心脏辅助设备)获得宝贵的知识。

EEC-0647918Eric H. ChudlerThis award for an REU site at the University of Washington Engineered Biomaterials (UWEB) will expose undergraduate students to cutting-edge research at the biology and engineering interface in a team setting that stresses the value of interdisciplinary approaches to engineering problems such as biomaterial development. Each undergraduate will be a member of a collaborative team with a graduate student or postdoctoral fellow mentor and a faculty member as they undertake a research project. The team will focus on a UWEB project that is as a good example of interdisciplinary engineering research and one that has ties to industry research interests. To enhance the research experience the students will be required to:1)participate in a weekly communications course and journal club that deals with both oral presentation and writing skills, 2) write a journal style report of their research for publication; and 3) deliver an oral and poster presentation of their summer research in a mini-symposium session. Emphasis will be placed on recruiting students from underrepresented groups using established recruiting contacts at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and predominately minority institutions. Participants will gain valuable knowledge in an area of research that has significant and growing global impact on the quality of life (e.g. heart valves, hip joints, pacemakers, dental implants, drainage shunts, intraocular lenses, and heart-assist devices.