31st Annual International Conference of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society in Minneapolis, MN from September 2-6, 2009

0853913B。随着生物医学工程教育项目在过去几年中迅速发展，90多所大学的教师最近开发或正在开发生物医学技术创新，设计，原型设计，测试，评估，创业和相关社会/伦理问题的课程。 教授这些材料的方法是多种多样的，并且程序之间很少共享信息。第七届论坛（第六届为BME-IDEA -BioMedical Engineering - Innovation，Design，Entrepreneurship Alliance），我们将继续收集生物医学工程创新教育领域的关键人物，并继续开发我们在过去六届会议上开始的共享资源（休斯顿，2002年;弗朗西斯科，2003年1月和纳什维尔，2003年10月;费城，2004年10月;巴尔的摩，2005年9月;芝加哥，2006年10月）。此外，会议将包括来自生物医学技术行业、基金会和政府的意见领袖和远见者。我们相信BME-IDEA联盟在教育工作者规划教育体验以满足未来需求方面发挥着关键作用。2007年会议的主题是“教学设计和创业的创新”。“会议目标1）继续收集有关以下方面的数据：生物医学工程中涉及创新、设计、技术转让和创业精神的不同大学课程的初步经验。2）讨论目标、挑战，以及进一步发展这些项目的机会，包括工业和学术方面的观点。3）继续探索共享资源和创建社区的潜力-广泛的资产和工具，并招募参与者在现有的合作努力（例如，bmesktop门户网站，设计比赛，知识产权调查）智力优点过去的会议已经表明，许多可以通过汇集教师谁拥有创新的做法作为他们的共同目标，可以获得。在课程方法、课程设置、资金、设施、教学资源和团队学习方面有很多可以分享的地方。此外，通过听取行业，基金会和学术界其他领导人的意见，教师们可以更好地了解学生的发展方向，需要做些什么来为未来做好准备，以及其他人如何在他们的环境中满足这些需求。合作教育会议并不新鲜，当然，但专注于这些主题，创新，设计和创业，在BME的背景下是。更广泛的影响我们相信，这次会议，题为创新的教学设计和创业，将产生一个长期的利益，通过提供创新的教学资源和材料，以更大的观众通过发布在BME-IDEA.org网站。此外，与会者还可以将想法带回给参加我们会议的许多大学的同事。当网站上提供新的资源时，会通知所有过去的与会者，因此任何一次BME-IDEA会议都可以为90多所大学的教师提供额外的资源。

0853913B. HeAs educational programs in Biomedical Engineering have grown rapidly over the past several years, faculty at over ninety universities have recently developed or are developing courses in biomedical technology innovation, design, prototyping, testing, evaluation, entrepreneurship and associated social/ethical issues. Approaches to teaching this material are diverse and there is little shared information between programs. With this seventh forum (sixth as BME-IDEA -BioMedical Engineering - Innovation, Design, Entrepreneurship Alliance), we will continue to collect key figures in the area of education for biomedical engineering innovation and continue our development of shared resources begun at our past six conferences (Houston, 2002; San Francisco, January, 2003 and Nashville, October, 2003; Philadelphia, October, 2004; Baltimore, September 2005; Chicago, October 2006). In addition, the conference will include opinion leaders and visionaries from the biomedical technology industry, foundations and government. We believe the BME-IDEA alliance plays a key role in informing educators as they plan educational experiences to meet future needs. The theme of the 2007 conference is "Innovations in Teaching Design and Entrepreneurship."Conference Goals1) Continue collecting data re: the initial experience of different university programs involved in innovation, design, technology transfer and entrepreneurship in biomedical engineering.2) Discuss objectives, challenges, and opportunities for further development of these programs including industry and academic perspectives.3) Continue to explore the potential for sharing resources and creating community-wide assets and tools and recruit participants in the existing collaborative efforts (e.g. bmesource web portal, the design contest, IP survey)Intellectual MeritThe past meetings have shown that much can be gained by bringing together faculty who have innovative practices as their common goal. There is much to share in terms of approaches to courses, curriculum, funding, facilities, teaching resources and team-based learning. In addition, by hearing from leaders in industry, foundations and others in academia, the faculty members develop a better perspective on where their students are headed, what needs to be done to prepare them for the future and how others are meeting those needs in their environments. Collaborative education conferences are not new, of course, but focusing on these topics, Innovation, Design and Entrepreneurship, within the context of BME is.Broader ImpactWe believe that this conference, titled Innovations in Teaching Design and Entrepreneurship, will produce a long-lasting benefit by offering innovative teaching resources and materials to a larger audience through publication on the BME-IDEA.org website. In addition, attendees can take ideas back to their colleagues at the many universities that are represented at our conference. All past attendees of the meeting are notified when new resources are made available on the website, thus any one BME-IDEA meeting can provide additional resources to faculty at over ninety universities.