Conference: Student Support for 2011 Summer Bioengineering Conference, Naples, Florida, June 22-26, 2011

1109514，VorpThis项目将支持2011年6月22日至26日在佛罗里达那不勒斯举行的2011年夏季生物工程会议。NSF的资金将有助于减少学生注册费;并帮助资助年度学生论文竞赛的奖项（奖项的存在被认为会增加参与，从而增加学生出席本次会议）。这次会议的一个标志是严格的工程原理和生物概念的相互作用和真正的整合。 会议形式将是6个平行的口头报告会议。大约三分之一到一半的论文将以海报形式提交。一本小册子将向会议与会者提供方案细节。所有的技术报告都将是两页的扩展摘要，并以CD格式编辑，分发给所有注册者。学术价值：SBC是一个非常高质量的科学和智力刺激的跨学科会议。这是生物工程的首次会议，重点是生物力学工程。该会议汇集了不同的生物工程社区，包括细胞和分子工程，组织工程，心血管工程等，它是由几个著名的生物工程相关学会共同主办。本次会议所要求的资金是增加和提高学生与会者的参与，以帮助确保我们领域的未来。 在2011年SBC全体讲座将突出与所有与会者相关的讲座，特别是对学生与会者的启发杰出的演讲者。ElazerEdelman博士（麻省理工学院和哈佛）将发表一个关于血管生物技术的演讲，来自一位临床科学家？罗杰·奎因博士（凯斯西储大学）将讲授以自然为灵感设计的机器人和机制，以执行任务，以更好地帮助残疾人。大挑战？活动和我们通常的三个颁奖讲座将在2011年SBC举行。在2009年和2010年成功举办的类似活动的基础上，将举办预测体内膝关节载荷的大挑战比赛。本次比赛的目的是通过使用从实际患者中收集的测力膝关节植入物的数据，严格评估步态期间膝关节的肌肉力量估计，从而推进整个肌肉骨骼建模领域。参赛者将获得关键的生物力学数据，并被要求使用他们独特的计算模型来预测膝关节接触力，并将其与测量值进行比较。将举办的研讨会包括？帮助残疾人的研究前沿？，?资助研究景观，以帮助残疾人？，?生物工程师的指导？，?组织工程学博士?骨科研究的360度视角？然后呢？机械循环支持？最后，三个分部奖的获奖者将发表激励人心的演讲。冯耀昌奖、货车茂奖、人力资源利斯纳奖--以彰显三个不同的职业水平？分别是早中晚。学生和年轻的专业与会者特别受益于这些获奖者的演讲。更广泛的影响：除了本次会议将对主流生物工程社区产生直接影响外，它还将发挥重要的交叉作用。我们希望有生物工程师，来自其他学科的工程师，细胞和分子生物学家，生物化学家，生物药理学家和其他科学家参加会议。通过这种方式，这次会议将产生更广泛的影响，而不是仅仅由生物工程界参加。 最重要的是，我们预计超过50%的与会者将是学生和其他实习生（博士后）。这将为当今时代以及未来提供广泛的影响，因为这些学生将通过参加会议并通过全体演讲者和研讨会提供的材料受益。此外，通过载有技术会议记录的光盘和会议网站，会议上介绍的信息将提供给多个社会和广大公众。

1109514, VorpThis project will support the 2011 Summer Bioengineering Conference in Naples, Florida on Jun 22-26, 2011. The NSF funds will aid in reducing student registration fees; and to help fund awards for the annual Student Paper Competition (the existence of awards is believed to increase participation and hence student attendance to this meeting). A hallmark of this meeting is the interaction and true integration of rigorous engineering principles and biologic concepts. The conference format will be 6 parallel sessions of oral presentations. Approximately a third to half of the accepted papers will be presented in poster format. A booklet will provide program details to the participants of the conference. All technical presentations will be two-page extended abstracts and compiled in a CD format, distributed to all registrants.Intellectual Merit: The SBC is an extremely high quality scientific and intellectually stimulating interdisciplinary meeting. It is the premiere meeting for bioengineering with a focus on biomechanical engineering. The conference brings together the different bioengineering communities including cell and molecular engineering, tissue engineering, cardiovascular engineering, etc. It is co-sponsored by several prestigious bioengineering related societies. The requested funding for this meeting is to increase and enhance the participation of student attendees, to help ensure the future of our field. Plenary lectures at the 2011 SBC will highlight an outstanding speaker with lectures relevant for all attendees, and especially inspiring for student attendees. Dr. Elazer Edelman (MIT and Harvard) will deliver a lecture on vascular biotechnology from a clinician-scientist?s perspective.Dr. Roger Quinn (Case Western Reserve University) will lecture on nature-inspired design of robots and mechanisms to perform tasks to better assist people with disabilities.Six workshops, one ?Grand Challenge? event and our usual three award lectures will be held at the 2011 SBC. The Grand Challenge Competition to Predict Knee Loads in Vivo will build on successful similar events held in both 2009 and 2010. The aim of this competition is to advance the entire field of musculoskeletal modeling by critically evaluating muscle force estimates at the knee during gait using data collected from an actual patient with a force-measuring knee implant. Competitors will be given access to key biomechanical data and asked to use their unique computational models to predict knee contact forces which will be compared to those that are measured. Workshops to be held will include ?Frontiers in Research to Aid People with Disabilities?, ?Funding Landscape in Research to Aid People with Disabilities?, ?Mentoring of and for Bioengineers?, ?Gradients in Tissue Engineering?, ?360 Degree View in Orthopedics Research? and ?Mechanical Circulatory Support?. Finally, stimulating lectures will be given by the winners of the three Divisional awards ? YC Fung Award, Van Mow Medal, HR Lissner Award - to highlight three different career levels ? early, mid and late, respectively. Student and young professional attendees particularly benefit from hearing from these award winners.Broader Impact: In addition to the direct impact this conference will have on the mainstream bioengineering community, it will serve an important cross-fertilization role. We expect to have bioengineers, engineers from other disciplines, cell and molecular biologists, biochemists, biophysicists, and other scientists participating in the meeting. In that manner, this conference will have a much broader impact than if it were to be attended by just the bioengineering community. Most importantly, we expect that more than 50% of the attendees will be students and other trainees (post-docs). This will provide a broad impact for the current times as well as for the future as these students will benefit by participation in the meeting and through the material presented by the plenary speakers and workshops. Furthermore, through the CD containing technical proceedings and conference web site, information presented at the meeting will be available to multiple societies and to the public at large.