Workshop on Biotransport Education during Summer Bioengineering Conferences, Farmington, PA, June 22-25, 2011 and Summer 2012

[127262]这次生物运输教育研讨会的长期目标是改善生物运输教育。美国机械工程师学会（ASME）生物工程分会（BED）生物运输委员会在2002年进行的一项调查显示，A)越来越多的机构正在教授生物运输；B)在许多情况下，它是在运输基础的基础课程中提供的，而不是作为运输的特殊或高级应用；C)长期缺乏学习材料，特别是那些处理生物热传递的材料；d) ASME BED为组织生物运输学院进行可能的合作和开发教育材料提供了主要场所。生物运输教科书的缺乏阻碍了学术指导和学生对这一重要学科的学习。因此，有必要在本科和研究生阶段开设与生物运输教育相关的综合课程。本次生物运输教育研讨会将在2011年和2012年美国机械工程师学会（ASME）夏季生物工程会议（SBC）期间举行，其目的是向本科生和研究生广泛传播成功证明的跨学科教学方法。我们的假设是，这样的研讨会是一个有效的平台，在涉及生物运输复杂主题的不同机构之间有效地交流教学思想。为了解决这一假设，三个具体议程是：(1)会前议程：我们将开发一个来自世界顶尖大学的生物运输课程教学大纲库。在2011年和2012年ASME SBC期间，我们将邀请生物运输领域教授研究生和本科生课程的专家在研讨会上发言并进行小组讨论；(2)会议议程：我们将通过让专家分享他们的成功和失败，并允许主要由初级教师组成的观众提问来交流生物运输教学的想法。(3)会议后议程：我们将开发一个网站，用于发布生物运输课程大纲，书籍和期刊章节以及课程材料，如小测验和考试。关于生物运输教育的期刊出版物将提交给JBME或ABME或美国工程教育学会（ASEE）。智力优势：生物运输的研究和教育涉及细胞和组织中多域和多尺度过程之间耦合的实验测量和计算建模的集成。最近发展的实验技术，如射频、光学、磁共振、高强度聚焦超声，已经被我们的社区用来更好地了解生物运输过程，但许多这些技术和结果还没有整合到本科和研究生课程中。此外，生物运输过程的集成多物理场和多尺度计算模型的新发展已经在ASME等期刊和会议上提出，然而，这些进步在大学教育中缺乏。生物运输教育研讨会和网站存储库将专门设计用于将这些最先进的研究发现转化为课堂学习经验。更广泛的影响：该项目将改善生物运输领域研究生和本科生的教育。它将允许就这一具有挑战性的学科的教学交流思想，包括更统一的教学大纲、教科书和其他教学材料。此外，通过提高学生在课堂上对生物运输研究的认识，我们将改善本科生和研究生水平的学生研究人员的招聘和保留。生物运输研究的跨学科性质将为学生提供一个独特的机会，包括少数民族和女性，以获得实验设计，工程，生理学，成像和计算建模方面的经验。提高生物运输教育的广泛社会影响将促进热舒适和环境传热、生物保存（分子、细胞和组织储存/储存）、热疗法（消融、亚消融疗法、热疗和冷冻手术）、药物输送、氧合和体温调节等应用领域的进步。

1127262, BanerjeeThe long-term goal of this Biotransport Education workshop is to improve biotransport education. A survey conducted by Biotransport committee of ASME Bioengineering Division (BED) in year 2002 revealed that a) biotransport is being taught at a rapidly increasing number of institutions; b) in many cases it is being offered in the context of a basic course in transport fundamentals, rather than as a special or advanced application of transport; c) there is a long standing paucity of learning materials, especially those that treat bioheat transfer; and d) the ASME BED provides the primary venue for organizing biotransport faculty for possible collaborative efforts and for develop educational materials. The absence of a textbook on biotransport has hindered academic instruction and student learning of this important subject. Thus, there is a need for comprehensive courses related to Biotransport Education that can be offered at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The objective of this Biotransport Education workshop, to be conducting during the 2011 and 2012 ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference (SBC), is to broadly disseminate successfully proven methods for teaching this interdisciplinary topic to students at the undergraduate and graduate level. The hypothesis is that such workshop is an effective platform for efficient exchange of teaching ideas between diverse institutions involving complex topics of biotransport. To address the hypothesis the three specific agendas are to: (1) Pre-conference agenda: We will develop a repository of biotransport course syllabi from top universities around the world. We will invite experts in the field of biotransport who have taught graduate and undergraduate courses to speak followed by panel discussion at the workshop during 2011 and 2012 ASME SBC; (2) Conference agenda: We will exchange ideas for teaching biotransport by having experts share their own successes and failures and permitting questions by the audience consisting of primarily of junior faculty.(3) Post-conference agenda: We will develop a website for posting the repository of biotransport course syllabi, book and journal chapters, and course materials such as quizzes and exams. A journal publication on Biotransport education will be submitted to either the JBME or ABME, or the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE).Intellectual Merit: Biotransport research and education involves the integration of experimental measurements and computational modeling of the coupling between multi-domain and multi-scale processes in cells and tissue. Recently developed experimental techniques, such as radio-frequency, optical, magnetic resonance, high intensity focused ultrasound, have been utilized by our community to better understand biotransport processes, but many of these techniques and results have not been integrated into undergraduate and graduate curriculum. Additionally, novel development of integrated multi-physics and multiscale computational modeling of biotransport processes have been presented in journals and conferences such as ASME, however, these advancements are lacking in university education. The Biotransport Education workshop and website repository will specifically be designed to translate these state-of-the-art research discoveries into classroom learning experiences. Broader Impact: This project will permit improved education of graduate and undergraduate students in the field of biotransport. It will permit exchange of ideas for teaching this challenging subject matter, including a more unified syllabus, textbook, and other teaching materials. Additionally, by improving student perception of biotransport research in the classroom, we will improve recruitment and retention of undergraduate and graduate level student researchers. The interdisciplinary nature of biotransport research will provide a unique opportunity for students, including minorities and women, to gain experience in experimental design, engineering, physiology, imaging, and computational modeling. Broader societal impact of improved education in biotransport will improve advancement in application areas such as thermal comfort and environmental heat transfer, biopreservation (molecular, cellular, and tissue torage/banking), thermal therapies (ablation, sub-ablative therapies, hyperthermia, and cryosurgery), and drug delivery, oxygenation, and thermoregulation.