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

1127262，Banerjee这个生物运输教育研讨会的长期目标是改善生物运输教育。 2002年ASME生物工程部生物运输委员会进行的一项调查显示，a）生物运输在越来越多的机构中教授; 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）长期以来缺乏学习材料，特别是那些处理生物热传递的材料; d）ASME BED为组织生物运输教师进行可能的合作努力和开发教育材料提供了主要场所。由于缺乏生物转运的教科书，阻碍了这一重要学科的学术教学和学生学习。因此，有必要在本科和研究生阶段提供与生物运输教育相关的综合课程。在2011年和2012年ASME夏季生物工程会议（SBC）期间举办的生物运输教育研讨会的目的是广泛传播成功证明的方法，用于向本科生和研究生水平的学生教授这一跨学科主题。假设是，这样的研讨会是一个有效的平台，涉及生物运输的复杂主题的不同机构之间的教学思想的有效交流。为了解决这一假设，三个具体的议程是：（1）会前议程：我们将开发一个来自世界各地的顶尖大学的生物运输课程大纲库。我们将邀请生物运输领域的专家谁教研究生和本科生课程发言，然后在2011年和2012年ASME SBC期间的研讨会上进行小组讨论;（2）会议议程：我们将通过让专家分享自己的成功和失败，并允许由初级教师为主的观众组成的问题，交流生物运输教学的想法。(3)会后议程：我们将开发一个网站，用于发布生物运输课程教学大纲，书籍和期刊章节以及课程材料（如测验和考试）的存储库。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：生物运输研究和教育涉及细胞和组织中多领域和多尺度过程之间耦合的实验测量和计算建模的整合。最近开发的实验技术，如射频，光学，磁共振，高强度聚焦超声，已被我们的社会，以更好地了解生物转运过程，但许多这些技术和结果还没有被整合到本科和研究生课程。此外，生物运输过程的集成多物理场和多尺度计算建模的新发展已经在ASME等期刊和会议上提出，然而，这些进展在大学教育中缺乏。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体验。更广泛的影响：该项目将允许改善生物运输领域的研究生和本科生的教育。它将允许交流教学这一具有挑战性的主题的想法，包括更统一的教学大纲，教科书和其他教材。此外，通过提高学生在课堂上的生物运输研究的看法，我们将提高本科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，包括少数民族和妇女，以获得实验设计，工程，生理学，成像和计算建模的经验。改善生物运输教育的更广泛的社会影响将改善应用领域的进步，如热舒适性和环境热传递，生物保存（分子，细胞和组织储存/银行），热治疗（消融，亚消融治疗，高热和冷冻手术），以及药物输送，氧合和温度调节。

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.