2012 Undergraduate Design Project Competition in Rehabilitation and Assistive Devices

PI：Maletsky，LorinProposal编号：1219600美国机械工程师协会生物工程部(BED)主办一年一度的夏季生物工程会议。2012年SBC将于2012年6月20日至23日在波多黎各法哈多的征服者度假村举行，将是本次会议的第14期。NSF的预算申请是为了支持2012年康复和辅助设备本科生设计项目大赛和一个研讨会，帮助研究人员将他们的康复想法转化为市场。比赛的主要目的是让更多的学生接触到这一领域的康复需求和支持项目，并帮助培养这方面的未来研究人员和工程师。资金还将支持将在会议上介绍的讲习班，该讲习班将解释如何将从学生项目发展而来的康复概念转化为可行的市场产品。所有技术介绍都将是两页的扩展摘要，并以光盘格式汇编，分发给所有注册者。这次会议的主要目的是促进生物工程广泛领域最先进的研究、合作和科学论述，重点是尖端生物力学，包括从分子到组织和生物体水平的方法。本次会议强调并鼓励学生参与，以促进这些未来生物工程领导者的教育和职业抱负。智力优势：设计项目使用一系列标准进行严格审查，项目需要得到充分发展，才能进入前六名决赛。对于大会的决赛陈述，每个团队将向观众展示他们的设计，并必须能够回答问题。参加大会的入围团队成员还将能够参加一场极高质量的科学和智力激发的跨学科会议。这是生物工程的首次会议，重点是生物力学工程。其中一个研讨会，将辅助设备推向市场，将突出康复项目到适销对路的产品的转化。还将介绍其他五个具有重大科学和教育主题的生物工程研讨会：血流动力学的4D相位对比磁共振成像、非侵入性成像的分级尺度的固体力学、生物工程的终身教职提示、细胞与组织工程教学和生物传输教育。我们还将面临两个额外的挑战：预测膝关节负荷的重大挑战和计算流体动力学挑战。挑战赛突出了学生在工程设计和建模方面的成就，并通过同时鼓励竞争和合作来迅速推进这一领域。Lissner和Mow奖章以及冯·杨研究员奖的获得者将发表科学报告。更广泛的影响：康复设计大赛将把来自全国各地的学生带到一个会议上，否则他们可能没有机会参加国际研究会议。除了这次会议将对主流生物工程界产生直接影响外，它还起到了重要的交叉促进作用。我们将有生物工程师、其他学科的工程师、细胞和分子生物学家、生物化学家、生物物理学家和其他科学家参加会议。以这种方式，这次会议将产生比仅仅由生物力学社区参加的更广泛的影响。最重要的是，我们预计超过50%的与会者将是学生和博士后研究员。这将对当前和未来产生广泛的影响，因为这些学生将从参加会议和通过全体演讲者提供的材料、研讨会和挑战中受益。通过载有技术会议记录和会议网址的光盘，会议上介绍的信息将向多个协会和广大公众提供。

PI: Maletsky, LorinProposal Number: 1219600 The Bioengineering Division (BED) of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers hosts the annual Summer Bioengineering Conference (SBC). The 2012 SBC, to be held June 20-23, 2012 at the el Conquistador Resort in Fajardo, Puerto Rico, will be the 14th installment of this conference. The budget request to NSF is to provide support for the 2012 Undergraduate Design Project Competition in Rehabilitation and Assistive Devices and a workshop to help researchers translate their rehabilitation ideas to market. The primary objectives of the competition are to expose more students to rehabilitation needs and support projects in this area as well as to help develop future researchers and engineers in this. Funding will also support a workshop to be presented at the meeting which will explain how to convert concepts in rehabilitation developed from student projects into viable market products. All technical presentations will be two-page extended abstracts and compiled in a CD format, distributed to all registrants. The primary purpose of this conference is to promote state-of-the-art research, collaboration, and scientific discourse in the broad field of bioengineering with a focus on cutting edge biomechanics encompassing molecular to tissue and organism-level approaches. This conference highlights and encourages student participation to advance the education and career aspirations of these future leaders of bioengineering. Intellectual Merit: The design projects are rigorously reviewed using a series of criteria and projects need to be sufficiently developed to be considered in one of the top six finalists. For the finalist presentations at the conference, each team will present their design to the audience and must be able to answer questions. The finalist team members who attend the conference will also be able to participate in an extremely high quality scientific and intellectually stimulating interdisciplinary meeting. It is the premiere meeting for bioengineering with a focus on biomechanical engineering. One of the workshops, Bringing Assistive Devices to Market, will highlight the translation of rehabilitation projects to marketable products. Five other workshops with significant scientific and educational topics in bioengineering will also be presented: 4D Phase Contrast MRI for Hemodynamics, Solid Mechanics over Hierarchical Scales by Noninvasive Imaging, Tips for Tenure in Bioengineering, Teaching Cell & Tissue Engineering, and Biotransport Education. We will also have two additional Challenges: the Grand Challenge in Predicting Knee Loads and Computational Fluid Dynamics Challenge. Challenge sessions highlight student achievements in engineering design and modeling and rapidly advance the field through simultaneously encouraging competition and collaboration. The winners of the Lissner and Mow Medals and the Fung Young Investigator Award will make scientific presentations. Broader Impact: The rehabilitation design competition will bring students from across the country to a meeting who might otherwise not have an opportunity to attend an international research conference. In addition to the direct impact this conference will have on the mainstream bioengineering community, it serves an important cross-fertilization role. We will have in attendance 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 biomechanics community. Most importantly, we expect that more than 50% of the attendees will be students and postdoctoral fellows. 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, workshops, and challenges. 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.