AEMB 2012 Broader Impacts Educational Sessions at BMES, October 24-27, 2012, Atlanta, GA

AEMB 2012 更广泛的影响教育会议，BMES，2012 年 10 月 24-27 日，佐治亚州亚特兰大

• 批准号: 1261495
• 负责人: Teresa Murray
• 金额: $ 1.9万
• 依托单位: Louisiana Tech University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-10-01 至 2013-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1261495&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: AEMB; 2012; Broader; Impacts; Educational

1261495MurrayThe number of bioengineering degree programs in the United States has skyrocketed over the past decade. There are more than 70 ABET accredited undergraduate Biomedical Engineering/Bioengineering programs, and this is expected to exceed 100 within the next few years. Likewise, the range of new devices and technologies in the healthcare field has increased dramatically. While the products and services that Biomedical Engineers design and implement are intended to improve health and well-being, they can also create a range of social and ethical dilemmas, especially for leading-edge technologies. As an example, potential difficulties stem from implantable or wearable sensors that can store and transmit personal health information which emergency care providers could electronically access. Yet, this same information might also be accessed by insurance companies or identity thieves. A device that could save people's lives could also be the gateway to harm them. Additionally, public policy has an effect on the funding for innovation and on the laws that regulate it. Thus, students would benefit from exposure to the process of the public policy debate.Biomedical Engineering (BME) students today are only a few years away from becoming a part of the process driving the development of new biomedical technologies. It is imperative that this generation of engineers be well-equipped to identify potential social and ethical issues that may arise from their inventions. It is equally important that they learn how public policy impacts their work and how to effectively engage with policy makers and the general public to ensure that conditions for innovation are optimized for the benefit of all. Most BME academic programs include ethics and social impact of medical devices only as integrated components in a selected course or courses, and few programs cover public policy. In 2005, AEMB determined to fill in the gaps by hosting an intensive educational ethics session for students during the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting, a leading national conference. Today, AEMB sponsors three sessions at the BMES Annual Meeting, including ethics, public policy and societal impacts. Funding from this grant will be used to (1) provide matching travel grants to students to attend the conference and these three sessions, and (2) to produce professional video recordings of each session for free use by schools and student groups. Students receiving these grants will participate in all three sessions. After they return home, they will facilitate training sessions at their schools using videos and other materials from these sessions. Other student leaders and faculty that attend these sessions will be asked to host sessions at their campuses, as well. Furthermore, AEMB will contact each US BME program chair to request that they use the session materials. This should promote wide use of the content.Intellectual MeritThis set of sessions is a new model for broadening the knowledge and skills of these important topics and for improving student involvement in their profession. Other societies will hopefully recognize the merits of this approach and use it as a template for exposing undergraduate and graduate students in other disciplines to these same problems. Furthermore, this method of educating students via a combination of presentations and discussions is known to be an effective educational approach. The students and faculty participants will be encouraged to use this approach when they run their own sessions and thus promote the increased use of active learning methods in BME education.Broader ImpactsIt is expected that student participants will routinely consider ethics, public policy, and societal impact issues during the process of device and technology design and implementation; this will further improve technologies available to society. As they bring this knowledge to their communities they will also increase awareness in the wider society of the important consequences of both good and poor engineering design and practice. AEMB leadership is encouraging all faculty advisors to bring students from underrepresented groups to the conference and our session by applying for FASEB MARC Mentor/Student travel grants. Also, because many local AEMB student leaders are women, this travel grant program will ensure that women are well-represented. Additionally, the professionally recorded videos of each session and other materials will be available free of charge so that any school or student organization can present their content to students. Potentially, this can reach students in every BME program in the country.

1261495--美国生物工程学位课程的数量在过去十年里猛增。目前有70多个获得AET认证的本科生生物医学工程/生物工程专业，预计在未来几年内将超过100个。同样，医疗保健领域的新设备和新技术的范围也大幅增加。虽然生物医学工程师设计和实施的产品和服务旨在改善健康和福祉，但它们也可能造成一系列社会和伦理困境，特别是对尖端技术来说。例如，潜在的困难来自可植入或可穿戴的传感器，这些传感器可以存储和传输紧急护理人员可以电子访问的个人健康信息。然而，同样的信息也可能被保险公司或身份窃贼获取。一种可以拯救人们生命的设备也可能是伤害他们的门户。此外，公共政策对创新资金和监管创新的法律也有影响。因此，学生将受益于公共政策辩论的过程。今天的生物医学工程(BME)学生距离成为推动新生物医学技术发展的过程的一部分只有几年的时间了。当务之急是，这一代工程师必须装备精良，能够识别他们的发明可能引发的潜在社会和伦理问题。同样重要的是，他们要了解公共政策如何影响他们的工作，以及如何有效地与政策制定者和公众接触，以确保为所有人的利益优化创新条件。大多数BME学术课程只将医疗器械的伦理和社会影响作为选定课程的综合组成部分，很少有课程涵盖公共政策。2005年，AEMB决定在生物医学工程学会(BMES)年会期间为学生举办一次密集的教育伦理会议，以填补这一空白。生物医学工程学会是一项领先的全国性会议。今天，海洋和海洋生态系统理事会在其年会上主办了三场会议，包括伦理、公共政策和社会影响。这笔补助金将用于(1)为参加会议和这三个会议的学生提供匹配的旅费津贴，以及(2)制作每个会议的专业录像带，供学校和学生团体免费使用。获得这些助学金的学生将参加所有三个课程。回国后，他们将使用培训课程的视频和其他材料在学校促进培训课程。参加这些会议的其他学生领袖和教职员工也将被要求在他们的校园里主持会议。此外，AEMB将联系每一位美国BME项目主席，要求他们使用课程材料。这应该会促进内容的广泛应用。智力价值这套课程是拓宽这些重要主题的知识和技能以及提高学生对其专业的参与度的新模式。其他社会将有望认识到这种方法的优点，并将其用作让其他学科的本科生和研究生接触这些相同问题的模板。此外，这种通过演讲和讨论相结合的方法来教育学生被认为是一种有效的教育方法。将鼓励学生和教职员工在举办自己的课程时使用这种方法，从而促进在BME教育中更多地使用主动学习方法。广泛影响预计学生参与者在设计和实施设备和技术的过程中将定期考虑伦理、公共政策和社会影响问题；这将进一步改善社会可用的技术。随着他们将这些知识带到他们的社区，他们还将在更广泛的社会中提高对好的和差的工程设计和实践的重要后果的认识。AEMB领导层鼓励所有教师顾问通过申请FASEB MARC导师/学生旅行补助金，将代表人数不足的群体的学生带到会议和我们的会议上。此外，由于许多当地的AEMB学生领袖都是女性，这项旅行补助计划将确保女性得到很好的代表。此外，每节课的专业录制视频和其他材料将免费提供，以便任何学校或学生组织都可以向学生展示其内容。潜在地，这项服务可以接触到全国每一个BME项目的学生。