2016 Summer Biomechanics, Biotransport and Bioengineering Conference (SB3C2016); National Harbor, Maryland; June 29 - July 2, 2016

拟议的活动将支持2016年夏季生物力学、生物运输和生物工程会议(SB3C2016)。SBC会议通常被认为是生物力学的首要年度会议。会议的主要目的是促进生物工程广泛领域最先进的研究、合作和国际科学论述，重点是生物力学、生物技术、生物运输、生物材料、组织工程、康复和设计。SB3C2015的组委会由学术界和业界人士组成，他们在举办前几届夏季会议方面拥有丰富的经验。自90年代初以来，会议及其前身会议传统上提供了一次高质量的、多学科的生物医学工程活动，并为培训多代学者和研究人员做出了贡献。值得注意的是，夏季会议系列从一开始就把学生纳入会议的优先事项，以支持他们的专业发展和未来与生物力学、生物运输和生物工程研究社区的联系；多年来，学生占与会者和演讲者的50%以上。今年会议的主题是“生物力学对医疗的影响”。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流作用，因为与会者来自生物力学社区以外的非常广泛的学科。该项目的目的是为女性和代表性不足的少数群体赞助旅行奖学金和指导/进步研讨会；并通过支付36名博士决赛选手的会议费用来赞助著名的学生论文比赛。学生论文竞赛的最终入围者和获胜者可以将这些信息添加到他们的简历中，该竞赛为学生提供了一个发展为研究人员的机会，并对职业生涯起到了重大推动作用，增强了对最有才华的学生的留住，并为所有学生参与者提供了榜样。通过技术程序和会议网站，会议上介绍的信息将向多个协会和广大公众提供。此外，大会历来有超过50%的与会者是学生和博士后研究员，女性与会者超过25%，预计将继续如此。组织委员会第一次扩大到包括一名多样性主席。通过旅行奖学金和研讨会，国际和平协会计划将这次会议设立为女性和代表人数不足的少数族裔与会者的“去”会议。

The proposed activity will support the 2016 Summer Biomechanics, Biotransport and Bioengineering Conference (SB3C2016). The SBC meetings are generally considered the premiere annual meetings for biomechanics. The primary purpose of the meeting is to promote state-of-the-art research, collaboration, and international scientific discourse in the broad field of bioengineering with focus on biomechanics, biotechnology, biotransport, biomaterials, tissue engineering, rehabilitation and design. The organizing committee for SB3C2015 is drawn from individuals in academia and the industry with significant experience in running the previous summer meetings. The meeting and its precursor meetings have traditionally provided a high-quality, multidisciplinary biomedical engineering event since early 90's and contributed to training of many generations of academics and researchers. Notably, the summer meetings series has, since its inception, prioritized the integration of students into the meeting to support their professional development and future connection to the biomechanics, biotransport and bioengineering research community; for many years, students have made up more than 50% of attendees and presenters. The theme of this year's meeting is "Impact of Biomechanics on Healthcare". In addition to the direct impact this conference will have on the mainstream bioengineering community, it serves an important cross-fertilization role, since attendees are drawn from a very broad range of disciplines beyond the biomechanics community. The aims of the project is to sponsor travel fellowships and a mentoring/advancement workshop for females and under-represented minorities; and, to sponsor the prestigious Student Paper Competition by covering the meeting attendance costs of the 36 Ph.D. finalists. Finalists and winners in the student paper competition can add this information to their resumes, and the competition provides an opportunity for students to develop as researchers and is a significant career boost, enhancing retention of the most talented students and providing role models for all student attendees. Through the technical proceedings and conference web site, information presented at the meeting will be available to multiple societies and to the public at large. Further, the conference has historically had, and is expected to continue to have more than 50% of the attendees being students and postdoctoral fellows and more than 25% female attendees. For the first time, the organization committee has been extended to include a Diversity Chair. Though the travel fellowships and workshops, the PI plans to establish this meeting as the "go to" conference for female and under-represented minority attendees.