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（SB 3C 2016）。SBC会议通常被认为是生物力学的首次年度会议。会议的主要目的是促进生物工程广泛领域的最先进研究、合作和国际科学话语，重点关注生物力学、生物技术、生物运输、生物材料、组织工程、康复和设计。SB 3C 2015的组织委员会来自学术界和业界的个人，他们在举办以前的夏季会议方面具有丰富的经验。自90年代初以来，该会议及其前身会议传统上提供了高质量的多学科生物医学工程活动，并为许多代学者和研究人员的培训做出了贡献。值得注意的是，夏季会议系列，自成立以来，优先考虑学生融入会议，以支持他们的专业发展和未来的连接到生物力学，生物运输和生物工程研究社区;多年来，学生已超过50%的与会者和主持人。今年会议的主题是“生物力学对医疗保健的影响”。除了这次会议将对主流生物工程界产生直接影响外，它还发挥了重要的交叉作用，因为与会者来自生物力学界以外的广泛学科。 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辅导/提高讲习班;并赞助著名的学生论文比赛，支付36名博士的会议出席费用。决赛选手学生论文比赛的决赛选手和获奖者可以将这些信息添加到他们的简历中，比赛为学生提供了一个作为研究人员发展的机会，是一个重要的职业发展，提高了最有才华的学生的保留率，并为所有学生与会者提供了榜样。通过技术会议记录和会议网站，会议上介绍的信息将提供给多个社会和广大公众。此外，会议历来有，预计将继续有超过50%的与会者是学生和博士后研究员和超过25%的女性与会者。第一次，组织委员会扩大到包括一个多样性主席。通过旅行奖学金和讲习班，PI计划将这次会议定为女性和代表人数不足的少数民族与会者的“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.