Conference Grant for MINDS Workshop

MINDS 研讨会会议补助金

• 批准号: 1743983
• 负责人: Teresa Murray
• 金额: $ 1.62万
• 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: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-07-15 至 2019-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1743983&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Grant; MINDS; Workshop

This award will fund the 2017 MINDS (Mentoring for Innovative Design Solutions) Workshop organized by Alpha Eta Mu Beta, the National Biomedical Engineering Honors Society. The workshop will be held October 11-14 in Phoenix, AZ, in parallel with the BMES 2017 Annual Meeting. This will allow the students selected for the MINDS Scholar Program to also participate in the BMES Annual Meeting. The MINDS Scholar Program is an innovative approach that provides students with the opportunity to collaborate and network with peers and mentors across the country for a 5-month period, while building necessary engineering design skills, including three key considerations that are not usually stressed in coursework projects. The three key considerations are: (1) market considerations for commercialization (unmet need, size of market reimbursement potential, etc.), (2) regulatory strategy, and (3) evaluating prospects for intellectual property protection. The program begins with an initial workshop where students meet their team members, drawn from other universities across the US, and mentors. The team then selects a central design idea that will be developed over the subsequent 5 months. Students will be selected through a competitive process, with junior undergraduates preferred. Students will then work with their teams and mentors to develop a design solution that takes into account issues such as market evaluation, intellectual property issues, and regulation. Subject matter experts will provide support to the teams during this 5 month design period. Teams will be encouraged to submit their designs to various design contests, investment opportunities, and grant programs. This program will develop a core group of engineers who will better understand the importance of considering human needs before attempting to design devices, and who will be more likely to engage in a variety of activities that improve the human condition. Moreover, the participants will learn how to assess human needs and will effectively use the key design considerations that are of paramount importance for successful translation of ideas to the marketplace so that they can truly help people. Additionally, the collaborative and long-distance communication skills that they develop in this project will better equip them to work in an environment that is increasingly dependent on communication between distant facilities and customers. The majority of design courses in the US, particularly in biomedical engineering programs, do not have sufficient time to provide students with a strong experience in the non-technical aspects that are key to design success: market potential, intellectual property, and regulation. This program will provide seven teams of three students, selected through a competitive process from across the US, with key experience related to real world design processes for medical systems. It will also provide students with significant experience in working on a geographically separated team and with peers from varied backgrounds, both of which are strongly valued by industry.

该奖项将资助由国家生物医学工程荣誉协会Alpha Eta Mu Beta组织的2017年MINDS（创新设计解决方案指导）研讨会。 该研讨会将于10月11日至14日在亚利桑那州凤凰城举行，与BMES 2017年会同时举行。 这将使学生选择的MINDS学者计划也参加BMES年会。 MINDS奖学金计划是一种创新的方法，为学生提供了与全国各地的同行和导师合作和交流的机会，为期5个月，同时培养必要的工程设计技能，包括课程项目中通常不强调的三个关键因素。三个关键考虑因素是：（1）商业化的市场考虑因素（未满足的需求、市场补偿潜力的大小等），(2)（3）评估知识产权保护的前景。 该计划从最初的研讨会开始，学生们将与来自美国其他大学的团队成员和导师见面。 然后，团队选择一个中心设计理念，并在随后的5个月内进行开发。 学生将通过竞争过程中选择，与低年级本科生优先。 然后，学生将与他们的团队和导师合作，开发一个设计解决方案，考虑到市场评估，知识产权问题和监管等问题。 主题专家将在这5个月的设计期间为团队提供支持。 将鼓励团队将他们的设计提交给各种设计竞赛，投资机会和赠款计划。 该计划将培养一批核心工程师，他们将更好地理解在尝试设计设备之前考虑人类需求的重要性，并且更有可能从事各种改善人类状况的活动。 此外，参与者将学习如何评估人类需求，并将有效地使用关键的设计考虑因素，这些因素对于将想法成功转化为市场至关重要，以便他们能够真正帮助人们。此外，他们在这个项目中培养的协作和远程沟通技能将使他们能够更好地在越来越依赖远程设施和客户之间沟通的环境中工作。 美国的大多数设计课程，特别是生物医学工程课程，没有足够的时间为学生提供非技术方面的丰富经验，这些方面是设计成功的关键：市场潜力，知识产权和监管。 该计划将提供七个团队的三名学生，通过竞争过程从美国各地选择，与医疗系统的真实的世界设计过程相关的关键经验。 它还将为学生提供在地理上分离的团队工作的重要经验，并与来自不同背景的同行，这两者都受到行业的高度重视。