2018 World Congress of Biomechanics: Undergraduate Student Support from the Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering and Biotransport (SB3C) Foundation

该奖项将支持学生在2018年夏季生物力学、生物运输和生物工程会议（SB3C2018）上的活动，该会议与2018年7月6日至11日在爱尔兰都柏林举行的2018年世界生物力学大会（WCB2018）一起举行。SB3C会议及其前身SBC会议通常被认为是生物力学的首要年度会议。四年一度的世界生物力学大会是世界上最大的生物力学会议。会议的主要目的是促进生物工程广泛领域的最新研究，合作和国际科学讨论，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。WCB18和SB3C2018的组织委员会由学术界和工业界的个人组成，他们在以往的夏季会议中具有丰富的经验。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，并为培训许多代学者和研究人员做出了贡献。值得注意的是，夏季会议系列自成立以来，优先考虑将学生融入会议，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界的联系。多年来，学生在SB3C会议的与会者和演讲者中占50%以上。除了对主流生物工程界的直接影响外，这次会议还发挥了重要的交叉作用，因为与会者来自生物力学以外的广泛学科。该项目的目标是为妇女和代表性不足的少数民族提供20个旅行研究金；支持多元化指导活动，将弱势群体的学生与学术导师联系起来；赞助著名的学生论文比赛，为参加理学学士和理学硕士比赛的前20名参赛作品支付会议注册费。学生旅行奖学金将针对刚刚完成大三的学生，这将使他们能够建立网络并探索研究生院的选择。这些学生通常在他们的本科研究中没有足够的进展，无法获得机构的会议旅行支持。学生论文竞赛的入围者和获胜者可以将这些信息添加到他们的简历中，竞赛为学生提供了一个发展为研究人员的机会，是一个重要的职业促进，增强了对最有才华的学生的保留，并为所有学生参与者提供了榜样。通过技术论文集和会议网站，会议上介绍的信息将向多个学会和广大公众提供。此外，该会议历来有超过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。这是组织委员会第二次扩大，增加了一位多元化主席。通过旅游奖学金和相关的讲习班，PI计划将这次会议打造成女性和代表性不足的少数族裔与会者的“必去”会议。

This award will support student activities at the 2018 Summer Biomechanics, Biotransport and Bioengineering Conference (SB3C2018) being held in conjunction with the 2018 World Congress of Biomechanics (WCB2018) in Dublin, Ireland, on July 6-11, 2018. The SB3C meetings, and their predecessor SBC meetings, are generally considered the premiere annual meetings for biomechanics. The quadrennial World Congress of Biomechanics is the world's largest conference on 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 WCB18 and SB3C2018 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 the early 90's and contributed to training 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 at SB3C meetings. 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 biomechanics . The aims of the project are to sponsor 20 travel fellowships for females and under-represented minorities; to support a Diversity Mentorship event to connect students from underrepresented groups with academic mentors; and to sponsor the prestigious Student Paper Competition by covering the meeting registration costs of the top 20 submissions to each of the BS and MS competitions. Student travel fellowships will be targeted at students who have just completed their junior year, which will allow them to network and explore graduate school options. These students typically have not advanced enough in their undergraduate research to obtain institutional support for conference travel. 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 percent of the attendees being students and postdoctoral fellows and more than 25 percent female attendees. For the second time, the organization committee has been extended to include a Diversity Chair. Through the travel fellowships and associated workshops, the PI plans to establish this meeting as the "go to" conference for female and under-represented minority attendees.