Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site for Computational Sensing and Medical Robotics (CS&MR)

这个由约翰·霍普金斯大学(JHU)主办的REU计算传感和医疗机器人网站(CS&amp；MR)将为来自全国各地机构的本科生和社区学院参与者提供一种令人兴奋和具有挑战性的研究体验，涉及一系列工程学科和计算机科学的项目。每个参与者都将与JHU机器人实验室的一个研究项目相匹配。这些研究项目旨在帮助外科医生通过使用现代计算、传感和机器人工具，使手术更有效，更不容易出错。一些项目还将帮助残疾人恢复一些失去的功能，例如使用假肢等设备。这些学生将与由一名教授、研究生、其他本科生以及通常是高中生和/或教师组成的团队密切合作。本科生还将接受技术写作、口头演示和研究伦理方面的培训。他们将参观JHU/H医院的实验室、应用物理实验室以及当地的机器人和生物技术公司，并有机会在JHU/H微创外科培训中进行腹腔镜手术。作为所有这些活动的结果，这笔赠款将帮助为美国经济中一个重要部门提供医疗保健和工程方面的劳动力做好准备。该计划将增加专家的数量，他们可以使复杂的手术更安全，更便宜，更容易在全国范围内获得。这个REU计划的智力优势来自于它的多学科性质，因为它为每个参与者提供了在10周的夏季体验中，在不同领域进行研究的能力，并发展强大的团队合作技能。每位教师导师提供一个项目描述，该项目描述可以是专门为该项目创建的，也可以是为执行正在进行的工作的某一方面而设计的。由于计算传感和机器人实验室(LCSR)与约翰·霍普金斯医疗机构和马龙医疗工程中心有着密切的联系，参与者可以体验旨在帮助医疗诊断、干预和假肢的尖端研究，并为可能成为“医学未来”的技术做出贡献。项目团队计划利用这一经验，在CS&Amp；MR中提供这种REU，目的是扩大研究领域，包括更多生物灵感和生物针对性的计算传感、成像和机器人系统。通过导师培训、形成性和终结性评估(由JHU教育和外展中心)以及对学生的纵向跟踪(由电气和计算机工程系的行政人员)来确保项目的质量。REU计划将产生更广泛的影响，因为它通过开发新的传感、成像和医疗机器人系统以及旨在增强临床医生引入、计划和执行医疗程序的能力的技术，满足了改善医疗保健提供的关键国家需求。通过从LSAMP、McNair、SWE、SHPE和其他类似项目、少数族裔服务机构和社区学院招募人才并与之合作，该项目将帮助培养一批合格的、多样化的个人，他们将为STEM领域的劳动力做出贡献，特别是在技术增强型生物医学研究、临床干预以及基础生物和生命科学中遇到的多学科和跨学科学科。参与者将在沟通和研究伦理方面接受良好的培训，这对当今生物技术和生物科学工作以及市场的成功至关重要。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This REU Site for Computational Sensing and Medical Robotics (CS&MR) hosted by Johns Hopkins University (JHU) will provide a diverse cohort of undergraduate and community college participants from institutions nationwide an exciting and challenging research experience involving projects in a range of engineering disciplines and computer science. Each participant will be matched with a research project in one of JHU's robotics labs. These research projects are aimed at helping surgical doctors to make operations more effective and less error prone by using modern computation, sensing and robotics tools. Some of the projects will also help people with disabilities regain some of the lost functions, by using, for example, devices such as artificial limbs. The students will work closely with teams composed of a professor, graduate student, other undergraduate students and, often, high school students and/or teachers. The undergraduates will also get training in technical writing, oral presentation, and research ethics. They will tour labs at JHU Hospital (JHU/H), the Applied Physics Laboratory, and local robotics and biotech companies, and get the opportunity to perform laparoscopic procedures at the JHU/H Minimally Invasive Surgical Training. As a result of all these activities, this grant will help prepare a workforce for an important sector of the US economy at the interface of healthcare delivery and engineering. The program will increase the number of experts who can make complex surgery safer, less expensive and more available nationally.The intellectual merits of this REU program stem from its multidisciplinary nature, as it offers each participant during a ten week summer experience, the ability to conduct research in a variety of fields and develop strong teamwork collaboration skills. Each faculty mentor provides a project description that may be created specifically for the program or designed to carry out a facet of on-going work. Because the Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics (LCSR) has close ties with the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions and the Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare, participants can experience the cutting-edge research that is designed to aid medical diagnosis, interventions, and prosthesis, and contribute to technologies that are likely to become a part of the "future of medicine." The project team plans to leverage this experience and offer this REU in CS&MR with an aim of broadening the areas of research to include more biological inspired and biologically targeted computational sensing, imaging, and robotics systems. Quality of the program is assured through mentor training, formative and summative assessments (by JHU Center for Education and Outreach), and longitudinal tracking of students (by administrative staff in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering). The broader impact of this REU program will result from the fact that it addresses a vital national need to improve the delivery of healthcare by developing new sensing, imaging, and medical robotics systems as well as techniques designed to enhance the ability of clinicians to introduce, plan, and execute medical procedures. By recruiting from and partnering with LSAMP, McNair, SWE, SHPE and other similar programs, minority-serving institutions and community colleges, this program will help develop a pipeline of qualified, diverse individuals who will contribute to the workforce in the area of STEM, particularly in the multi- and interdisciplinary subjects encountered in technology enhanced biomedical research, clinical interventions, and basic biological and life sciences. The participants will be well trained in communications and research ethics, which are essential for success in today's biotechnology and bioscience work and the marketplace.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.