Student Support for the 2019 Summer Biomechanics, Biotransport and Bioengineering Conference (SB3C2019); Seven Springs, Pennsylvania; June 25-28, 2019

该奖项将支持2019年夏季生物力学、生物运输和生物工程会议（SB3C2019），该会议将于2019年6月25日至28日在宾夕法尼亚州七泉举行。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。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。SB3C2019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，学生占与会者和演讲者的50%以上。今年会议的主题是“创建多尺度连接：整合生物力学、生物工程和生物运输的基石”。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界以外的广泛学科。该项目的目的是为妇女和代表性不足的少数民族提供旅行研究金；支持多元化导师-学员活动；赞助著名的学生论文比赛，为前40名的理学学士和理学硕士作品支付会议注册费。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。第四次，组织委员会已经扩大到包括一个多元化主席。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。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award will support the 2019 Summer Biomechanics, Biotransport and Bioengineering Conference (SB3C2019) being held in Seven Springs, PA, on June 25-28, 2019. The SB3C meetings, and their predecessor 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 SB3C2019 is drawn from individuals in academia and 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. The theme of this year's meeting is "Creating MultiScale Connections: The Keystone of Integrative Biomechanics, Bioengineering, and Biotransport". 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 are to sponsor travel fellowships for females and under-represented minorities; to support a diversity mentor-mentee event; and, to sponsor the prestigious Student Paper Competition by covering the meeting registration costs of the top 40 BS and MS competition submissions. 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 fourth 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.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.