2019 Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting

生物医学工程学会（BMES）年会将于2019年10月16日至19日在宾夕法尼亚州费城举行，预计将有超过4，500人参加。会议将以“连接社区：本地和全球生物工程”为主题，展示19个项目轨道。会议的目标是鼓励创新学习，促进生物医学工程界代表性不足的人群的包容性，以及支持学术界和工业界研究的机会。NSF基金将支持网络和小团体的互动，并将促进教育机会和途径的生物医学工程成功的知识增加。这笔赠款提供资金的几个有竞争力的旅行补助金计划，以及针对代表性不足的群体和那些可能无法参加会议的专业发展活动。有竞争力的旅行补助金计划包括：12名学生研究奖，40名研究生，博士后研究员，早期职业教师和来自BME代表性不足的人群的专业人士的职业发展奖，包括初级教师;和20名对生物医学工程感兴趣的NSBE成员。此外，还需要为可能没有STEM课程的学校的学生提供高中博览会项目的资金。最后，来自NSF的资金将用于支持15名高中生参加这项活动。在为期四天的会议中，2019年会议将包括19个项目轨道，约950个口头报告和2，000多个海报演示。该奖项反映了NSF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。

The Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting will be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from October 16-19, 2019, and anticipating over 4,500 participants. The meeting will feature 19 Program Tracks with the theme "Connecting Communities: Bioengineering Locally and Globally". The goal of the meeting is to encourage innovative learning that promotes inclusion from underrepresented populations within the biomedical engineering community, and opportunities that support research in both academia and industry. NSF funds will support networking and small group interactions and will promote increased knowledge of educational opportunities and pathways to success in biomedical engineering.This grant provides funding for several competitive travel grant programs as well as professional development activities targeted at underrepresented groups and those that may not otherwise be able to participate in the conference. The competitive travel grant programs include: 12 students research awards, 40 career development awards for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, early career faculty and professionals from underrepresented populations in BME, including junior faculty; and 20 NSBE members interested in biomedical engineering. Additionally, funding is required for a High School Expo program for students from schools that might not have a STEM curriculum. Finally, funding from NSF will be used to support 15 high school students with chaperones in this activity. Over four days, the 2019 meeting will feature 19 Program Tracks with approximately 950 oral presentations and more than 2,000 poster presentations.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.