REU Site: Imaging and Mechanics-based Projects on Accidental Cases of Trauma (IMPACT)

这个面向本科生的研究经验(REU)网站：维克森林大学医学院(WFSM)基于影像和力学的创伤意外案例项目(IMPACT)提供多学科的生物医学工程机会，旨在提高对创伤和损伤的基本理解。与他们建立多样化和强大的STEM劳动力培训计划的愿景一致，目标强调培训、教育、指导和激励未被充分代表的学生从事生物医学研究和职业生涯。学生，包括那些来自代表性不足的群体的学生，将获得对损伤研究的基本了解，培养批判性思维技能，以成长为独立研究人员，并被鼓励在生物医学研究领域寻求教育和职业机会。REU的研究将通过开发损伤预测模型；提高军事、汽车、体育和航天安全；以及改进诊断和治疗方法来预防、减轻和治疗损伤及相关后遗症，从而造福社会。研究成果将通过视频快照、出版物、会议摘要、演示文稿、专利和由REU学生撰写的报告来传播，目的是向参加夏季研讨会、访问网站或与在全国会议上发言的REU学生及其本科生进行交流的数百名学生促进STEM研究和职业生涯。为期十周的夏季REU项目的目标是：(1)为学生提供生物医学工程研究培训，并向他们传授医学成像和生物力学技术，他们将应用这些技术来研究与意外创伤有关的力学、生理、解剖学和其他基本因素；(2)通过实践培训和侧重于生物医学研究和专业发展主题的研讨会，就研究过程、研究道德、通过出版和展示传播研究成果以及研究的社会影响对学生进行教育；(3)培养REU参与者、研究生和教师导师之间的指导关系，超越REU的持续时间，为REU参与者成长为更自信和独立的科学研究人员提供支持、指导和鼓励；以及(4)在STEM研究机会有限的代表不足的群体和学生中培养对生物医学工程研究的兴趣，这将影响REU参与者的职业规划，数百名学生通过该计划广泛的传播活动接触到了他们。每年夏天，12名REU参与者将接受实践研究培训，以鼓励他们为研究项目作出创造性贡献，最终通过在夏末研讨会上的讲台演讲和在全国会议上的海报展示的形式传播他们的工作。REU网站的预期影响是提供工程研究和研究过程方面的培训，培养持久的指导关系，并在REU学生和更广泛的社区中培养对STEM研究和高等教育的兴趣。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 Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site: Imaging and Mechanics-based Projects on Accidental Cases of Trauma (IMPACT) at Wake Forest University School of Medicine (WFSM) offers multidisciplinary biomedical engineering opportunities aimed to improve the fundamental understanding of trauma and injury. Aligned with their vision to build a diverse and robust STEM workforce training program, objectives emphasize training, educating, mentoring, and inspiring underrepresented students to pursue biomedical research and careers. Students, including those from underrepresented groups, will gain a fundamental understanding of injury research, develop critical thinking skills to grow as independent researchers, and be encouraged to pursue educational and career opportunities in biomedical research. The REU research will benefit society through development of predictive models for injury; advancements to military, automotive, sports, and spaceflight safety; and improvements to diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to prevent, mitigate, and treat injuries and associated sequela. Research findings will be disseminated via video snapshots, publications, conference abstracts, presentations, patents, and reports authored by REU students, with the goal of promoting STEM research and careers to hundreds of students who attend the summer symposium, visit the website, or interface with the REU students presenting at national conferences and their undergraduate colleges.The goals of the ten-week summer REU program are to (1) Offer biomedical engineering research training to students, and teach them medical imaging and biomechanics techniques, which they will apply to investigate mechanistic, physiological, anatomical, and other fundamental factors related to accidental trauma; (2) Educate students on the research process, research ethics, dissemination of findings through publication and presentation, and the societal implications of their research, through hands-on training paired with seminars focusing on biomedical research and professional development topics; (3) Cultivate mentoring relationships between REU participants, graduate students and faculty mentors that extend beyond the duration of the REU, providing support, guidance, and encouragement to the REU participants as they develop into more confident and independent scientific researchers; and (4) Foster an interest in biomedical engineering research within underrepresented groups and students with limited opportunities for STEM research, which will impact the career plans of the REU participants, and hundreds of students reached through the program's widespread dissemination campaign. Each summer, 12 REU participants will receive hands-on research training that encourages them to make creative contributions to research projects culminating in the dissemination of their work in the form of a podium presentation at the end-of-summer symposium, and a poster presentation at a national conference. The intended impact of the REU site is to impart training on engineering research and the research process, cultivate lasting mentoring relationships, and foster an interest in STEM research and higher education in the REU students and the broader community.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.