Transforming the BME Design Experience from Freshman to Senior Year

BME 设计体验从大一到大四的转变

• 批准号: 10413653
• 负责人: JOEL L BERRY
• 金额: $ 4.32万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-07-01 至 2027-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10413653
• 关键词: Address; Alabama; Berry; Biomedical Engineering; Businesses; Clinical; Collaborations; Comprehension; Computer software; Coupled; Development; Device or Instrument Development; Devices; Disabled Persons; Education; Educational Curriculum; Educational process of instructing; Engineering; Entrepreneurship; Exposure to; Faculty; Feedback; Fostering; Foundations; Free Will; Healthcare Systems; Hospitals; Immersion; Instruction; Learning; Medical; Medical Device; Medical Technology; Medicine; Mission; Modeling; Orthopedic Surgery; Output; Participant; Procedures; Process; Public Health; Science; Self-Help Devices; Services; Student recruitment; Students; Technology; Thinking; Time; Translating; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Work; aging population; cohesion; commercialization; course sequence; design; disability; disabled students; early experience; engineering design; experience; improved; innovation; interdisciplinary approach; learning outcome; lectures; multidisciplinary; neurosurgery; novel; pandemic disease; product development; programs; prototype; satisfaction; simulation; software development; success; undergraduate student

Project Summary/Abstract Most senior design courses in Biomedical Engineering (BME) challenge students with the task of creating engineered solutions to unsolved clinical problems. This experience, however, is often the first time in the curriculum that students are exposed to needs finding, communicating with clinicians, following an engineering process to generate innovative solutions, and incorporating user feedback. Through the proposed activities, we will introduce clinical innovation experiences earlier in the curriculum so that BME students enter their capstone year as experienced innovators. We will capitalize on existing partnerships between medicine, engineering and business in design, innovation, and entrepreneurship to form an early interdisciplinary BME education that fosters more experienced and creative biomedical engineers well into the 21st century. Three specific opportunities for strategic enhancement of the BME undergraduate experience at UAB have been identified. First, there is a need to create a cohesive experience for BME underclassmen, as student exposure to BME faculty and content is limited in the first two years. Secondly, there is a large gap in time between the early design courses and the senior capstone, during which exposure to clinical problems is sparse, and design/innovation are not emphasized. Thirdly, there is a need for higher level engineering design activities in the capstone experience. The objective of the present proposal will be met through three aims. The first aim is to introduce to clinical innovation and design thinking to freshmen and sophomores by providing needs finding opportunities in a clinical setting and guiding them toward development of solutions to clinical problems in a classroom setting. In the second aim, ten rising BME juniors will take part in a 10-week summer clinical immersion in which they will perform needs finding and customer discovery surrounding medical/assistive devices or processes, develop a preliminary design/prototype, and create a business model. A faculty team will screen their output for use in the upcoming senior design course. The third aim is to enhancement the senior capstone experience by accelerating the project selection process and teaching best design practices during the first semester. In the second semester, new online modules covering business topics will free up valuable class time for advanced engineering topics and design activities that will improve student learning outcomes and increase the potential for novel, patentable designs. In addition, we will launch a new effort with the UAB Office of Disability Support Services (DSS) to recruit students with disabilities into our undergraduate program. People with disabilities represent a powerful stakeholder and given our record of accomplishment for product development in this space, this activity will serve to improve overall success and involve an underserved constituent in engineering.

项目摘要/摘要 生物医学工程（BME）的大多数高级设计课程都挑战学生的任务 工程解决方案用于未解决的临床问题。但是，这种经历通常是第一次 在工程学之后，学生接触需要寻找的课程，与临床医生进行沟通 生成创新解决方案并结合用户反馈的过程。通过拟议的活动，我们 将在课程中介绍临床创新经验，以便BME学生进入顶峰 一年是经验丰富的创新者。我们将利用医学，工程和 设计，创新和企业家的业务，形成早期的跨学科BME教育 到21世纪，培养经验丰富和创造性的生物医学工程师。三个具体 已经确定了UAB的BME本科经验的战略性增强的机会。 首先，有必要为BME低年级学生创造一个凝聚力的体验，因为学生接触BME 在头两年中，教师和内容受到限制。其次，早期设计之间的时间差距很大 课程和高级顶峰，在此期间暴露于临床问题的情况很少，设计/创新 不强调。第三，需要在顶峰上进行更高级别的工程设计活动 经验。本提案的目的将通过三个目标来满足。第一个目的是介绍 通过提供需求找到机会，向新生和大二学生提供临床创新和设计思维 临床环境，并指导他们在课堂环境中开发解决临床问题的解决方案。 在第二个目标中，十名上升的BME大三学生将参加为期10周的夏季临床沉浸 将执行需求发现和客户发现周围的医疗/辅助设备或流程，开发 初步设计/原型，并创建一个业务模型。教师团队将筛选其输出以供在 即将举行的高级设计课程。第三个目的是增强高级顶石体验 在第一学期加速项目选择过程和教授最佳设计实践。在 第二学期，涵盖业务主题的新在线模块将为高级腾出宝贵的课程时间 工程主题和设计活动将改善学生的学习成果并提高潜力 用于新颖，可申请的专利设计。此外，我们将在UAB残疾人办公室发起新的努力 服务（DSS）将残疾学生招募到我们的本科课程中。残疾人 代表一个强大的利益相关者，并给予我们在这个领域的产品开发成就记录， 这项活动将有助于改善整体成功，并涉及工程服务欠佳的组成部分。