Integrated Engineering and Rehabilitation Training

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案描述了我们的“综合工程和康复培训”计划，产生生物医学博士学位。毕业生谁结合联合收割机在神经刺激和一般康复工程与临床康复的实践和挑战的真正欣赏不容置疑的专业知识。该计划以凯斯西储大学生物医学工程系为中心，但也包括我们当地几个医疗中心的大力参与。我们的计划是专门专注于博士前培训，自1999年以来，我们已经培养了约25名学生。我们要求在五年内每年为总共8个培训职位提供资金，这将保持我们目前的支助水平。学员通常由该计划资助两年，因此我们预计将培养20名BME博士。学生在五年内。 我们的培训计划的具体目标是：（1）为我们的学员在以下方面的生产性职业做好准备： 康复和神经工程;（2）提供严格的工程教育，为未来的创新奠定基础;（3）提供神经刺激的开发和应用方面的专门知识，以克服神经系统疾病;（4）提供建模和仿真方面的专门知识（肌肉骨骼和/或神经）;（5）提供广泛的实践临床经验，为每个受训者的翻译职业做好准备;及（6）提供真实世界的专业发展培训，以提高毕业后的成功。 相关性：由于神经系统疾病导致的残疾是一个主要的医疗挑战，通常可以通过对特定神经结构施加电刺激来缓解。与神经刺激相关的研究和商业应用几乎呈指数级增长，导致对高素质博士学位的真实的需求。具有该计划提供的技术和临床背景的高级工程师。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal describes our "Integrated Engineering and Rehabilitation Training" program that produces biomedical Ph.D. graduates who combine an unquestioned expertise in neural stimulation and general rehabilitation engineering with a genuine appreciation of the practice and challenges of clinical rehabilitation. This program is centered in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Case Western Reserve University, but also includes the strong participation of several of our local medical centers. Our program is focused exclusively on predoctoral training and we have trained ~25 students since 1999. We are requesting funding for a total of 8 training positions per year for five years, which would maintain our current level of support. Trainees are typically funded by the program for two years each, so we expect to train a total of 20 BME Ph.D. students over the proposed five years. The specific objectives of our training program are: (1) Prepare our trainees for productive careers in rehabilitation and neural engineering; (2) Provide a rigorous engineering education that forms the basis for future innovation; (3) Provide specific expertise in the development and application of neural stimulation for overcoming neurological disorders; (4) Provide specific expertise in modeling and simulation (musculoskeletal and/or neural); (5) Provide an extensive, hands-on clinical experience that prepares each trainee for a translational career; and (6) Provide real-world professional development training to enhance post-graduation success. RELEVANCE: Disability due to neurological disorders is a major medical challenge that can often mitigated by application of electrical stimulation to specific neural structures. Research and commercial applications related to neural stimulation are growing almost exponentially, leading to a real need for highly qualified, Ph.D.-level engineers who have the technical and clinical backgrounds provided by this program.