Team-Based Design of Biomedical Devices

描述(由申请人提供)：本提案描述了一个基于团队的生物医学工程设备设计项目，致力于培养本科生。学生将参加生物医学器械、临床轮换和平移生物医学工程方面的专业课程。五名学生将被选为在三年级和四年级之间的暑期进行临床沉浸。学生们的知识和经验将融入高级顶石设计课程，在那里他们将进行开放式设计并制造出一个医疗器械原型。这一研究教育计划的一个主要目标是满足日益增长的生物医学工程领域的需求和对跨学科劳动力的需求。亚利桑那大学拥有丰富的生物医学工程研究历史，工程学院和医学院之间的紧密联系(和物理上的接近)，丰富的设计和原型资源，以及现有的强大的跨学科高级顶石设计课程，因此亚利桑那大学处于提供这一研究教育项目的有利地位。过去12年来，生物医学工程的跨学科研究生项目一直是校园内从事生物医学工程相关研究和教育的教职员工之间的纽带，其中包括一群致力于工程专业学生指导的内科教员。去年成立了生物医学工程系，并批准了一个本科学位课程，这为该课程的成功奠定了基础。由于我们的本科课程相对较新，来自拟议项目的资源将对我们的学生产生重大的积极影响。我们建议用新的教育材料和嘉宾演讲者来增加BME课程，提供独特的临床沉浸体验，并为学生提供额外的导师和跨学科设计课程的资金。这一计划将使我们能够培养未来的生物医学工程师，他们拥有强大的工程设计技能、临床环境知识以及翻译生物医学工程方面的培训，使他们能够将他们的设备从实验室带到临床和市场，对人类健康产生积极影响。 公共卫生相关性：根据劳工部的就业增长预测，生物医学工程将在未来10年引领就业增长。需要具有强大团队设计能力的生物医学工程师来进一步医学创新和创造新的医疗器械。我们提出了一个本科生研究教育计划，将教育学生在临床环境，设计过程，监管要求，和负责任的研究行为，最终在一个高级顶石设计项目。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal describes a program in team-based design of biomedical engineering devices, dedicated to training undergraduate students. Students will participate in specialized courses in biomedical instrumentation, clinical rotation, and translational biomedical engineering. Five students will be selected to engage in a clinical immersion in the summer between the junior and senior years. The students' knowledge and experience will feed into a senior capstone design course, where they will perform open-ended design and fabricate a prototype medical device. A major goal of this research education program is to meet the demands of a growing biomedical engineering field and needs for an interdisciplinary workforce. The University of Arizona is well positioned to provide this research education program due to a strong history of biomedical engineering research, close ties (and physical proximity) between the Colleges of Engineering and Medicine, abundant resources for design and prototyping, and a strong existing interdisciplinary senior capstone design course. A graduate interdisciplinary program in biomedical engineering has served for the last 12 years as a nexus for faculty across campus who engage in biomedical engineering- related research and education, including a group of physician faculty who are committed to engineering student mentoring. The formation in the last year of a department of Biomedical Engineering and authorization of an undergraduate degree program has put into place the final pieces needed for the success of this program. Because of the relative newness of our undergraduate program, the resources from the proposed project would have a major positive impact on our students. We propose to augment BME courses with new educational material and guest speakers, provide a unique clinical immersion experience, and provide additional mentors and supply funds to students the interdisciplinary design course. This program will enable us to educate the biomedical engineers of the future, who have strong engineering design skills, knowledge of the clinical environment, and training in translational biomedical engineering that will enable them to take their devices from the laboratory to the clinic and the marketplace, positively affecting human health. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Based on Labor Department job growth projections, Biomedical engineering will lead employment growth in the next 10 years. Biomedical engineers with strong team-based design skills are needed to further medical innovation and create new medical devices. We propose an undergraduate research education plan that will educate students in the clinical environment, design process, regulatory requirements, and responsible conduct of research, culminating in a senior capstone design project.