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。学生将参与生物医学仪器、临床轮转和转化生物医学工程等专业课程。五名学生将在大三和大四之间的夏季进行临床浸入式学习。学生的知识和经验将融入高级顶点设计课程，在那里他们将进行开放式设计和制造原型医疗设备。该研究教育计划的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。亚利桑那大学在生物医学工程研究方面有着悠久的历史，工程学院和医学院之间有着密切的联系（和物理上的接近），有丰富的设计和原型设计资源，以及现有的跨学科高级顶点设计课程，因此，亚利桑那大学在提供这一研究教育项目方面处于有利地位。在过去的12年里，生物医学工程的研究生跨学科项目一直是全校从事生物医学工程相关研究和教育的教师的纽带，其中包括一组致力于指导工程学生的医师教师。去年生物医学工程系的成立和本科学位课程的授权已经为这个项目的成功奠定了基础。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。我们建议在BME课程中增加新的教材和演讲嘉宾，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提供资金。该计划将使我们能够教育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，以及转化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。

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.