A Multidisciplinary and Needs-Driven Approach to Translational Team-Based Biomedi

描述(由申请人提供)：本提案的目标是开发和实施一种教育体验，培训本科生在多学科团队中工作，设计解决方案，解决工程和生活系统界面上具有挑战性的、真实世界的生物医学问题。拟议的培训采用建模、脚手架、指导和褪色等教学元素来教授设计原理。主动学习工作室式的课程旨在解决研究中的负责任行为，并与基于探究的实验室和设计实验室相结合，这些实验室在多学科和多文化环境中得到教师和临床导师的支持，将本科生转变为具备理论知识、创造力、道德行为和强大的解决问题能力的实践工程师。在建议的课程中，学生充分体验从需求识别到想法产生的设计过程，通过迭代过程最终解决问题。接触到技术转让、知识产权和商业化的原则和成功范例，使学生准备好将他们的设计从课堂带到临床市场。招生活动将专门针对增加来自代表性不足的种族、民族和女性群体以及残疾个人和弱势背景的学生人数。研究结果和最佳实践的传播将通过会议报告、期刊文章和互联网进行。 与公共健康相关：我们拟议的设计培训将使我们的本科生物医学工程师能够在多学科团队中工作，并有效地生成和贡献具有挑战性的、复杂的、现实世界的临床和医疗保健问题的解决方案。这些学生将了解产品周期，能够认识到新发现或新技术的潜力以满足当前需求，具有创造性并设计临床问题的解决方案，并准备将他们的创新转化为临床解决方案。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The objective of this proposal is to develop and implement an educational experience that trains undergraduates to work on multidisciplinary teams to design solutions that address challenging, real-world biomedical problems at the interface of engineering and living systems. The proposed training employs pedagogical elements of modeling, scaffolding, coaching and fading to teach design principles. Active learning studio style courses that address responsible conduct in research are coupled with inquiry-based and design laboratories that are supported by faculty and clinical mentors within multidisciplinary and multicultural environments to transform the undergraduate students to practicing engineers well equipped with theoretical knowledge, creativity, ethical behavior, and strong problem solving skills. Within the proposed curriculum, the students fully experience the design process from need identification and idea generation through the iterative process to ultimately resolve the problem. Exposure to principles and successful examples of technology transfer, intellectual property, and commercialization prepare the students to take their design from the classroom to the clinical market. Recruitment activities will specifically target increasing the numbers of students from underrepresented racial, ethnic, and female groups as well as individuals with disabilities and those from disadvantaged backgrounds. Dissemination of findings and best practices will be through conference presentations, journal articles, and the internet. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Our proposed design training will prepare our undergraduate biomedical engineers to work on multidisciplinary teams and effectively generate and contribute to the solution of challenging, complex, real-world clinical and healthcare problems. These students will understand the product cycle, be able to recognize the potential for a new discovery or technology to address a current need, be creative and design solutions to clinical problems, and be prepared to translate their innovations into clinical solutions.