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经验，培养本科生在多学科团队中工作，以设计解决工程和生命系统界面上具有挑战性的现实生物医学问题的解决方案。拟议的培训采用建模、脚手架、辅导和衰落等教学元素来教授设计原则。主动学习工作室风格的课程，解决负责任的研究行为，结合以探究为基础的设计实验室，在多学科和多元文化环境中由教师和临床导师支持，将本科生转变为具有理论知识，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，学生充分体验设计过程，从需求识别和想法产生，通过迭代过程，最终解决问题。接触技术转移、知识产权和商业化的原则和成功案例，为学生将他们的设计从课堂推向临床市场做好准备。招生活动将专门针对增加未被充分代表的种族、民族和女性群体以及残疾人和弱势背景的学生人数。研究结果和最佳做法将通过会议报告、期刊文章和互联网传播。

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.