SCIP, HOP & JUMP: Summer Clinical Immersion Program, Hands on Prototyping, and Jump-starting Design Projects towards Translation

项目总结/摘要 联合学院的ABET认证的生物医学工程（BME）计划强调密切 师生互动和动手学习教育本科生，最终在一个 沉浸式的高年级Capstone设计体验。作为下一代医疗器械设计师，BME 学生需要迎接创新和开发解决方案的挑战，以解决 目前的医疗器械技术，同时导航一个非常复杂的途径，以商业化的新的 医疗器械该提案的基石是与奥尔巴尼医疗中心建立的合作关系 学院的生物医学加速和商业化中心（AMC/BACC），使高影响力 在临床环境中学习。此外，联盟是进一步丰富其BME课程与扩大，两个- 学期（20周）顶点设计课程序列。有了这些要素， 支持开发增强的Capstone设计体验，有三个具体目标：（1）创建一个 可持续的夏季临床沉浸计划（SCIP）;（2）提供增强的动手原型（HOP） 解决方案迭代的机会，与密切的教师监督和外部导师在整个 顶点设计课程序列;和（3）跳转启动（JUMP）设计项目翻译。的 建议的教育活动将使学生开始他们的顶点设计经验早，在 他们的春季学期，并通过他们的春季学期延长他们的设计工作， 高三那年这一整年的经验加上项目教师，医生，行业 专家和企业家将显着提高学生的能力，遍历路径从最初的问题， 识别到原型解决方案开发。拟议的增强型Capstone设计体验将 也让学生有更多的时间深入探索生物医学设备翻译相关的问题， 他们毕业了。成功的一个衡量标准是已经被证明的解决方案的商业化潜力。 由学生团队制作的原型。AMC/BACC的技术转让过程将被用来评估 设计的专利性，AMC/BACC的专业知识将有助于确定团队的可行性， 公司将其解决方案推向翻译。第二个衡量成功的标准是 对毕业生进行调查，以确定他们选择了什么样的职业道路， 三个目标更好地为学生做好准备，并为他们在各种职业中取得成功开辟新的机会 与生物医学技术发展相关的路径。评估数据将用于通知新的 顶点设计体验元素的迭代，包括课程材料，教学方法， 导师，主题领域，设施和设备的原型，这将提高学生的成功发展 解决医疗问题，并在生物医学设备开发中找到富有成效的职业生涯。

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Union College's ABET accredited Biomedical Engineering (BME) Program places an emphasis on close faculty-student interaction and hands-on learning in educating undergraduate students, culminating in an immersive Senior year Capstone Design experience. As the next generation of medical device designers, BME students need to meet the challenges of innovating and developing solutions to address shortcomings in current medical device technology while navigating a very complex pathway to commercialization of a new medical device. At the cornerstone of this proposal is an established collaboration with the Albany Medical College's Biomedical Acceleration and Commercialization Center (AMC/BACC), which enables high-impact learning in a clinical setting. In addition, Union is further enriching its BME curriculum with an expanded, two- term (20-week) Capstone Design Course Sequence. With these elements in place, the framework exists to support the development of an enhanced Capstone Design experience with three specific aims: (1) Create a sustainable Summer Clinical Immersion Program (SCIP); (2) Offer enhanced hands-on prototyping (HOP) opportunities for solution iteration in tandem with close faculty supervision and external mentorship throughout the Capstone Design Course Sequence; and (3) Jump-start (JUMP) design projects towards translation. The proposed educational activities will enable students to begin their Capstone Design experience earlier, during the Spring term of their Junior year, and extend the work on their designs through the Spring term of their Senior year. This full year experience coupled with mentorship by program faculty, physicians, industry experts, and entrepreneurs will significantly increase students' ability to traverse the path from initial problem identification to prototype solution development. The proposed enhanced Capstone Design experience will also give students more time for in-depth exploration of issues related to biomedical device translation before they graduate. One measure of success will be the commercialization potential of the solutions that have been prototyped by the student teams. AMC/BACC's technology transfer process will be employed to assess patentability of designs, and the expertise at AMC/BACC will help determine the viability of the team forming a company to advance their solution towards translation. A second measure of success will be obtained by surveying graduates to determine what career paths they have chosen, demonstrating that achievement of the three aims better prepares students and opens up new opportunities for them to succeed in a variety of career paths related to the development of biomedical technology. Assessment data will be used to inform new iterations of the Capstone Design experience elements, including course materials, instruction methods, mentors, topic areas, facilities, and equipment for prototyping that will improve students' success in developing solutions to medical problems and finding productive careers in biomedical device development.