A National Urban Model for Minority Undergraduate Biomedical Education

描述(由申请人提供)：在我们目前的拨款中，总体目标是通过在现有合作伙伴关系的基础上，增加接受生物医学工程(BME)培训的少数族裔本科生的数量，合作伙伴是纽约城市学院生物医学工程(BME)的教员，这是一家资源有限的公共资助的少数族裔服务机构，目前纽约市八家著名的医学研究机构的研究人员。这个联盟被称为纽约生物医学工程中心，是纽约州立大学的官方研究所。在目前的申请中，这一目标被扩大到包括我们的学生在医疗保健相关技术的主要工业公司网络中的实习和就业机会，以及我们新成立的行业咨询委员会的利用。董事会将为我们的课程提供意见，特别是关于我们的高级BME顶石设计课程。续签申请还包含了留住和招聘的新战略，创建了导师和教学伙伴计划，将每个学生学者与一名高级博士生紧密结合起来，并扩大了我们的高中外展计划，在该计划中，我们将与高中指导顾问和科学助理原理建立战略关系，以招收对生命科学和/或工程感兴趣的有才华的高成就学生。 我们还将扩大与STEM和College Now计划的合作伙伴关系，帮助代表人数不足的学生为上大学和在科学、工程和数学领域就业做好准备。为了实现这些目标，我们提出了以下四个具体目标： 1.建立并维持一个稳定的年度基地，由20名成绩优异的少数民族学者组成，这些学者的GPA至少为3.0。 2.建立导师和留住计划，在该计划中，每个本科生学者的薪酬都低于 指导一名高级BME博士生。 3.与精选的生物技术公司建立一个工业外展计划，为夏季提供 四年级设计课程的实习和设计项目，以及其他改善 课程设置。 4.将我们现有的外展计划扩展到市中心的高中。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In our current grant the overall goal was to increase the number of minority undergraduate students trained in biomedical engineering (BME) by building on an existing partnership, between faculty in BME at The City College of New York, a publicly funded minority-serving institution with limited resources, and researchers in currently eight of the preeminent medical research institutions in New York City. This consortium is known as the New York Center for Biomedical Engineering and is an official CUNY Institute. In the current application this goal is expanded to include internships and employment opportunities for our students in a network of major industrial firms in health care related technology and the utilization of our newly established Industry Advisory Board. The Board will provide input into our curriculum, especially with regard to our senior BME capstone design course. The renewal application also contains new strategies for retention and recruitment, the creation of a mentorship and teaching fellow program which will closely integrate each student scholar with a senior Ph.D. student and an expansion of our high school outreach program in which we will establish strategic relationships with high school guidance counselors and assistant principles of science to recruit talented high achieving students who are interested in the life sciences and/or engineering. We will also expand our collaborative partnership with STEM and the College Now program to help prepare underrepresented students for college and careers in science, engineering and mathematics. To achieve these goals we propose the following four specific objectives: 1. To build and maintain a steady state annual base of 20 high achieving minority scholars in BME who have a GPA of at least 3.0. 2. To build a mentorship and retention program in which each undergraduate scholar is under the paid supervision of an advanced BME Ph.D. student. 3. To build an industrial outreach program with select biotech companies which will provide summer Internships and design projects for the senior year design course and other feedback for improving the curriculum. 4. To expand our existing outreach program to inner-city high schools.