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，总体目标是通过建立现有的合作伙伴关系，增加生物医学工程（BME）的少数族裔本科生的数量，纽约城市学院是一个公共资助的少数族裔服务机构，资源有限，BME的教师与纽约市目前八家卓越的医学研究机构的研究人员之间的合作关系。这个联盟被称为纽约生物医学工程中心，是纽约市立大学的官方研究所。在目前的申请中，这一目标被扩展到为我们的学生提供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，并利用我们新成立的行业咨询委员会。董事会将提供输入到我们的课程，特别是关于我们的高级BME顶点设计课程。更新申请还包含了保留和招聘的新策略，创建了一个导师和教学伙伴计划，将每个学生学者与高级博士学生紧密结合起来，并扩展了我们的高中拓展计划，我们将与高中指导顾问和助理科学原则建立战略关系，以招募对生命科学和/或工程感兴趣的有才华的高成就学生。

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.