Enhancing Undergraduate Bioengineering Education through Engaged Service Learning, Clinical Immersion, and Entrepreneurship

通过参与服务学习、临床沉浸和创业精神加强本科生生物工程教育

• 批准号: 10414613
• 负责人: MICHAEL CHO
• 金额: $ 4.16万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS ARLINGTON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2026-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10414613
• 关键词: Active Learning; Address; Advanced Development; Area; Awareness; Bachelor' s Degree; Biomedical Engineering; Businesses; Characteristics; Clinical; Clinics and Hospitals; Communities; Community Health; Community Integration; Complex; Country; Critical Thinking; Development; Device or Instrument Development; Devices; Education; Educational Curriculum; Educational workshop; Emergency medical service; Engineering; Entrepreneurship; Exposure to; Face; Feedback; Foundations; Goals; Health; Hospitals; Human; Immersion; Industry; Intuition; Joints; Knowledge; Learning; Medical; Medical Device; Medical Technology; Medical center; Medicine; Mentors; Mentorship; Minority Groups; Minority-Serving Institution; Occupations; Population; Population Growth; Process; Public Health; Regulatory Affairs; Regulatory Pathway; Research; Risk; Science; Series; Services; Societies; Student recruitment; Students; Technology; Texas; Training; Translating; Translations; Universities; Work; base; career; clinically relevant; cohort; commercialization; community involvement; design; early experience; engineering design; expectation; experience; ideation; improved; innovation; leadership development; learning outcome; lens; next generation; programs; service learning; skill acquisition; skills; social; undergraduate student; underrepresented minority student; underserved area

Abstract The unique characteristics of the training needed for today’s biomedical engineers to face complex and cross- disciplinary problems impart difficulties in curriculum design. The need to accommodate a sufficiently strong background in foundational science and engineering as well as the diverse areas of biomedical engineering often results in a full set of technically-heavy didactic courses with little opportunity for experiential training prior to the capstone senior design course. As a result of the lack of practical experience, biomedical engineering graduates entering the workforce may struggle due to under-developed soft skills, critical thinking, or the clinical mindset needed to succeed in a professional biomedical team setting. To address this need, we propose to enhance our curriculum by facilitating earlier exposure to hands-on team based design and experiential learning in clinical and industry relevant practice. We will specifically implement new components of a team service-learning design course at the sophomore level, a summer clinical immersion program with local hospitals and emergency medical services at the junior level, and a team-centered workshop led by local industry experts on the translation and commercialization of medical devices to augment the senior design experience. Providing students with needs- based service-learning design projects will prepare them in developing technologies that will not only address public health concerns but also be welcomed by the community and enhance their understanding of the importance of engineering in service to society. Building upon this through new partnerships in the proposed program for clinical immersion, students will gain proficiency in identifying and evaluating unmet clinical needs as well as gain meaningful perspectives related to human factors and expectations for design of a quality medical device. Students will also benefit from a design team-centered workshop series that will be led by local industry experts through activities that will improve their understanding of the industry-relevant practices for development, and how to navigate the regulatory approval processes to translate and commercialize their senior design technologies. Through this three-tiered enhancement to our program that takes students through the complete progression from needs finding to commercialization, students will gain the practical experience early on and repeatedly throughout their undergraduate studies. By strengthen their skills spanning engineering, medicine, and business this program will help our graduates meet the needs of the biomedical workforce and serve as the next generation of entrepreneurs in the biomedical industry.

抽象的 当今生物医学工程师面临复杂和跨领域的培训所需的独特特征 纪律问题给课程设计带来困难。需要容纳足够强大的 具有基础科学和工程以及生物医学工程各个领域的背景 结果是一整套技术性很强的教学课程，在开始之前几乎没有机会进行体验式培训 顶点高级设计课程。由于缺乏实践经验，生物医学工程毕业生 由于软技能、批判性思维或临床思维方式欠发达，进入劳动力市场可能会遇到困难 在专业的生物医学团队环境中取得成功所需要的。为了满足这一需求，我们建议加强我们的 通过促进早期接触临床实践团队设计和体验式学习来提供课程 以及行业相关实践。我们将专门实施团队服务学习设计的新组成部分 大二课程，与当地医院和紧急医疗中心的夏季临床沉浸项目 初级服务，以及由当地行业专家主持的以团队为中心的研讨会，内容涉及翻译和 医疗设备的商业化以增强高级设计经验。为学生提供需求—— 基于服务学习的设计项目将使他们为开发技术做好准备，这些技术不仅可以解决 不仅受到公众的关注，而且受到社会的欢迎并增强了他们对公共卫生的认识 工程在服务社会方面的重要性。在此基础上，通过拟议的新伙伴关系 临床沉浸计划，学生将熟练地识别和评估未满足的临床需求 以及获得与人为因素相关的有意义的观点以及对优质医疗设计的期望 设备。学生还将受益于由当地行业主导的以设计团队为中心的研讨会系列 专家们通过活动提高他们对行业相关发展实践的理解， 以及如何引导监管审批流程以转化其高级设计并将其商业化 技术。通过对我们课程的三层改进，让学生完成完整的学习 从需求发现到商业化的过程，学生将尽早获得实践经验 在整个本科学习过程中反复出现。通过加强他们的工程、医学技能， 该计划将帮助我们的毕业生满足生物医学劳动力的需求，并作为 生物医药行业的下一代企业家。