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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

基本信息

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
项目类别：
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&apos 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

项目摘要

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.

摘要