Training Program in Neuroengineering

我们提交了一个跨学科的神经工程项目，目标是培养和培训未来 一代又一代的科学家、教育家和创新者。我们在神经工程领域积累了16年的经验 培养和培养了60多年生物医学工程博士后。该节目最引人注目的是 Feature是一个丰富的教育和协作研究环境，横跨工程学和医学 学校。例如，我们的学生通过医学课程获得生物科学的深度。 学校或文科和理科，以及工程学课程中的定量和计算科学 学校。正在出现的变革性变化是与临床科学家合作将 发现并将创新付诸实践。该项目的导师来自生物医学工程公司， 其他工程学系、心脑研究所、各种临床科室(神经内科、神经外科、 艺术与科学学院(认知科学)和应用物理学 实验室。我们的研究项目资金非常充足，我们保持着资助所有 未来几年的实习生。我们的学生队伍在质量上出类拔萃，而且在不断增长；我们继续从 一个竞争激烈的国家池，近年来，我们的努力产生了非常平衡的性别池和 在招募代表不足的少数族裔方面取得了显著增长。在当前阶段的培训计划中，我们 已将临床神经工程学添加为新的赛道，在许多备受推崇的 临床教员。我们已经满足了学生对翻译研究和职业的兴趣，增加了 翻译神经工程课程，涉及一批具有创业精神的教职员工。这是在修订后的 例如，神经工程学2.0课程，通过捕捉新兴趋势(以及当前与大流行相关的 远程学习的必要性)，远程学习(e-培训)课程。我们相信，这一创新 课程将使我们的学生在更多样化和更令人兴奋的科学职业生涯中做好准备，不仅是学术界，而且 在监管、工业和创业职业中的职业越来越重要。一项由学生主导的新倡议 翻译神经工程(TNT)计划已经催生了几个令人兴奋的当地指导 和外展活动。在这一成功的基础上，我们将实施新的神经工程x翻译(Next) 鼓励和指导对创业事业感兴趣的受训人员。我们已经加大了努力 促进我们受训人才库的多样性，实现性别平等，并在任职人数不足的情况下显著增长 少数族裔(URM)招聘。我们通过坚定的承诺取得了这一进展，从早期、前期到 从应用程序到后期的“第二看”机会，以教育和感兴趣的城市管理人员在我们的计划。和 大学已投入大量资源，全面加强URM的资金、师资和 多样性倡议。作为培训之旅的最后一步，我们将实施严格的管理和 通过我们广泛的校友社区参与的神经反馈(NERF)系统来评估结果。

We submit an interdisciplinary NeuroEngineering program with the goal of educating and training future generations of scientists, educators and innovators. We build on 16 years of experience with neuroengineering training and more than 60 years of Biomedical Engineering predoctoral training. The program’s most salient feature is a rich educational and collaborative research environment straddling both the engineering and medical schools. For example, our students acquire depth in the biological sciences through courses in the medical school or arts and sciences, and quantitative and computational sciences through courses in the engineering school. The emerging transformative change is the opportunity to work with clinical scientists to translate the discoveries and bringing the innovations into practice. Mentors to the program are from Biomedical Engineering, other engineering departments, the Mind-Brain Institute, various clinical departments (Neurology, Neurosurgery, Otolaryngology, Radiology), the School of Arts and Sciences (Cognitive Sciences), and the Applied Physics Laboratory. Our research program is very well funded and we maintain an outstanding record of funding all trainees in future years. Our student pool has been exceptional in quality and growing; we continue to draw from a highly competitive national pool, and in recent years our efforts have yielded a very balanced gender pool and a remarkable growth in recruiting under-represented minority. For the current phase of the training program, we have added Clinical NeuroEngineering as a new track, implemented with the help of a number of highly regarded clinical faculty. We have addressed the student interest in translational research and careers, by adding a Translational NeuroEngineering track, involving entrepreneurial set of faculty. This is captured in a revised NeuroEngineering 2.0 curriculum, for example, by capturing the emerging trend (and current pandemic-related necessity) of distance learning, a distance learning (e-TRAIN) curriculum. We believe that this innovative curriculum will prepare our students in more diverse and exciting scientific careers, not only academia but also increasingly important careers in regulatory, industrial and entrepreneurial careers. A new student-led initiative has been the Translational NeuroEngineering (TNT) initiative that has spawned several exciting local mentoring and outreach activities. Building on this success, we will implement a new NeuroEngineering xTranslation (NExT) initiative to encourage and mentor trainees interested in entrepreneurial careers. We have increased our effort to promote diversity in our trainee pool, achieving gender parity, and a remarkable growth in under-represented minority (URM) recruiting. We have achieved this progress through a deep commitment, from early, pre- application, to late-phase ‘second look’ opportunities to educate and interest the URMs in our program. and University has poured significant resources for across the board enhancement of URM funding, faculty, and diversity initiatives. As the final step in the training journey, we will put in place a tight management and evaluation of outcomes through the NeuroFeedback (NErF) system involving our extensive alumni community.