Training Program in Neuroengineering

我们提交了一个跨学科的神经工程计划的教育和培训未来的目标 几代科学家、教育家和创新者。我们建立在16年的神经工程经验基础上， 培训和超过60年的生物医学工程博士前培训。这个项目最突出的 特点是一个丰富的教育和协作研究环境跨越工程和医学 学校例如，我们的学生通过医学课程获得生物科学的深度， 学校或艺术和科学，以及定量和计算科学，通过工程课程 学校正在出现的变革性变化是与临床科学家合作， 探索，并将创新付诸实践。该项目的导师来自生物医学工程， 其他工程部门，头脑研究所，各种临床部门（神经病学，神经外科， 耳鼻喉科，放射学），艺术和科学学院（认知科学），以及应用物理学 实验室我们的研究计划是非常好的资助，我们保持了资金的所有优秀记录 未来几年的实习生我们的学生池在质量和增长方面都非常出色;我们继续从 一个高度竞争的国家人才库，近年来，我们的努力已经产生了一个非常平衡的性别人才库， 招募代表性不足的少数族裔的人数显著增加。在培训计划的当前阶段，我们 增加了临床神经工程作为一个新的轨道，实施的帮助下，一些高度重视 临床系我们已经解决了学生对翻译研究和职业的兴趣，通过增加一个 翻译神经工程轨道，涉及创业一套教师。这是在修订后的 神经工程2.0课程，例如，通过捕捉新兴趋势（和当前流行病相关 远程学习（e-TRAIN）课程。我们认为，这一创新 课程将使我们的学生在更多样化和令人兴奋的科学事业，不仅学术界， 越来越重要的职业在监管，工业和创业生涯。一个新的学生主导的倡议 是转化神经工程（TNT）的倡议，已经产生了一些令人兴奋的本地辅导 和外联活动。在此基础上，我们将实施新的神经工程xTranslation（NExT） 鼓励和指导对创业事业感兴趣的学员的举措。我们加大了努力 促进我们的培训人才库的多样性，实现性别平等，以及代表性不足的人数显著增长。 少数民族（URM）招聘。我们取得这一进展是通过一个深刻的承诺，从早期，前， 应用程序，后期阶段的'第二次看'的机会，教育和兴趣的URM在我们的计划。和 大学已经投入了大量的资源，全面加强URM的资金，教师， 多样性倡议。作为培训过程的最后一步，我们将实施严格的管理， 通过神经反馈（NERF）系统涉及我们广泛的校友社区的结果评估。

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.