Research Experience For Undergraduates (REU): Particpation in Research Projects in Biomedical Engineering Laboratories

在这个REU现场项目中，12名工科本科生将参加生物医学工程系成员实验室的研究项目。有机会研究生物医学仪器、传感器、假体、生物材料、神经生理学和神经模型、心脏瓣膜生理学和模型、数学模型以及膜和细胞生理学。学生将根据他们的经验、从参与中获得的好处和一份简短的建议来选择参加该计划。参与者将在教职员工的日常监督下进行研究项目，这些项目是学生在教师导师的指导下开发的。学生将在每周一次的研讨会系列中讨论他们的研究项目，这将给学生提供展示研究计划和结果以及与同龄人讨论他们的工作的经验。数量有限的学生将能够在全国会议上介绍他们项目的成果。学生将参与以下项目的研究和实验室经验的例子：(1)通过耳朵、眼睛和触觉(皮肤和位置)感觉处理语音的基础和应用研究，(2)生物传感器的聚合物基离子选择性电极技术，(3)声学环境的表示和听觉神经系统的信息处理；(4)心脏电和机械特性的细胞学基础的研究。

In this REU Site program, 12 undergraduate engineering students will participate in research projects in the laboratories of members of the Biomedical Engineering Department. Opportunities are available for research on biomedical instrumentation, sensors, prosthetics, biomaterials, neurophysiology, and neural modelling, cardiovalsular physiology and modelling, mathematical modelling, and membrane and cellular physiology. Students will be selected for the program on the basis of their experience, the benefit to be derived from participation and a brief proposal. Participants will work under the day-to-day supervision of faculty members on research projects which the students have developed under the guidance of a faculty mentor. Students will discuss their research projects in a weekly seminar series which will give students experience in presenting research plans and results and in discussing their work with their peers. A limited number of students will be able to present results of their projects at national meetings. Examples of research and laboratory experiences that will involve the student in the following projects: (1) basic and applied research on the processing of speech by ear, eyes, and haptic (cutaneous and positional) senses, (2) polymer-based, ion- selective electrode technology for biological sensors, (3) representation of the acoustic environment and the information processing of the auditory nervous system, and (4) the investigation of the cellular basis for the electrical and mechanical properties of the heart.