Research-Curriculum Development in Tissue Engineering

德雷克塞尔大学的组织工程CRCD课程是卡托教授和弗兰克·柯教授在先进生物材料方面三年多的合作研究和团队教学的产物，并在组织工程中强调了团队合作，实验室技能和沟通。 研究活动分为五个关键领域，包括：先进的生物材料，细胞-组织-结构相互作用，支架设计和制造，生物表面和计算机辅助组织工程。 该课程旨在提供最大的灵活性，以适应各种工程和科学MS和BS/MS课程。 在为组织工程专业设计的六门课程中，有三门是新课程，三门是从现有课程修改而来的。 这些课程是实验室密集型的，重点是团队项目。 将采用基于网络的成果评估方法来评估课程。 该课程开发建议的关键和独特之处在于：1）该方案利用基于网络的学习技术，不仅鼓励学生主动学习，而且一旦课程的功效得到验证，将允许在地方和国家一级迅速传播课程的组成部分。2)该计划涉及通过本富兰克林技术合作伙伴计划，国家资助的迈阿密工业联络组织，已承诺种子资金，开始课程计划的工业部分强有力的工业支持。 3)该计划有一个异常强烈的承诺，通过与宾夕法尼亚州的林肯大学，美国历史上最古老的黑人大学的联系，发展组织工程中代表性不足的少数民族科学家。

This CRCD program in Tissue Engineering at Drexel University, is an outgrowth of over three years of collaborative research and team teaching by Professors Cato Laurencin and Frank Ko in advanced biomaterials and a combined laboratory-lecture course in tissue engineering wherein team work, laboratory skills and communication are stressed. The research activities are organized into five key areas including: advanced biomaterials, cell-tissue-construct interaction, scaffold design and manufacturing, bio-surfaces, and computer aided tissue engineering. The curriculum is designed to give maximum flexibility to be adopted to various engineering and science MS and BS/MS programs. Of the six courses designed for the specialization in Tissue Engineering, three of them are new courses and three are modified from existing courses. These courses are laboratory intensive with emphasis on team projects. A web-based outcome assessment methodology will be employed to evaluate the curriculum. The key and unique features of this curriculum development proposal are:1)The program utilizes web-based learning techniques which not only will encourage student initiated learning, but will allow rapid dissemination of components of the curriculum at the local and national level, once the efficacy of the curriculum is validated. 2)The program involves strong industrial support through the Ben Franklin Technology Partnership Program, a state funded academia-industry liaison organization, which has pledged seed funds to begin the industrial component of the curriculum program. 3) The program has an unusually strong commitment to developing underrepresented minority scientists in Tissue Engineering through links with Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, the nation's oldest historically Black college.