Undegraduate Engineering in Medical Research

EEC-0244048克利夫兰临床基金会该奖项为克利夫兰临床基金会（CCF）Lerner研究所生物医学工程系的本科生研究经验（REU）网站提供了三年的资助。每年有八名学生从美国各地招募，将在CCF工作六个月。学生将有一个独特的机会参加国家的最先进的研究。研究重点将与工程相关，在生物医学领域的机会，如心血管辅助和替换，生物力学，图像处理，细胞分离过程，生物医学成像和BioMEMS（微机电系统的生物医学应用）。 这项活动的智力价值包括为美国公民或永久居民的学生提供参与前沿研究的机会，从而通过他们的REU项目做出独特的研究贡献。预计这项活动将产生重大的更广泛的影响，部分原因是该计划侧重于鼓励学生参与者将研究相关的职业视为可行的职业机会。这一重点有助于影响国家需要增加美国公民和永久居民的数量，他们有能力和兴趣在研究相关领域获得职业机会。 此外，该计划旨在通过积极从美国科学和工程领域代表性不足的群体中招收学生，满足国家增加这些群体参与的需求。

EEC-0244048 Cleveland Clinic FoundationThis award renews funding for three years for a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation's (CCF) Lerner Research Institute, Department of Biomedical Engineering. Eight students per year, recruited from throughout the United States, will work a nominally six-month-long term at the CCF. Students will have a unique opportunity to participate in state-of-the-art research. The research focus will be engineering-related, with opportunities in biomedical fields such as cardiovascular assist and replacement, biomechanics, image processing, cell separation processes, biomedical imaging, and BioMEMS (Biomedical applications of Microelectromechanical Systems). The Intellectual Merit of this activity includes opportunities for students that are U.S. citizens or permanent residents to engage in cutting-edge research and thus make a unique research contribution through their REU project. It is anticipated that significant Broader Impact will result from this activity, in part through the program's focus on encouraging student participants to consider research-related careers as a viable career opportunity. This focus helps to impact the national need to increase the number of U.S. citizens and permanent residents that have the capacity and interest for career opportunities in research-related fields. In addition, this program seeks to address the national need to increase the participation of population groups under-represented in science and engineering in the United States by actively recruiting students from these under-represented groups.