Collaborative Research: RAPD - The BME-IDEA Competition, Assessing Innovative Design in Biomedical Engineering Education

最近的报告，文章和声明，包括美国竞争力倡议已经解决创新和美国竞争力。这个项目将解决创新这一重要问题。本提案的目标是加强生物医学工程的创新，并了解创新本身的过程。该提案将侧重于开发和验证一种方法来衡量学生设计团队的创新，并确定学生团队用于制定创新设计的策略。总体而言，综合方法包括德尔菲法，用于主题开发，概念流程图和设计过程中的反思日志，以及后续学生和教师的问题。该提案建立在他们之前的工作以及其他人之前的工作的基础上。该提案将利用参与大学的学生团体，同时也利用BME-IDEA竞赛的资源。合作大学和NCIIA的参与以及BME-IDEA竞赛的加入为该项目增添了强大的元素。该项目解决了一个重要的国家问题，即与美国竞争力相关的创新。该项目将使生物医学教育工作者了解学生团队在设计过程中使用的过程，以及可以衡量创新的一个或多个工具。生物医学工程专业的学生将在他们的职业生涯早期欣赏和理解创新设计。

0602484WeilersteinRecent reports, articles and statements including American Competitiveness Initiative have been addressing innovation and US competitiveness. This project will address the important issue of innovation. The goal of this proposal is to enhance innovation in biomedical engineering and to understand the process of innovation itself. The proposal will focus on the development and validation of a method to measure student design team innovation and to identify the strategies that student teams use to formulate innovative designs. Overall, the integrated approach includes Delphi method for rubric development, conceptual process maps and reflective journaling during the design process, and follow-up student and faculty questioners.The proposal builds on their prior work as well as the prior work of others. The proposal will utilize student groups at the participating universities while also capitalizing on the resources of the BME-IDEA competition. The collaborator universities and the involvement of the NCIIA and the inclusion of the BME-IDEA competition add strong elements to the project.The project addresses an important national issue, innovation related to US competitiveness. The project will provide biomedical educators with an understanding of the process student teams employ during the design process, along with a tool or tools that can measure innovation. The biomedical engineering students will appreciate and understand innovative design earlier in their careers.