Workshop: Support for Enhanced Focus on Rehabilitation and Assistive Devices at the 2011 Summer Bioengineering Conference, June 22-26, 2011, Farmington, PA

主要研究者：Vorp，大卫A.提案编号：1126228夏季生物工程会议（SBC）是由美国机械工程师协会生物工程部（BED）主办的高质量、多学科年度生物医学工程活动。2011年SBC将于6月22日至26日在宾夕法尼亚州法明顿的Nemacolin林地度假村举行。这次会议的一个标志是严格的工程原理和生物概念的相互作用和真正的整合。然而，多年来，SBC以及BED内的一个代表性不足的重点领域一直是康复科学和工程以及辅助设备。NSF的一般和年龄相关残疾工程（GARDE）计划（代码5342）的25，000美元的预算请求是为了帮助纠正这一点。所要求的预算的大部分将用于组织和进行我们有史以来第一次以学生为基础的设计比赛，我们希望这将成为一个年度活动。这个SDC的重点将是康复科学和工程。我们还将利用所要求的预算来加强SBC计划，举办以康复为重点的研讨会和全体演讲者。智力优势：SBC是一个极高质量的科学和智力刺激的跨学科会议。这是生物工程的首次会议，重点是生物力学工程。该会议汇集了不同的生物工程社区，包括细胞和分子工程，组织工程，心血管工程等，它是由几个著名的生物工程相关学会共同主办。本次会议所要求的资金是为了增加和提高学生与会者的参与，以帮助确保我们领域的未来。在2011年SBC的全体讲座将突出一位杰出的演讲者与所有与会者相关的讲座，特别是对学生与会者的启发。罗杰·奎因博士（凯斯西储大学）将演讲自然启发的机器人和机制的设计，以执行任务，以更好地帮助残疾人。Elazer Edelman博士（麻省理工学院和哈佛大学）将从临床科学家的角度发表关于血管生物技术的演讲。2011年SBC将举办六场研讨会，一场“大挑战”活动和我们通常的三场颁奖演讲。在2009年和2010年成功举办的类似活动的基础上，将举办预测体内膝关节载荷的大挑战比赛。本次比赛的目的是通过使用从实际患者中收集的测力膝关节植入物的数据，严格评估步态期间膝关节的肌肉力量估计，从而推进整个肌肉骨骼建模和下肢辅助设备领域。参赛者将获得关键的生物力学数据，并被要求使用他们独特的计算模型来预测膝关节接触力，并将其与测量值进行比较。研讨会将包括“支援残疾人士研究的新领域”、“支援残疾人士研究的资助前景”、“生物工程师的导师”、“组织工程学”、“360度骨科研究？“和“机械循环支持”。最后，三个部门奖项的获奖者将分别在早期、中期和晚期进行激励性的演讲，以突出三个不同的职业水平。学生和年轻的专业与会者特别受益于这些获奖者的演讲。更广泛的影响：除了本次会议将对主流生物工程社区产生直接影响外，它还将发挥重要的交叉作用。我们希望有生物工程师，来自其他学科的工程师，细胞/分子生物学家，生物化学家，生物药理学家和其他科学家参加会议。重要的是，我们预计超过50%的与会者将是学生和其他实习生（博士后）。本次会议对康复和辅助设备的重点加强将授权一个床？它是世界上最小的技术委员会，预计将通过改善这一领域专业人员之间的互动产生持久的影响，随着世界人口老龄化，这一领域的重要性日益增加。

PI: Vorp, David A.Proposal Number: 1126228The Summer Bioengineering Conference (SBC) is a high quality, multidisciplinary annual biomedical engineering event sponsored by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers-Bioengineering Division (BED). The 2011 SBC will be held June 22-26 in Farmington, PA, at the Nemacolin Woodlands Resort. A hallmark of this meeting is the interaction and true integration of rigorous engineering principles and biologic concepts. However, an underrepresented focus area at the SBC over the years, and indeed within the BED, has been rehabilitation science and engineering, and assistive devices. The budget request of $25,000 to the General and Age Related Disabilities Engineering (GARDE) Program (Code 5342) of the NSF is to aid in correcting this. The majority of the requested budget will be used to organize and conduct our first-ever student-based design competition, which we hope will become an annual event. The focus of this SDC will be rehabilitation science and engineering. We will also utilize the requested budget to enhancing the SBC program with rehabilitation-focused workshops and a plenary speaker.Intellectual Merit: The SBC is an extremely high quality scientific and intellectually stimulating interdisciplinary meeting. It is the premiere meeting for bioengineering with a focus on biomechanical engineering. The conference brings together the different bioengineering communities including cell and molecular engineering, tissue engineering, cardiovascular engineering, etc. It is co-sponsored by several prestigious bioengineering related societies. The requested funding for this meeting is to increase and enhance the participation of student attendees, to help ensure the future of our field.Plenary lectures at the 2011 SBC will highlight an outstanding speaker with lectures relevant for all attendees, and especially inspiring for student attendees. Dr. Roger Quinn (Case Western Reserve University) will lecture on nature-inspired design of robots and mechanisms to perform tasks to better assist people with disabilities. Dr. Elazer Edelman (MIT and Harvard) will deliver a lecture on vascular biotechnology from a clinician-scientist's perspective.Six workshops, one "Grand Challenge" event and our usual three award lectures will be held at the 2011 SBC. The Grand Challenge Competition to Predict Knee Loads in Vivo will build on successful similar events held in both 2009 and 2010. The aim of this competition is to advance the entire field of musculoskeletal modeling and lower-extremity assist devices by critically evaluating muscle force estimates at the knee during gait using data collected from an actual patient with a force-measuring knee implant. Competitors will be given access to key biomechanical data and asked to use their unique computational models to predict knee contact forces which will be compared to those that are measured. Workshops to be held will include "Frontiers in Research to Aid People with Disabilities", "Funding Landscape in Research to Aid People with Disabilities", "Mentoring of and for Bioengineers", "Gradients in Tissue Engineering", "360 Degree View in Orthopedics Research?" and "Mechanical Circulatory Support". Finally, stimulating lectures will be given by the winners of the three Divisional awards " YC Fung Award, Van Mow Medal, HR Lissner Award - to highlight three different career levels " early, mid and late, respectively. Student and young professional attendees particularly benefit from hearing from these award winners.Broader Impact: In addition to the direct impact this conference will have on the mainstream bioengineering community, it will serve an important cross-fertilization role. We expect to have bioengineers, engineers from other disciplines, cell/molecular biologists, biochemists, biophysicists, and other scientists participating in the meeting. Importantly, we expect that more than 50% of the attendees will be students and other trainees (post-docs). The enhanced focus of this meeting on rehabilitation and assistive devices will empower one of the BED?s smallest technical committees and is expected to have a lasting impact by improving interactions among professionals in this area, which is growing in importance as the World's population ages.