2012 Summer Bioengineering Conference, Puerto Rico during June 20-23, 2012

1219397Elliott美国机械工程师协会生物工程部（BED）主办了一年一度的夏季生物工程会议（SBC）。2012年SBC将于6月20日至23日在波多黎各法哈尔多的征服者度假村举行，这将是本次会议的第14期。NSF的25，000美元的预算请求是为了帮助降低学生注册费和教育活动，包括国际知名的全体讲师，教育研讨会和以学生为中心的大挑战。会议的形式将是六个平行的口头报告会议。所有技术演示文稿将是两页的扩展摘要，并以CD格式编辑，分发给所有注册人。本次会议的主要目的是促进生物工程广泛领域的最先进的研究，合作和科学话语，重点是尖端生物力学，包括分子到组织和生物体水平的方法。本次会议强调并鼓励学生参与，以推进这些未来生物工程领导者的教育和职业抱负。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。今年会议的主题是成像的艺术和科学，因为它适用于生物力学工程。医学成像正在迅速成为一种重要的工具，无论是进行基础性的发现，还是将其转化为常规的临床应用。今年，SBC将首次突出成像作为教育和激励与会者考虑在生物力学工程学科中使用和整合成像的一种方式。马克·亨克尔曼博士（多伦多大学儿童医院）将作一次出色的全体会议演讲。Henkelman博士是国际公认的磁共振流动和运动成像的先驱。Henkelman博士的演讲将向我们的观众介绍人类和小动物成像的最新技术及其在生物力学工程研究各个领域的应用。六个研讨会将提出：4D相位对比MRI的血流动力学，固体力学在层次尺度上的非侵入性成像，将辅助设备推向市场，在生物工程，教学细胞组织工程和生物运输教育的任期提示。我们还将有三个挑战：本科设计，预测膝关节负荷的大挑战和计算流体动力学挑战。挑战赛突出学生在工程设计和建模方面的成就，并通过同时鼓励竞争和合作来快速推进该领域。更广泛的影响：除了这次会议将对生物工程界产生直接影响外，它还将发挥重要的交叉作用。预计将有生物工程师、其他学科的工程师、细胞和分子生物学家、生物化学家、生物药理学家和其他科学家参加。以这种方式，这次会议将有一个更广泛的影响，如果它只是由生物力学界参加。会议的技术内容将通过一张光盘和会议网站向多个社会和广大公众提供。重要的是，我们预计超过50%的与会者将是学生和博士后研究人员。这将为当前和未来提供广泛的影响，因为这些学生将通过参加会议并通过全体演讲者，研讨会和挑战提出的材料受益。

1219397ElliottThe Bioengineering Division (BED) of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers hosts the annual Summer Bioengineering Conference (SBC). The 2012 SBC, to be held June 20-23 at the el Conquistador Resort in Fajardo, Puerto Rico, will be the 14th installment of this conference. The budget request of $25,000 to NSF is to aid in reducing student registration fees and for educational activities including an internationally renowned plenary lecturer, educational workshops, and student-focused grand challenges. The conference format will be six parallel sessions of oral presentations. All technical presentations will be two-page extended abstracts and compiled in a CD format, distributed to all registrants. The primary purpose of this conference is to promote state-of-the-art research, collaboration, and scientific discourse in the broad field of bioengineering with a focus on cutting edge biomechanics encompassing molecular to tissue and organism-level approaches. This conference highlights and encourages student participation to advance the education and career aspirations of these future leaders of bioengineering.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 theme of this year's conference is The Art and Science of Imaging as it applies to biomechanical engineering. Medical imaging is fast becoming an essential tool, both for making fundamental discoveries and for translating them to routine clinical use. This year, for the first time, SBC will highlight Imaging as a way to educate and inspire our attendees to consider the use and integration of imaging in the biomechanical engineering disciplines. An outstanding plenary lecture will be given by Dr. Mark Henkelman (University of Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children). Dr. Henkelman is an internationally recognized pioneer in magnetic resonance flow and motion imaging. Dr. Henkelman's lecture will be designed to introduce our audience to the state of the art in human and small animal imaging and its applications to various areas of biomechanical engineering research. Six workshops will be presented: 4D Phase Contrast MRI for Hemodynamics, Solid Mechanics over Hierarchical Scales by Noninvasive Imaging, Bringing Assistive Devices to Market, Tips for Tenure in Bioengineering, Teaching Cell & Tissue Engineering, and Biotransport Education. We will also have three Challenges: Undergraduate Design, Grand Challenge in Predicting Knee Loads, and Computational Fluid Dynamics Challenge. Challenge sessions highlight student achievements in engineering design and modeling and rapidly advance the field through simultaneously encouraging competition and collaboration.Broader Impact: In addition to the direct impact this conference will have on the bioengineering community, it will serve an important cross-fertilization role. It is expected to have bioengineers, engineers from other disciplines, cell and molecular biologists, biochemists, biophysicists, and other scientists participating. In that manner, this conference will have a much broader impact than if it were to be attended by just the biomechanics community. Technical content of the meeting will be available to multiple societies and the public at large via a CD and the conference web site. Importantly, we expect that more than 50% of the attendees will be students and postdoctoral researchers. This will provide a broad impact for the current times as well as for the future, as these students will benefit by participation in the meeting and through the material presented by the plenary speakers, workshops, and challenges.