2012 Undergraduate Design Project Competition in Rehabilitation and Assistive Devices

PI: Maletsky， lorin提案号：1219600美国机械工程师学会生物工程系（BED）主办一年一度的夏季生物工程会议（SBC）。2012年SBC将于2012年6月20日至23日在波多黎各法哈多的征服者度假村举行，这将是该会议的第14期。向NSF申请的预算是为2012年康复和辅助设备本科设计项目竞赛提供支持，并举办一个研讨会，帮助研究人员将他们的康复理念转化为市场。比赛的主要目的是让更多的学生了解康复的需要和支持这方面的项目，并帮助培养未来的研究人员和工程师。拨款亦将资助在会议上介绍的一个讲习班，讲解如何将学生项目发展出来的康复概念转化为可行的市场产品。所有技术报告将是两页的扩展摘要，并汇编成CD格式，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新研究，合作和科学讨论，重点是包括分子到组织和生物体水平方法的尖端生物力学。本次会议强调并鼓励学生参与，以促进这些未来生物工程领导者的教育和职业抱负。智力价值：设计项目使用一系列标准进行严格审查，项目需要充分发展才能进入前六名决赛。对于会议上的决赛演讲，每个团队将向观众展示他们的设计，并且必须能够回答问题。参加会议的入围团队成员还将能够参加一场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。其中一个讲习班名为“将辅助器具推向市场”，将重点讨论如何将康复项目转化为可销售的产品。此外，还有五个与生物工程相关的重要科学和教育主题的研讨会：血液动力学的4D相对比MRI，无创成像分层固体力学，生物工程终身教职的提示，细胞与组织工程教学，以及生物运输教育。我们还将有两个额外的挑战：预测膝关节负荷的大挑战和计算流体动力学挑战。挑战环节强调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协作来快速推进该领域。利斯纳奖章和莫奖章及冯氏青年研究员奖得主将作科学报告。更广泛的影响：康复设计比赛将使来自全国各地的学生参加会议，否则他们可能没有机会参加国际研究会议。本次会议除了对主流生物工程界产生直接影响外，还具有重要的交叉受精作用。我们将邀请生物工程师、其他学科的工程师、细胞和分子生物学家、生物化学家、生物物理学家和其他科学家参加会议。以这种方式，这次会议将产生更广泛的影响，如果它只是由生物力学社区参加。最重要的是，我们预计超过50%的与会者将是学生和博士后。这将对当前和未来产生广泛的影响，因为这些学生将通过参加会议以及通过全体发言人、讲习班和挑战提出的材料受益。通过载有技术会议记录的光盘和会议网站，将向多个学会和广大公众提供会议上介绍的信息。

PI: Maletsky, LorinProposal Number: 1219600 The 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, 2012 at the el Conquistador Resort in Fajardo, Puerto Rico, will be the 14th installment of this conference. The budget request to NSF is to provide support for the 2012 Undergraduate Design Project Competition in Rehabilitation and Assistive Devices and a workshop to help researchers translate their rehabilitation ideas to market. The primary objectives of the competition are to expose more students to rehabilitation needs and support projects in this area as well as to help develop future researchers and engineers in this. Funding will also support a workshop to be presented at the meeting which will explain how to convert concepts in rehabilitation developed from student projects into viable market products. 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 design projects are rigorously reviewed using a series of criteria and projects need to be sufficiently developed to be considered in one of the top six finalists. For the finalist presentations at the conference, each team will present their design to the audience and must be able to answer questions. The finalist team members who attend the conference will also be able to participate in an extremely high quality scientific and intellectually stimulating interdisciplinary meeting. It is the premiere meeting for bioengineering with a focus on biomechanical engineering. One of the workshops, Bringing Assistive Devices to Market, will highlight the translation of rehabilitation projects to marketable products. Five other workshops with significant scientific and educational topics in bioengineering will also be presented: 4D Phase Contrast MRI for Hemodynamics, Solid Mechanics over Hierarchical Scales by Noninvasive Imaging, Tips for Tenure in Bioengineering, Teaching Cell & Tissue Engineering, and Biotransport Education. We will also have two additional Challenges: the 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. The winners of the Lissner and Mow Medals and the Fung Young Investigator Award will make scientific presentations. Broader Impact: The rehabilitation design competition will bring students from across the country to a meeting who might otherwise not have an opportunity to attend an international research conference. In addition to the direct impact this conference will have on the mainstream bioengineering community, it serves an important cross-fertilization role. We will have in attendance bioengineers, engineers from other disciplines, cell and molecular biologists, biochemists, biophysicists, and other scientists participating in the meeting. In that manner, this conference will have a much broader impact than if it were to be attended by just the biomechanics community. Most importantly, we expect that more than 50% of the attendees will be students and postdoctoral fellows. 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. Through the CD containing technical proceedings and conference web site, information presented at the meeting will be available to multiple societies and to the public at large.