2013 Undergraduate Design Project Competition in Rehabilitation and Assistive Devices and Travel Support for Attendees with a Disability, June 26-29, 2013, in Sunriver, Oregon

主要研究者：Maletsky，Lorin提案编号：1322657美国机械工程师学会生物工程部（BED）主办了一年一度的夏季生物工程会议（SBC）。2013年SBC将于2013年6月26日至29日在俄勒冈州桑里弗的桑里弗度假村举行，这将是本次会议的第15期。NSF的这一请求是为2013年康复和辅助设备本科生设计项目竞赛提供支持，并为残疾人参与者和与会者提供旅行支持。比赛的主要目标是让更多的学生了解康复需求，支持这一领域的项目，并帮助培养这一领域未来的研究人员和工程师。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，以推进这些生物工程未来领导者的教育和职业抱负。为了让残疾人士更方便地参加会议，我们还为这些人士提供旅行奖励，并将根据需要在会议期间提供适当的住宿。智力优势：设计项目经过一系列标准的严格审查，项目需要充分发展，才能被考虑进入前六名决赛。对于会议的决赛演讲，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。参加会议的决赛团队成员也将能够参加一个非常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。会议将重点讨论生物固体力学、生物流体力学、细胞和分子力学、功能组织工程、生物医学设备设计和修复、生物传热传质和生物工程教育等问题。特别是，今年我们选择了翻译研究作为我们的主题。我们选择的全体演讲者，研讨会和重点会议将有助于告知，教育和激励我们的与会者关于翻译他们的技术的重要性和途径。利斯纳奖和Mow奖的获奖者以及冯扬研究者奖将进行科学演讲。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一次会议，否则他们可能没有机会参加国际研究会议。除了对主流生物工程界的直接影响外，这次会议还发挥了重要的交叉作用。我们将有生物工程师，来自其他学科的工程师，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会议。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。最重要的是，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。通过载有技术会议记录的光盘和会议网站，会议上介绍的信息将提供给多个社会和广大公众。

PI: Maletsky, LorinProposal Number: 1322657The Bioengineering Division (BED) of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers hosts the annual Summer Bioengineering Conference (SBC). The 2013 SBC, to be held June 26-29, 2013 at the Sunriver Resort in Sunriver, Oregon, will be the 15th installment of this conference. This request to NSF is to provide support for the 2013 Undergraduate Design Project Competition in Rehabilitation and Assistive Devices and travel support for participants and attendees with disabilities. 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 area. 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. To make the conference more accessible for people with disabilities, we are also offering a travel award for these individuals and will make appropriate accommodations at the conference as needed.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. The main topics to be highlighted at the conference include biosolid mechanics, bio-fluid mechanics, cellular and molecular mechanics, functional tissue engineering, biomedical device design and rehabilitation, bio-heat and mass transfer, and bioengineering education. In particular, this year we have chosen as our theme, Translational Research. Our selections of the plenary speaker, workshops, and highlighted sessions will serve to inform, educate and inspire our attendees about the importance of and pathways for translating their technologies. 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.