2014 Summer Bioengineering Conference/World Congress of Biomechanics - Rehabilitation Engineering in Boston, Massachusetts on July 6-11, 2014.

PI：Grimm，MicheleProposal编号：1417102本提案寻求对2014年夏季生物工程会议(SBC)的支持，该会议由美国机械工程师协会(ASME)生物工程部(BED)主办。今年，SBC将与7月6日至11日在马萨诸塞州波士顿举行的第七届世界生物力学大会(WCB)同时举行。为NSF申请50,200美元的预算(GARDE为28,760美元，BME为21,440美元)有三个主要目的：通过降低学生注册费并为36名参加学生论文竞赛的博士提供免费的学生注册，帮助增加学生出席会议和参与会议；为成功的本科生设计竞赛提供第4年的支持；以及支持关于神经功能故障分析和增强修复的特别研讨会。会议形式将为20个平行的口头陈述会议、3个海报会议和11个全体会议。以学生为中心的活动将包括一次学生论文比赛，包括口头和海报演示，以及两项设计和计算比赛。参加博士论文竞赛、本科生设计和计算竞赛的决赛选手将以平行的口头形式介绍他们的作品。所有技术演示文稿将附有400字的摘要，并以数字格式汇编，分发给所有注册人。SBC和WCB的主要目的一直是，并将继续是，促进广泛的生物工程领域的最先进的研究、合作和科学论述，重点是生物机械工程，包括分子到组织和生物体水平的方法。这次会议突出了学生，促进了他们的教育进步，并进一步促进了他们的职业生涯，使他们成为未来生物工程领域的领导者。智力上的优点：SBC和WCB是极高质量和智力刺激的跨学科科学会议。它们分别是生物机械工程在北美和国际上的首次会议。在这次联合会议中，Bed确保了SBC的许多传统功能。两项挑战，本科生设计大赛和预测膝关节负荷的大挑战，将突出学生在工程设计和建模方面的成就，并将通过同时鼓励竞争和合作迅速推进该领域。ASME赞助的学生论文大赛将突出下一代生物医学工程师的研究。BED的获奖者？S早期、中期和终身职业生涯奖将进行科学介绍。广泛的影响：这次会议除了对主流生物工程界产生直接影响外，还具有重要的交叉影响作用。出席者包括生物工程师、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。以这种方式，这次会议将产生比仅仅由生物力学社区参加的更广泛的影响。同样重要的是，预计50%的与会者将是学生和博士后研究员。这将对生物工程产生广泛的影响，因为未来的领导者是通过学生论文、设计和计算竞赛以及网络机会培养出来的。通过数字会议记录和会议网站，会议上介绍的信息将向多个社会和广大公众提供。

PI: Grimm, MicheleProposal Number: 1417102This proposal seeks support for the 2014 Summer Bioengineering Conference (SBC) sponsored by the Bioengineering Division (BED) of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). This year, the SBC will be held in conjunction with the 7th World Congress of Biomechanics (WCB) from July 6-11 in Boston, MA. The budget request of $50,200 to the NSF ($28,760 to GARDE, $21,440 to BME and Nano & Biomechanics) has three primary purposes: to help increase student attendance and participation at the conference by reducing student registration fees and providing complimentary student registration to 36 Ph.D. finalists in the Student Paper Competition; to provide a 4th year of support for the successful Undergraduate Design Competition; and to support a special symposium on neural functionality failure analysis and augmented repair. The conference format will be 20 parallel sessions of oral presentations, 3 poster sessions, and 11 plenary sessions. Student focused events will include a Student Paper Competition, with both oral and poster presentations, and 2 design and computation competitions. The finalists for the Ph.D. paper competition, undergraduate design, and computation competition will present their work in parallel oral sessions. All technical presentations will be supported by 400-word abstracts and compiled in a digital format for distribution to all registrants. The primary purpose of the SBC and WCB have been, and continue to be, to promote state-of-the-art research, collaboration, and scientific discourse in the broad field of bioengineering with focus on biomechanical engineering, encompassing molecular to tissue and organism-level approaches. This conference highlights students, promotes advancement in their education and furthers their careers towards becoming future leaders in bioengineering.Intellectual Merit : The SBC and WCB are extremely high quality and intellectually stimulating interdisciplinary scientific meetings. They are, respectively, the premiere meetings for biomechanical engineering in North America and internationally. In this combined meeting, the BED has insured the inclusion of many of the traditional features of the SBC. Two Challenges, the Undergraduate Design Competition and Grand Challenge in Predicting Knee Loads, will highlight student achievements in engineering design and modeling and will rapidly advance the field through simultaneously encouraging competition and collaboration. The ASME-sponsored Student Paper Competition will highlight the research of the next generation of biomedical engineers. The winners of the BED?s Early, Mid, and Lifetime Career Awards will make scientific presentations.Broader Impacts : In addition to the direct impact this conference will have on the mainstream bioengineering community, it serves an important cross-fertilization role. In attendance will be bioengineers, engineers from other disciplines, cell and molecular biologists, biochemists, biophysicists, and other scientists. In that manner, this conference will have a much broader impact than if it were to be attended by just the biomechanics community. As importantly, 50% of the attendees are expected to be students and postdoctoral fellows. This will have a broad impact on bioengineering as future leaders are developed through the student paper, design, and computational competitions as well as networking opportunities. Through the digital proceedings and the conference web site, information presented at the meeting will be available to multiple societies and to the public at large.