IRES: US-Denmark Collaboration to Create Next Generation Biosensors

美国-丹麦合作开发下一代生物传感器迫切需要开发快速简便的检测设备，以检测从癌症到疟疾等各种疾病。这不仅有助于诊断疾病，还有助于监测治疗情况，并在需要时迅速改变治疗方案。解决这些挑战的更好方法是与一个由科学家和工程师组成的跨学科团队合作。如果团队不仅在训练上多样化，而且在文化上也多样化，那么他们可能会想出更好的解决方案。出于这个原因，我们将招收各种各样的学生，包括密歇根理工学院的研究生、密歇根理工学院和其他大学的本科生以及社区学院的学生，让他们在丹麦暑期工作。奥胡斯大学是致力于未来健康诊断的世界级研究机构。理工科学生将与一名通信专业的学生一起体验这一体验。该学生将协助技术系学生制作视频，描述他们在实验室的经验和他们参与的项目。这是科学教育教学方式的一个转变。这个项目将打破工程师和科学家只对彼此说话的循环，并帮助打开沟通渠道，向公众展示实验室门后面发生的事情。技术专业的学生将从接触技术交流中受益匪浅，而沟通专业的学生将学到更多与技术研究人员合作的知识。最终的产品将是18名训练有素的学生，他们将有更多的机会探索技术职业，同时制作视频，向公众解释他们所进行的研究的重要性。技术专业的学生还将在当地的技术会议上制作和展示海报，以突出所进行的研究。今天好吗?全球卫生挑战需要跨学科知识、国际研究合作和跨文化沟通能力。该项目将通过与密歇根理工大学和丹麦奥胡斯大学的既定合作，为专注于疟疾和癌症早期检测的跨学科学生群体提供国际研究经验。我们的目标是培养科学家和工程师，他们能够创造性地和协作地解决健康诊断和其他领域的未来问题，我们努力增加学生？通过这一国际经验的视角。我们的团队由生物学家、病理学家、机械工程师和化学工程师组成。该项目将探索新的疾病生物标志物，确定生物标志物的临床相关性，并设计新的微设备，以提高新技术的临床应用。在三年的时间里，拟议的夏季国际研究经验将每年为五名不同的科学和工程学生进行为期八周的全球生物传感器研究经验和一名技术通信学生进行记录和传播研究工作做好准备。这个项目的一个独特之处在于包含了一个技术通信专业的学生。这将为学生研究人员提供科学传播方面的教育，这在当前的科学教育中往往是缺乏的，但对美国未来的科学资助和公众关系至关重要。技术传播专业的学生的加入将协同作用地教会科学学生向公众传播科学的困难和重要性。预计所有参与者都将作为更积极的学生回归，并更倾向于新想法和合作。此外，学生将通过海报会议和专业制作的在线视频吸引其他学生，这将为其他人寻求国际研究机会提供动力。

IRES: US-Denmark Collaboration to Create Next Generation BiosensorsThere is a great need for the development of fast and simple detection devices for diseases ranging from cancer to malaria. Not only will this assist in diagnosing diseases, it will also help to monitor treatments and allow for a quick change in treatment options if required. A better way to tackle these challenges is to work with an interdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers. The team will likely develop better solutions if they are not only diverse in training, but also diverse in culture. For this reason, we will take a diverse group of students, ranging from Michigan Tech graduate students, undergraduates from Michigan Tech and other universities, and community college students, and have them work for the summer in Denmark. Aarhus University is a world-class research institution working on health diagnostics for the future. The science and engineering students will be joined in this experience by a communications student. This student will assist the technical students in the creation of videos that describes their experience in the lab and the projects they contributed to. This is a shift is how scientific education is often taught. This project will break the cycle of engineers and scientists only speaking to one another and help open the lines of communication to show the public what is happening behind the laboratory doors. The technical students will greatly benefit from the exposure to technical communication while the communication student will learn more about working with technical researchers. The end product will be 18 highly trained students who will have increased opportunity to explore technical careers while producing videos that explain to the public the importance of the research they conducted. The technical students will also create and present posters at a local technical conference that highlight the research conducted. Today?s global health challenges require interdisciplinary knowledge, international research collaboration, and intercultural communication competencies. This project will provide international research experiences for an interdisciplinary cohort of students focused on early detection of malaria and cancer though an established collaboration with Michigan Tech and Aarhus University in Denmark. The goal is to create scientists and engineers who can creatively and collaboratively solve future problems in health diagnostics and beyond, and we strive to increase the students? perspective through this international experience. Our team consists of a biologist, pathologist, mechanical engineer and chemical engineers. This project will explore new disease biomarkers, determine the clinical relevance of the biomarkers and design new microdevices that will improve clinical adoption of the new technology. Over a three-year period, the proposed summer international research experiences will prepare, annually, a cohort of five diverse science and engineering students to engage in an eight-week global biosensor research experience and one technical communications student to document and disseminate the research efforts. A unique aspect of this project is the inclusion of a technical communications student. This will provide student researchers with an education in scientific communication, which is often lacking in current scientific education, but is extremely important for the future of scientific funding and public rapport in the U.S. The incorporation of a technical communications student will synergistically teach the scientific students the difficulties and importance of scientific communication to the public. It is expected that all the participants will return as more engaged students with an increased propensity for new ideas and collaboration. In addition, the students will engage other students through poster sessions of their experience and professionally produced online videos that will provide the motivation for others to seek out international research opportunities.