2018 AHMB MINDS Conference Grant

该奖项将资助由国家生物医学工程荣誉学会Alpha Eta Mu Beta组织的2018 Minds(创新设计解决方案指导)研讨会。研讨会将于10月17日至20日在佐治亚州亚特兰大举行，与BMES 2018年年会同时举行。这将允许被选入思想学者计划的学生也参加BMES年会。Minds学者计划是一种创新的方法，为学生提供为期5个月的与全国各地的同行和导师合作和建立网络的机会，同时培养必要的工程设计技能，包括三个通常不会在课程项目中强调的关键考虑因素。三个关键考虑是：(1)商业化的市场考虑(未满足的需求、市场补偿潜力的大小等)，(2)监管战略，以及(3)评估知识产权保护的前景。该项目从最初的研讨会开始，学生们在那里会见来自美国其他大学的团队成员和导师。然后，团队选择一个中心设计想法，将在接下来的5个月内开发出来。学生将通过竞争过程进行挑选，大三本科生优先考虑。然后，学生将与他们的团队和导师合作，开发考虑到市场评估、知识产权问题和法规等问题的设计解决方案。主题专家将在这5个月的设计期内为团队提供支持。将鼓励团队将他们的设计提交给各种设计竞赛、投资机会和赠款计划。该计划将培养一批核心工程师，他们将更好地理解在尝试设计设备之前考虑人类需求的重要性，他们将更有可能参与各种改善人类状况的活动。此外，参与者将学习如何评估人类的需求，并将有效地使用关键的设计考虑因素，这些因素对于成功地将想法转化为市场至关重要，从而使它们能够真正帮助人们。此外，他们在该项目中培养的协作和远程通信技能将使他们能够更好地在越来越依赖远程设施和客户之间通信的环境中工作。美国的大多数设计课程，特别是生物医学工程课程，没有足够的时间为学生提供对设计成功至关重要的非技术方面的丰富经验：市场潜力、知识产权和法规。该项目将为来自美国各地的三名学生组成的七个团队提供与现实世界医疗系统设计过程相关的关键经验。它还将为学生提供在不同地理位置的团队中工作的重要经验，以及与来自不同背景的同龄人一起工作的经验，这两者都受到业界的高度重视。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award will fund the 2018 MINDS (Mentoring for Innovative Design Solutions) Workshop organized by Alpha Eta Mu Beta, the National Biomedical Engineering Honors Society. The workshop will be held October 17-20 in Atlanta, GA, in parallel with the BMES 2018 Annual Meeting. This will allow the students selected for the MINDS Scholar Program to also participate in the BMES Annual Meeting. The MINDS Scholar Program is an innovative approach that provides students with the opportunity to collaborate and network with peers and mentors across the country for a 5-month period, while building necessary engineering design skills, including three key considerations that are not usually stressed in coursework projects. The three key considerations are: (1) market considerations for commercialization (unmet need, size of market reimbursement potential, etc.), (2) regulatory strategy, and (3) evaluating prospects for intellectual property protection. The program begins with an initial workshop where students meet their team members, drawn from other universities across the US, and mentors. The team then selects a central design idea that will be developed over the subsequent 5 months. Students will be selected through a competitive process, with junior undergraduates preferred. Students will then work with their teams and mentors to develop a design solution that takes into account issues such as market evaluation, intellectual property issues, and regulation. Subject matter experts will provide support to the teams during this 5 month design period. Teams will be encouraged to submit their designs to various design contests, investment opportunities, and grant programs. This program will develop a core group of engineers who will better understand the importance of considering human needs before attempting to design devices, and who will be more likely to engage in a variety of activities that improve the human condition. Moreover, the participants will learn how to assess human needs and will effectively use the key design considerations that are of paramount importance for successful translation of ideas to the marketplace so that they can truly help people. Additionally, the collaborative and long-distance communication skills that they develop in this project will better equip them to work in an environment that is increasingly dependent on communication between distant facilities and customers. The majority of design courses in the US, particularly in biomedical engineering programs, do not have sufficient time to provide students with a strong experience in the non-technical aspects that are key to design success: market potential, intellectual property, and regulation. This program will provide seven teams of three students, selected through a competitive process from across the US, with key experience related to real world design processes for medical systems. It will also provide students with significant experience in working on a geographically separated team and with peers from varied backgrounds, both of which are strongly valued by industry.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.