IRES Track 1: Physical State Estimation for Control Coordination and Behavior Monitoring

马奎特大学（MU）和意大利热那亚大学（UNIGE）将参加一项国际学生交流活动，以促进对全球医疗保健问题的理解，并培养开发生物医学工程解决方案所需的文化能力，以改善世界各地个人的健康状况。这个IRES项目的目标是增加对运动行为和需要昂贵医疗服务的个人健康状况之间关系的理解，并开发技术解决方案，可以提高生活质量，同时降低医疗成本。在他们的参与中，本科生和研究生将学习重要的研究技能，发现全球医疗保健问题的应用解决方案，并发展国际关系。学生项目的设计是与来自两所大学的教师导师一起进行的。这些项目完成后，可以开发新技术用于医疗保健行业。因此，这个国际学生研究经验（IRES）项目促进了科学的进步，促进了国家健康，并有助于发展更具全球竞争力的科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）劳动力，努力吸引妇女，第一代和其他代表性不足的少数民族人口。这些研究项目将重点关注多发性硬化症、中风和/或老年人的运动控制、运动协调和整体运动活动。研究项目将侧重于开发旨在减少多发性硬化症患者震颤的技术；提高中风患者的手灵巧度；并监测日常生活活动，以评估/分类有风险的老年人。学生小组将在MU教师的指导下准备他们的研究项目，然后他们将前往UNIGE收集数据并在UNIGE合作教师的指导下开始数据分析。在UNIGE期间，他们还将沉浸在意大利文化以及生物医学和计算机工程领域，以提高他们的文化能力。然后，学生们将回到MU完成分析，并将他们的结果传播给科学家和公众。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Marquette University (MU) and the University of Genoa, Italy (UNIGE) will participate in an international student exchange to foster understanding of global healthcare issues and to cultivate the cultural competence required to develop biomedical engineering solutions to improve the health status of individuals around the world. The goals of this IRES project are to increase understanding of the relationships between motor behavior and the health status of individuals at risk of requiring costly healthcare services, and to develop technological solutions that can enhance the quality of life while also reducing medical costs. During their involvement, undergraduate and graduate students will learn important research skills, discover applied solutions for global healthcare problems, and develop international relationships. Student projects are designed to be performed in conjunction with faculty mentors from both universities. Upon completion of those projects, new technologies can be developed for application in the healthcare industry. As such, this International Research Experience for Students (IRES) project promotes the progress of science, advances the national health, and contributes to the development of a more globally competitive Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) workforce, with efforts to attract women, first-generation, and other underrepresented minority populations. The research projects will focus on motor control, motor coordination and overall motor activity in individuals afflicted with Multiple Sclerosis, stroke, and/or in the elderly population. Research projects will focus on developing technology aimed towards reducing tremor in those with Multiple Sclerosis; improving manual dexterity in those afflicted with stroke; and monitoring activities of daily living in order to assess/classify at-risk older adults. Student groups will prepare their research project under the guidance of MU faculty, they will then travel to UNIGE to collect data and begin data analysis under the mentorship of the collaborating UNIGE faculty. While at UNIGE they will also be immersed in Italian culture and the biomedical and computer engineering field so as to increase their cultural competence. Students will then return to MU to complete analysis and disseminate their results to scientists and the general community.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.