2019 AHMB MINDS Conference Grant

由美国国家生物医学工程荣誉学会Alpha Eta Mu Beta组织的2019年MINDS（创新设计解决方案指导）研讨会将于2019年10月17日至20日在宾夕法尼亚州费城与生物医学工程学会（BMES）年会同时举行。该奖项将支持学生前往MINDS研讨会和BMES年会。MINDS学者计划为学生提供为期5个月的机会，与来自全国各地的同行和导师进行合作和交流，同时培养必要的工程设计技能。学生还将学习课程项目中通常不强调的设计考虑因素：(1)商业化的市场考虑，(2)监管策略，(3)评估知识产权保护的前景。学生将通过竞争选拔，大三本科生优先。然后，学生将与他们的团队和导师一起开发设计解决方案，主题专家将在这五个月的设计期间为团队提供支持。团队将被鼓励提交他们的设计参加各种设计竞赛、投资机会和资助计划。该项目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。此外，学生将在这个项目中培养的协作和远程沟通技能将更好地使他们在一个越来越依赖于远程设备和客户之间沟通的环境中工作。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。

The 2019 MINDS (Mentoring for Innovative Design Solutions) Workshop organized by Alpha Eta Mu Beta, the National Biomedical Engineering Honors Society, will be held in parallel with the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting on October 17-20, 2019 in Philadelphia, PA. This award will support student travel to the MINDS Workshop and BMES Annual Meeting. The MINDS Scholar Program provides students with the opportunity to collaborate and network with peers and mentors from across the country for a 5-month period, while building necessary engineering design skills. The students would also learn about design considerations that are not usually stressed in coursework projects: (1) market considerations for commercialization, (2) regulatory strategy, and (3) evaluating prospects for intellectual property protection. 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, and subject matter experts will provide support to the teams during this five-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. Additionally, the collaborative and long-distance communication skills that students will develop in this project will better equip them to work in an environment that is increasingly dependent on communication between distant facilities and customers.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.