Conference: 2021 AHMB MINDS Conference Grant

该奖项将资助由Alpha Eta Mu Beta国家生物医学工程荣誉协会组织的第七届年度MINDS（创新设计解决方案指导）研讨会。该研讨会将于10月6日至9日与BMES 2021年会平行举行。这将使学生选择的MINDS学者计划也参加BMES年会。MINDS奖学金计划是一种创新的方法，为学生提供了与全国各地的同行和导师合作和交流的机会，为期5个月，同时培养必要的工程设计技能，包括课程项目中通常不强调的三个关键因素。三个关键考虑因素是（1）商业化的市场考虑因素（未满足的需求、市场补偿潜力的大小等），(2)（3）评估知识产权保护的前景。第七届MINDS学者计划将专注于解决医疗保健问题的生物医学技术的发展，同时考虑最终用户的需求，如残疾人。该计划从最初的研讨会开始，学生将在那里与来自美国其他大学的团队成员和导师见面。然后，团队选择一个中心设计理念，并在随后的5个月内进行开发。然后，学生将与他们的团队和导师一起开发设计解决方案，考虑市场评估，知识产权问题和监管等问题。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。团队将培养的协作和远距离沟通技能将使他们更好地在越来越依赖远程设施和客户之间沟通的环境中工作。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非技术方面的丰富经验，而这些经验是设计成功的关键：市场潜力、知识产权和监管。该计划将为通过美国各地的竞争过程选择的学生提供与医疗系统实际设计过程相关的关键经验。它还将为学生提供在地理上分开的团队中工作的重要经验，并与来自不同背景的同行合作，这两者都受到行业的高度重视。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值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 7th annual MINDS (Mentoring for Innovative Design Solutions) Workshop organized by Alpha Eta Mu Beta National Biomedical Engineering Honors Society. The workshop will be held virtually from October 6-9 in parallel with the BMES 2021 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 7th MINDS Scholar Program will focus on the development of biomedical technologies that solve health care problems while considering end-user needs such as people with disabilities. The program begins with an initial workshop where students will virtually 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 then work with their teams and mentors to develop a design solution that considers issues such as market evaluation, intellectual property issues, and regulation. Teams will be encouraged to submit their designs to various design contests, investment opportunities, and grant programs. The collaborative and long-distance communication skills that the team will develop 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 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.