Third Biomedical Engineering Education Summit Meeting

第三届生物医学工程高峰会议将于2008年6月召开，这将是自2005年以来第一次以生物医学工程教育为主题的会议。惠特克基金会完全支持前两届峰会，不再作为赞助商，生物医学工程和生物工程主席委员会（CoC）和美国工程教育学会（ASEE BED）的生物医学工程部共同主办第三届峰会。这次会议被设计成一个工作会议，以一种在任何其他会议上都不可能实现的方式，促进本科阶段生物医学工程教育的进展。出席人数有限，但将向美国所有当前和新兴的生物医学工程和生物工程学术项目开放（每个机构两人），并将包括来自工业界和学习科学领域的代表。将特别鼓励少数族裔服务机构参加，并邀请选定的国际大学参加。会议的目标是：1)分享课程和教学法的最佳实践；2)培养和扩大一个社区，在这个社区中，全国和世界各地的相关人士相互了解他们的教育工作；3)在生物医学工程教育而不是研究为中心的环境中交流关于课程的想法；4)利用从更成熟的项目中获得的知识帮助新项目，并更新现有项目的想法。5)提高少数民族服务机构将生物医学工程作为专业的可能性，6)讨论核心课程和专业领域，使生物医学工程学生为工业，医学或研究生学习做好最好的准备。

DESCRIPTION (provided by the applicant): The Third Biomedical Engineering Summit Meeting will be held in June 2008 and will be the first conference focusing on biomedical engineering education since 2005. The Whitaker Foundation, which completely supported the first two summits, is no longer available as a sponsor, and the Council of Chairs of Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering (CoC) and the Biomedical Engineering Division of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE BED) are cosponsoring this third summit. The conference is designed as a working meeting to foster progress in biomedical engineering education at the undergraduate level in a way that is not possible at any other meeting. Attendance will be limited, but will be open to all current and emerging biomedical engineering and bioengineering academic programs in the US (two individuals per institution), and will include representatives from industry and the field of learning science. Minority serving institutions will be particularly encouraged to attend, and selected international universities will also be invited. The conference objectives are to 1) share best practices in curriculum and pedagogy, 2) nurture and expand a community in which relevant individuals across the country and around the world know each other and their educational work, 3) exchange ideas about curriculum in a setting where biomedical engineering education rather than research takes center stage, 4) assist newer programs using knowledge gained by more mature programs, and refresh the ideas of established programs, 5) enhance the likelihood that minority serving institutions will adopt biomedical engineering as a major, and 6) discuss the core curricula and areas of specialization that will enable biomedical engineering students to best prepare for industry, medicine, or graduate study. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE STATEMENT (provided by applicant): Biomedical engineers are an important part of the workforce that contributes to advances in the increasingly technological field of healthcare in the US and abroad. This conference is designed to foster progress in biomedical engineering education at the undergraduate level. The conference will bring together individuals from academia and industry to discuss the ways in which students can be best prepared with the content knowledge, skills and attitudes to be innovative and adaptive in biomedical engineering careers.