UCD BME Translational Design and Innovation Program

描述（由申请人提供）：我们建议开发一个跨学科的设计方案，将通过从需求发现到商业化的翻译产品设计过程的所有步骤，在高级水平培养本科生。这将是一个校园范围内的，综合的，跨学科的经验，涉及来自工程学院，管理研究生院，医学院，兽医学院，技术转让办公室和设计部门的参与者。我们将创建新的课程，以补充现有的工程设计课程，并反映从临床到工程原型，再到商业化的工作流程。在这个序列结束时，学生将准备好销售他们的工作许可或开始自己的业务。新课程包括四分之一的临床轮换，以确定未满足的需求和定义问题，两个季度的教学和指导，通过生物医学设计的业务方面，以及与设计专业的四分之一的合作经验，以开发营销活动。生物医学工程专业（当前= 55）和其他感兴趣的专业的所有学生都有资格参加这些课程。在过去的三年里，我们已经指导了生物医学工程（BME）-机械工程（MAE）联合高级设计团队，并期望从这个主要的最大的外部利益，但我们的目标在5年的项目是招募更多的工程部门参与相关的项目需求。此外，将提供一个新颖的夏季临床轮换/电影实习，向8名进入大四的本科生开放。学生，在团队中工作，将花费6周的临床沉浸，生物医学设备，需求发现的经验，他们必须制作一个视频，捕捉关键的观察/对话，导致未满足的需求的识别。由此产生的视频将被用来提供临床旋转/需求发现的经验，为未来的新生级设计课程。) 公共卫生相关性：拟议的计划描述了一个动手培训计划，生物医学和其他工程专业的学生，教他们所需的所有步骤，以开发用于临床的设备。学生将学习开发人类健康问题的解决方案，并了解从“有想法”的早期阶段到最终为诊所提供成品的途径。这项培训将提供训练有素的工程师，以解决未来的健康问题。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose to develop an interdisciplinary design program that will train undergraduate students at the senior level through all the steps of the translational product design process from needs-finding to commercialization. This will be a campus-wide, integrative, interdisciplinary experience involving participants from the College of Engineering, Graduate School of Management, School of Medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine, Technology Transfer Office, and Design department. We will create new courses that complement existing engineering design courses and which reflect the flow of work from the clinic, to the engineering prototype, to commercialization. At the end of this sequence, students will be poised to market their work for licensing or start their own business. The new courses consist of one quarter of clinical rotations to identify unmet needs and define a problem, two quarters of instruction and mentoring through the business aspects of biomedical design, and a one-quarter collaborative experience with Design majors to develop a marketing campaign. All students in the Biomedical Engineering major (current = 55) and other interested majors are eligible to participate in these courses. For the past three years we have mentored Biomedical Engineering (BME)-Mechanical Engineering (MAE) joint senior design teams, and anticipate the greatest outside interest from this major, but our goal over the 5 yr project is to recruit additional engineering departments to participate as relevant to project needs. In addition, a novel summer clinical rotation/film internship will be offered, open to 8 undergraduates entering their senior year. The students, working in teams, will spend 6 weeks in a clinical immersion, biomedical device, needs-finding experience for which they must produce a video that captures the key observations/conversations that lead to identification of unmet needs. The resulting videos will be used to supply the clinical rotation/needs-finding experience for a future frosh-level design course. ) PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The proposed program describes a hands-on training program for biomedical and other engineering students that teaches them about all the steps required to develop devices for use in the clinic. The students will learn to develop solutions to problems in human health, and understand the pathway that leads from the early phase of "having an idea" to finally offering a finished product for the clinic. This training will provide well-trained engineers to tackle the health problems of the future.