Multidisciplinary Team-Based Design Education to Create Biomedical Engineering In

描述(由申请人提供)：行业调查和学术研究证实，即将毕业的工程师没有为开发满足客户需求的新产品所需的工作类型做好充分准备。马奎特大学生物医学工程系正在提议对其现有的本科设计课程进行具体增强，以改善生物医学工程毕业生设计、开发和商业化将显著影响公众健康的新医疗器械和技术的准备。这些改进将扩大和加强与威斯康星医学院、密尔沃基艺术与设计学院、马凯特大学牙科学院和马奎特大学内其他学院的现有合作。这个项目的目标是帮助学生进一步发展1)在多学科项目团队中与不同人员合作所需的人际交往和沟通技能，2)了解医疗器械设计的经济、法律、法规、环境和文化/社会制约因素，3)与医疗和牙科专业人员合作的能力，以确定未满足的临床需求和新产品开发的机会8。拟议的增强最终将导致对整个产品开发过程的更好理解，以及将新设备和技术从实验室转化到床边的能力。该项目的具体目标包括：1)增加所有生物医学工程专业学生扩展其临床环境和用户需求知识的机会，并发展问题识别和需求发现技能；2)改善学生管理项目的准备，以便通过基于多学科团队的项目体验，成功地将他们的设计思想转化和商业化；3)扩大学生对整个产品开发过程的知识和经验；4)扩大学生对知识产权、产品责任、设计标准的使用、法规要求和其他设计问题和约束的知识；以及5)为学生提供更多机会来开发开放式问题的设计解决方案，这些解决方案可以显著改善服务不足人群的医疗保健，或帮助单个需求未得到满足的客户，向学生展示他们作为生物医学工程师的工作如何直接改善公共健康和造福他人的生活。拟议项目的目标将通过临床浸入式活动、课程改革(包括新的教学模块)和增加项目团队的多学科性质来实现。生物医学工程师与牙科学校教职员工和工业设计学生之间的合作是拟议项目的一个创新和独特的方面。此外，本科水平的临床观察机会，以及参与高级设计课程的项目团队的高度多学科性质，使拟议的课程具有独特性。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Industry surveys and academic studies confirm that graduating engineers are inadequately prepared for the type of work required to develop new products that meet customer needs. The Department of Biomedical Engineering at Marquette University is proposing specific enhancements to its existing undergraduate design curriculum to improve the preparation of biomedical engineering graduates to design, develop, and commercialize new medical devices and technologies that will significantly impact public health. These enhancements will expand and build upon existing collaborations with the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, the Marquette University School of Dentistry, and other colleges within Marquette University. The goal of this project is to help students further develop 1) the interpersonal and communication skills needed to work with diverse personnel within multidisciplinary project teams, 2) an understanding of the economic, legal, regulatory, environmental, and cultural/social constraints of medical device design, and 3) the ability to work with medical and dental professionals to identify unmet clinical needs and opportunities for new product development8. The proposed enhancements will ultimately result in a better understanding of the entire product development process and an ability to translate new devices and technologies from the laboratory to the bedside. Specific aims of this project include 1) increasing opportunities for all biomedical engineering students to expand their knowledge of the clinical environment and user needs, and develop problem identification and needs finding skills, 2) improving the preparation of students to manage projects to successfully translate and commercialize their design ideas through multidisciplinary team-based project experiences, 3) expanding students' knowledge of and experience with the entire product development process, 4) expanding students' knowledge of intellectual property, product liability, the use of standards in design, regulatory requirements, and other design issues and constraints, and 5) providing students with more opportunities to develop design solutions to open-ended problems that can significantly improve health care in underserved populations or help a single client with unmet needs to show students how their work as biomedical engineers can directly improve public health and benefit the lives of others. Goals of the proposed project will be achieved through clinical immersion activities, curricular changes including new teaching modules, and increasing the multidisciplinary nature of project teams. Collaborations between biomedical engineers and dental school faculty and industrial design students are an innovative, unique aspect of the proposed program. In addition, the clinical observation opportunities available at the undergraduate level and the highly multidisciplinary nature of the project teams involved in the senior design course makes the proposed program unique.