Integrated Engineering and Rehabilitation Training

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案描述了我们的“综合工程和康复培训”计划，产生生物医学博士学位。毕业生谁结合联合收割机在神经工程（生物医学工程领域）的最先进的专业知识与临床康复的实践和挑战的真正欣赏。该计划以凯斯西储大学生物医学工程系为中心，但也包括我们当地几个医疗中心的大力参与。我们的计划是专门专注于博士前培训，自1999年以来，我们已经培养了37名学生。我们要求在五年内每年为总共8个培训职位提供资金。学员通常由该计划资助两年，因此我们预计将培养20名BME博士。学生在五年内。学员进入工程或密切相关的学科（例如，物理学）。他们满足BME博士的严格要求。我们的T32计划通过高度协作和跨学科的研究项目，临床沉浸式体验以及访问研讨会演讲者（包括期刊俱乐部）的独特机会来增加价值。在接下来的5年里，我们将为神经工程师增加一门正式的职业发展课程，包括一系列关于多样性和正式多样性培训的研讨会，并成立一个外部咨询委员会，由康复和神经工程的学术领袖，刺激和康复商业空间的大小公司的代表，执业神经/康复医生和学生多样性专业人员组成。 的具体目标 我们的培训计划是：（1）为我们的学员在康复和神经工程方面的生产性职业做好准备;（2）提供严格的工程教育，为未来的创新奠定基础;（3）提供神经刺激和补充干预措施的开发和应用方面的专业知识，以克服神经系统疾病;（4）提供建模和仿真方面的专业知识。（肌肉骨骼和/或神经）;（5）提供广泛的，动手实践的临床浸入式经验，为每个受训者的翻译职业做好准备;（6）提供真实世界的专业发展培训，以提高毕业后的成功。 我们已经召集了一组杰出的导师，他们担任三个角色之一：研究培训导师（14），他们是学员的主要研究顾问，副研究培训导师（7），他们是T32学员委员会的内容专家，以及来自康复和外科学科的临床培训导师（14），他们确保每个学员研究项目的临床相关性。实习生项目主题包括电极开发;刺激模式设计;神经运动控制机制;神经生物材料，保护和修复;对神经系统疾病患者的干预部署;神经康复;建模和模拟;以及脑机接口。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal describes our "Integrated Engineering and Rehabilitation Training" program that produces biomedical Ph.D. graduates who combine state-of-the-art expertise in neural engineering (an area of biomedical engineering) with a genuine appreciation of the practice and challenges of clinical rehabilitation. This program is centered in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Case Western Reserve University, but also includes the strong participation of several of our local medical centers. Our program is focused exclusively on predoctoral training and we have trained 37 students since 1999. We are requesting funding for a total of 8 training positions per year for five years. Trainees are typicaly funded by the program for two years each, so we expect to train a total of 20 BME Ph.D. students over the proposed 5 years. Trainees enter with undergraduate training in engineering or a closely related discipline (e.g., physics). They satisfy the rigorous requirements of the BME Ph.D. program and benefit from its existing features, while our T32 program adds value through highly collaborative and interdisciplinary research projects, a clinical immersion experience, and unique access to visiting seminar speakers (including a journal club). Over the next 5 years, we will add a formal course on Career Development for Neural Engineers, include a seminar series on diversity and formal diversity training, and form an external Advisory Committee comprised of academic leaders in rehabilitation and neural engineering, representatives of large and small companies in the stimulation and rehabilitation commercial space, practicing neural/rehabilitation physicians, and a student diversity professional. The specific objectives of our training program are: (1) Prepare our trainees for productive careers in rehabilitation and neural engineering; (2) Provide a rigorous engineering education that forms the basis for future innovation; (3) Provide specific expertise in the development and application of neural stimulation and complementary interventions for overcoming neurological disorders; (4) Provide specific expertise in modeling and simulation (musculoskeletal and/or neural); (5) Provide an extensive, hands-on clinical immersion experience that prepares each trainee for a translational career; and (6) Provide real-world professional development training to enhance post-graduation success. We have assembled a distinguished group of mentors who serve in one of three roles: Research Training mentors (14) who are the primary research advisors of the trainees, Associate Research Training Mentors (7) who are content experts on T32 trainee committees, and Clinical Training Mentors (14) from rehabilitation and surgical disciplines who insure the clinical relevance of each trainee research project. Trainee project topics include electrode development; stimulation pattern design; neural motor control mechanisms; neural biomaterials, protection, and repair; deployment of interventions to individuals with neurological disorders; neuroreahabilitation; modeling and simulation; and brain-computer interfacing.