ENHANCEMENT OF TULANE BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING CAPSTONE TEAM DESIGN COURSE

 描述（由申请人提供）：该提案寻求美国国立卫生研究院的支持，以增强杜兰大学现有的顶点生物医学工程团队设计课程，使学生能够参与解决临床需求的医疗技术设计项目。学生将在开放式的生物医学设计项目上进行团队合作，这些项目由学生自己制定，源于他们在新的夏季临床沉浸期间对临床需求和市场机会的识别，并由随后的监管和报销景观分析和其他考虑因素指导。强化课程将强调先进的原型设计和健全的知识产权战略，以定位团队成功实现项目商业化。“设计思维”（又名“以人为本的设计”）将是一个运行的主题和加强课程的活动统一的元素。在设计过程中的适当阶段，将引入"精益设计"和"面向制造和装配的设计"（DFMA）等专题。强化课程将与其他课程和计划交叉链接，以提高学生的沟通技巧，提高学生的意识和能力，从事终身学习。为期一年的学术课程将最终提交临时专利，以保护学生的知识产权，以及一个由设计竞赛和商业推销组成的展览会，以吸引潜在投资者。这些增强功能将为学生在医学和健康相关的工程实践的职业生涯做好准备-并将支持医疗技术的设计和开发，以造福社会。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal seeks NIH support for enhancements of Tulane University's existing capstone Biomedical Engineering Team Design course to enable its students to engage in medical technology design projects addressing clinical needs. Students will work in teams on open-ended biomedical design projects formulated by the students themselves-originating from their identification of clinical needs & market opportunities during a new summer clinical immersion, and guided by subsequent analyses of regulatory & reimbursement landscapes and other considerations. The enhanced course will emphasize advanced prototyping and sound intellectual property strategy to position the teams for successful commercialization of their projects. "Design thinking" (aka "Human Centered Design") will be a running theme and unifying element across activities of the enhanced course. Special topics such as "lean design" and "design for manufacture and assembly" (DFMA) will be introduced at appropriate stages in the design process. The enhanced course will cross-link with other courses & programs to improve student communication skills and increase student awareness of & ability to engage in life-long learning. The academic-year-long course will culminate in the filing of provisional patents to protect student intellectual property, and a publc show constituting a design competition with commercial pitch to potential investors. These enhancements will prepare students for careers in medicine and health-related engineering practice- and will support the design and development of medical technology to benefit society.