Bioengineering Team-Based Projects and Summer Immersion to Improve Design Experti

描述(由申请人提供)：美国的医疗保健成本令人震惊。国会预算办公室表示，2007年总支出占国内生产总值的16%；它预计，如果联邦法律不变，2025年可能达到25%，2050年可能达到37%。[i]降低成本、维持或加强患者护理的一个方法是开发更具成本效益、更安全的医疗设备。为了满足这一需求，我们必须增加受过培训的生物工程师的数量和质量，以识别和解决这些问题并设计解决方案。为此，我们的目标是改善基于团队的设计教育，通过罗文大学工程学院与生物医学学院和库珀大学医院的合作，将我们的学生培养成生物医学工程师，能够识别临床问题并设计真正的患者解决方案。其具体目标是1)在新泽西州卡姆登的库珀大学医院提供临床指导和浸入式暑期培训计划，2)利用我们医学院和当地卡姆登护理中心尚未满足的临床需求，提供生物医学工程和生物工程专业的新的开放式设计项目，并提供资金支持。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The cost of medical care is staggering in the U.S. The congressional budget office has stated that total spending was 16% of gross domestic product in 2007; it projects that without federal law changes it could be 25% in 2025 and 37% in 2050.[i] One way to hold down costs and maintain or enhance patient care is the development of more cost effective, safer medical devices. To meet this need, we must increase the number and the quality of bioengineers trained to identify and solve these problems and design solutions. To do so, our goal is to improve team-based design education to train our students to be biomedical engineers that can recognize clinical problems and design real patient solutions through a partnership between the College of Engineering and School of Biomedical Sciences at Rowan University and Cooper University Hospital. The specific aims are to 1) Provide a summer training program using clinical mentorship and immersion at the Cooper University Hospital in Camden, NJ and 2) Leverage unmet clinical needs established at our medical school and local Camden care centers, provide new open-ended design projects in the Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering Concentration with financial support.