Enhancing Undergraduate Bioengineering Education through Engaged Service Learning, Clinical Immersion, and Entrepreneurship

摘要 补充我们的研究教育计划的需要是基于培养更好的研究事业 为我们的本科生和临床浸入式项目的其他参与者开发。这 补充要求将直接有助于提升学生的实践体验。生物医学工程专业毕业生 由于软技能、批判性思维或临床思维的不足，进入劳动力市场可能会遇到困难 需要在专业的生物医疗团队中取得成功。为了满足这一需求，我们建议加强我们的 课程通过促进更早地接触基于实践的团队设计和临床体验式学习 和行业相关的实践。我们将具体实现团队服务-学习设计的新组件 二年级的课程，与当地医院和急救医疗人员一起进行的暑期临床沉浸课程 初级服务，以及由当地行业专家领导的以团队为中心的翻译和 医疗器械的商业化，以增强高级设计体验。为学生提供需求- 基于服务学习的设计项目将为他们开发技术做好准备，这些技术不仅将解决 公众卫生关注的同时，也受到社会的欢迎，并加强他们对 工程在服务社会中的重要性。在此基础上，通过拟议的 临床沉浸计划，学生将熟练地识别和评估未满足的临床需求，如 并获得与人的因素有关的有意义的观点和对高质量医疗设计的期望 设备。学生还将受益于由当地行业领导的以设计团队为中心的系列研讨会 通过开展活动增进专家对与行业相关的发展做法的了解 以及如何通过监管审批流程将其高级设计翻译和商业化 技术。通过对我们计划的这三个层次的增强，引导学生完成 从需求发现到商业化的过程中，学生会在早期和反复地获得实践经验 在他们的整个学位中。通过加强他们在工程、医学和商业方面的技能 将有助于满足我们的毕业生，满足生物医学劳动力的需求，并成为下一代 生物医药行业的企业家。因此，我们的补编将在以下范围内支持这些领域 我们的家长奖。

ABSTRACT The need to supplement our research education program is based on fostering improved research career development for our undergraduates as well as additional participants for our clinical immersion program. This supplement request will directly help to enhance student practical experience. Biomedical engineering graduates entering the workforce can struggle due to under-developed soft skills, critical thinking, or the clinical mindset needed to succeed in a professional biomedical team setting. To address this need, we propose to enhance our curriculum by facilitating earlier exposure to hands-on team based design and experiential learning in clinical and industry relevant practice. We will specifically implement new components of a team service-learning design course at the sophomore level, a summer clinical immersion program with local hospitals and emergency medical services at the junior level, and a team-centered workshop led by local industry experts on the translation and commercialization of medical devices to augment the senior design experience. Providing students with needs- based service-learning design projects will prepare them in developing technologies that will not only address public health concerns but also be welcomed by the community and enhance their understanding of the importance of engineering in service to society. Building upon this through new partnerships in the proposed program for clinical immersion, student will gain proficiency in identifying and evaluating unmet clinical needs as well as gain meaningful perspectives related to human factors and expectations for design of a quality medical device. Students will also benefit from a design team-centered workshop series that will be led by local industry experts through activities that will improve their understanding of the industry-relevant practices for development and how to navigate the regulatory approval process to translate and commercialize their senior design technologies. Through this three-tiered enhancement to our program that takes students through the complete process of needs finding to commercialization, students will gain the practical experience early on and repeatedly throughout their degree. By strengthen their skills spanning engineering, medicine, and business this program will help meet our graduates meet the needs of the biomedical workforce and serve as the next generation of entrepreneurs in the biomedical industry. Our supplement will thus support these areas as within the scope of our parent award.