2018 World Congress of Biomechanics: Undergraduate Student Support from the Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering and Biotransport (SB3C) Foundation

2018世界生物力学大会：夏季生物力学、生物工程和生物运输（SB3C）基金会的本科生支持

• 批准号: 1759176
• 负责人: Jonathan Vande Geest
• 金额: $ 2.74万
• 依托单位: University of Pittsburgh
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-01-01 至 2019-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1759176&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: 2018; World; Congress; Biomechanics; Undergraduate

This award will support student activities at the 2018 Summer Biomechanics, Biotransport and Bioengineering Conference (SB3C2018) being held in conjunction with the 2018 World Congress of Biomechanics (WCB2018) in Dublin, Ireland, on July 6-11, 2018. The SB3C meetings, and their predecessor SBC meetings, are generally considered the premiere annual meetings for biomechanics. The quadrennial World Congress of Biomechanics is the world's largest conference on biomechanics. The primary purpose of the meeting is to promote state-of-the-art research, collaboration, and international scientific discourse in the broad field of bioengineering with focus on biomechanics, biotechnology, biotransport, biomaterials, tissue engineering, rehabilitation and design. The organizing committee for WCB18 and SB3C2018 is drawn from individuals in academia and the industry with significant experience in running the previous summer meetings. The meeting and its precursor meetings have traditionally provided a high-quality, multidisciplinary biomedical engineering event since the early 90's and contributed to training many generations of academics and researchers. Notably, the summer meetings series has, since its inception, prioritized the integration of students into the meeting to support their professional development and future connection to the biomechanics, biotransport and bioengineering research community. For many years, students have made up more than 50% of attendees and presenters at SB3C meetings. In addition to the direct impact this conference will have on the mainstream bioengineering community, it serves an important cross-fertilization role, since attendees are drawn from a very broad range of disciplines beyond biomechanics . The aims of the project are to sponsor 20 travel fellowships for females and under-represented minorities; to support a Diversity Mentorship event to connect students from underrepresented groups with academic mentors; and to sponsor the prestigious Student Paper Competition by covering the meeting registration costs of the top 20 submissions to each of the BS and MS competitions. Student travel fellowships will be targeted at students who have just completed their junior year, which will allow them to network and explore graduate school options. These students typically have not advanced enough in their undergraduate research to obtain institutional support for conference travel. Finalists and winners in the student paper competition can add this information to their resumes, and the competition provides an opportunity for students to develop as researchers and is a significant career boost, enhancing retention of the most talented students and providing role models for all student attendees. Through the technical proceedings and conference web site, information presented at the meeting will be available to multiple societies and to the public at large. Further, the conference has historically had, and is expected to continue to have more than 50 percent of the attendees being students and postdoctoral fellows and more than 25 percent female attendees. For the second time, the organization committee has been extended to include a Diversity Chair. Through the travel fellowships and associated workshops, the PI plans to establish this meeting as the "go to" conference for female and under-represented minority attendees.

该奖项将支持 2018 年夏季生物力学、生物转运和生物工程会议 (SB3C2018) 的学生活动，该会议与 2018 年世界生物力学大会 (WCB2018) 于 2018 年 7 月 6 日至 11 日在爱尔兰都柏林举行。及其前身 SBC 会议通常被认为是生物力学领域首屈一指的年度会议。四年一度的世界生物力学大会是世界上最大的生物力学会议。 会议的主要目的是促进生物工程广泛领域的最先进研究、合作和国际科学讨论，重点关注生物力学、生物技术、生物运输、生物材料、组织工程、康复和设计。 WCB18 和 SB3C2018 的组委会由学术界和业界人士组成，他们在举办之前的夏季会议方面拥有丰富的经验。自 20 世纪 90 年代初以来，该会议及其前身会议一直是高质量、多学科的生物医学工程盛会，并为培养多代学者和研究人员做出了贡献。值得注意的是，夏季会议系列自成立以来就优先考虑让学生融入会议，以支持他们的专业发展以及未来与生物力学、生物运输和生物工程研究界的联系。多年来，SB3C 会议的与会者和演讲者中学生比例均超过 50%。这次会议除了对主流生物工程界产生直接影响外，还发挥着重要的交叉作用，因为与会者来自生物力学以外的广泛学科。该项目的目标是为女性和代表性不足的少数族裔提供 20 项旅行奖学金；支持多元化辅导活动，将代表性不足群体的学生与学术导师联系起来；赞助著名的学生论文竞赛，支付每届学士和硕士竞赛前 20 名提交的会议注册费用。学生旅行奖学金将针对刚刚完成大三课程的学生，这将使他们能够建立人际网络并探索研究生院的选择。 这些学生的本科研究通常还没有取得足够的进展，无法获得会议旅行的机构支持。 学生论文竞赛的决赛入围者和获奖者可以将这些信息添加到他们的简历中，竞赛为学生提供了发展成为研究人员的机会，并且是一个重大的职业提升，提高了最有才华的学生的保留率，并为所有学生参与者提供了榜样。通过技术会议记录和会议网站，多个学会和广大公众将可以获得会议上提供的信息。此外，该会议历来并且预计将继续有超过 50% 的与会者是学生和博士后研究员，以及超过 25% 的女性与会者。组织委员会第二次扩大规模，增加了一名多元化主席。通过旅行奖学金和相关研讨会，PI 计划将这次会议打造为女性和代表性不足的少数族裔与会者的“必去”会议。