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

通过参与服务学习、临床沉浸和创业精神加强本科生生物工程教育

基本信息

批准号：
10596138
负责人：
MICHAEL CHO
金额：
$ 8.36万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS ARLINGTON
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2022
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2022-01-01 至 2026-12-31
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10596138
关键词：
Active Learning Address Advanced Development Area Awareness Bachelor&apos s Degree Biomedical Engineering Businesses Characteristics Clinical Clinics and Hospitals Communities Community Health Complex Country Critical Thinking Development Device or Instrument Development Devices Education Educational Curriculum Educational workshop Emergency medical service Engineering Entrepreneurship Exposure to Face Feedback Goals Health Hospitals Human Immersion Industry Intuition Joints Knowledge Marketing Medical Medical Device Medical Technology Medical center Medicine Mentors Mentorship Minority Groups Minority-Serving Institution Occupations Population Population Growth Process Public Health Regulatory Affairs Regulatory Pathway Research Risk Science Series Services Social Responsibility Societies Student recruitment Students Technology Texas Training Translating Translations Underrepresented Minority Universities Work career clinically relevant cohort commercialization community involvement design early experience empowerment engineering design expectation experience ideation improved innovation leadership development learning engagement learning outcome lens manufacture next generation programs service learning skill acquisition skills social social engagement student participation undergraduate student underrepresented minority student underserved area

项目摘要

Abstract The unique characteristics of the training needed for today’s biomedical engineers to face complex and cross- disciplinary problems impart difficulties in curriculum design. The need to accommodate a sufficiently strong background in foundational science and engineering as well as the diverse areas of biomedical engineering often results in a full set of technically-heavy didactic courses with little opportunity for experiential training prior to the capstone senior design course. As a result of the lack of practical experience, biomedical engineering graduates entering the workforce may 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, students 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 processes to translate and commercialize their senior design technologies. Through this three-tiered enhancement to our program that takes students through the complete progression from needs finding to commercialization, students will gain the practical experience early on and repeatedly throughout their undergraduate studies. By strengthen their skills spanning engineering, medicine, and business this program will help our graduates meet the needs of the biomedical workforce and serve as the next generation of entrepreneurs in the biomedical industry.

抽象的当今生物医学工程师面对复杂而跨的培训所需的独特特征纪律问题带来了课程设计的困难。需要足够强大的需要基础科学和工程以及生物医学工程领域的潜在背景导致完整的技术性教学课程，几乎没有机会进行经验的培训 Capstone高级设计课程。由于缺乏实践经验，生物医学工程毕业生进入劳动力可能由于欠发达的软技能，批判性思维或临床心态而挣扎需要在专业的生物医学团队环境中取得成功。为了满足这一需求，我们建议增强我们的课程通过促进早期接触动手团队的设计和临床专家学习和行业相关的实践。我们将专门实施团队服务学习设计的新组件大二一级的课程是当地医院和紧急医疗的夏季临床沉浸计划在初级层面的服务，以及由当地行业专家在翻译和医疗设备的商业化以增强高级设计经验。为学生提供需求 - 基于服务学习的设计项目将为开发技术做好准备，不仅会解决公共卫生的问题，但也受到社区的欢迎，并增强了他们对工程为社会服务的重要性。通过拟议的新合作伙伴关系建立在此基础上临床沉浸的计划，学生将熟练地识别和评估未满足的临床需求以及获得与人为因素有关的有意义的观点以及对高质量医学设计的期望设备。学生还将受益于以设计团队为中心的研讨会系列，该系列将由当地行业领导专家通过活动将提高他们对与行业相关的发展实践的理解，以及如何导航监管机构批准流程以翻译和商业化其高级设计技术。通过对我们计划的三层增强，使学生通过完整的从需求寻找到商业化的发展，学生将尽早获得实际经验在整个本科学习中反复。通过加强他们的技能，跨越工程，医学，业务这个计划将帮助我们的毕业生满足生物医学劳动力的需求，并作为生物医学行业的下一代企业家。