Transforming the BME Design Experience from Freshman to Senior Year

BME 设计体验从大一到大四的转变

• 批准号: 10649715
• 负责人: Alan W. Eberhardt
• 金额: $ 4.32万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-07-01 至 2027-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10649715
• 关键词: Acceleration; Address; Alabama; Berry; Biomedical Engineering; Businesses; Clinical; Collaborations; Comprehension; Computer software; Coupled; Creativeness; Development; Device or Instrument Development; Devices; Disabled Persons; Education; Educational Curriculum; Educational process of instructing; Engineering; Entrepreneurship; Exposure to; Faculty; Feedback; Fostering; Foundations; Free Will; Healthcare Systems; Hospitals; Immersion; Instruction; Learning; Marketing; Medical; Medical Device; Medical Technology; Medicine; Mission; Modeling; Orthopedic Surgery; Output; Participant; Procedures; Process; Public Health; Science; Self-Help Devices; Services; Student recruitment; Students; Technology; Thinking; Time; Translating; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Work; aging population; commercialization; course sequence; design; disability; disabled students; early experience; engineering design; experience; improved; innovation; interdisciplinary approach; learning outcome; lectures; multidisciplinary; neurosurgery; novel; pandemic disease; product development; programs; prototype; provider communication; satisfaction; simulation; skills; software development; success; undergraduate education; undergraduate student

Project Summary/Abstract Most senior design courses in Biomedical Engineering (BME) challenge students with the task of creating engineered solutions to unsolved clinical problems. This experience, however, is often the first time in the curriculum that students are exposed to needs finding, communicating with clinicians, following an engineering process to generate innovative solutions, and incorporating user feedback. Through the proposed activities, we will introduce clinical innovation experiences earlier in the curriculum so that BME students enter their capstone year as experienced innovators. We will capitalize on existing partnerships between medicine, engineering and business in design, innovation, and entrepreneurship to form an early interdisciplinary BME education that fosters more experienced and creative biomedical engineers well into the 21st century. Three specific opportunities for strategic enhancement of the BME undergraduate experience at UAB have been identified. First, there is a need to create a cohesive experience for BME underclassmen, as student exposure to BME faculty and content is limited in the first two years. Secondly, there is a large gap in time between the early design courses and the senior capstone, during which exposure to clinical problems is sparse, and design/innovation are not emphasized. Thirdly, there is a need for higher level engineering design activities in the capstone experience. The objective of the present proposal will be met through three aims. The first aim is to introduce to clinical innovation and design thinking to freshmen and sophomores by providing needs finding opportunities in a clinical setting and guiding them toward development of solutions to clinical problems in a classroom setting. In the second aim, ten rising BME juniors will take part in a 10-week summer clinical immersion in which they will perform needs finding and customer discovery surrounding medical/assistive devices or processes, develop a preliminary design/prototype, and create a business model. A faculty team will screen their output for use in the upcoming senior design course. The third aim is to enhancement the senior capstone experience by accelerating the project selection process and teaching best design practices during the first semester. In the second semester, new online modules covering business topics will free up valuable class time for advanced engineering topics and design activities that will improve student learning outcomes and increase the potential for novel, patentable designs. In addition, we will launch a new effort with the UAB Office of Disability Support Services (DSS) to recruit students with disabilities into our undergraduate program. People with disabilities represent a powerful stakeholder and given our record of accomplishment for product development in this space, this activity will serve to improve overall success and involve an underserved constituent in engineering.

项目概要/摘要 大多数生物医学工程 (BME) 高级设计课程都向学生提出创造的任务 为未解决的临床问题设计解决方案。然而，这种经历往往是第一次 学生接触需求发现、与临床医生沟通、遵循工程的课程 生成创新解决方案并纳入用户反馈的过程。通过拟议的活动，我们 将在课程的早期引入临床创新经验，以便 BME 学生进入他们的顶峰 年作为经验丰富的创新者。我们将利用医学、工程和 设计、创新和创业领域的商业，形成早期跨学科的 BME 教育 为进入 21 世纪培养更有经验和创造力的生物医学工程师。三具体 已经确定了战略性增强 UAB 的 BME 本科体验的机会。 首先，需要为 BME 低年级学生创造一种有凝聚力的体验，因为学生接触 BME 前两年师资和内容有限。其次，与早期设计时间差距较大 课程和高级顶点课程，在此期间很少接触到临床问题，以及设计/创新 没有强调。第三，顶峰需要更高水平的工程设计活动 经验。本提案的目标将通过三个目标来实现。第一个目标是介绍 通过提供需求发现机会，向新生和大二学生提供临床创新和设计思维 临床环境并指导他们在课堂环境中制定临床问题的解决方案。 在第二个目标中，十名即将升入 BME 的大三学生将参加为期 10 周的夏季临床浸入式课程，他们将在其中 将围绕医疗/辅助设备或流程进行需求发现和客户发现，开发 初步设计/原型，并创建商业模式。教师团队将筛选他们的成果以用于 即将推出的高级设计课程。第三个目标是通过以下方式增强高级顶点体验 在第一学期加快项目选择过程并教授最佳设计实践。在 第二学期，涵盖商业主题的新在线模块将为高级课程腾出宝贵的课堂时间 工程主题和设计活动将提高学生的学习成果并增加潜力 新颖的、可申请专利的设计。此外，我们将与 UAB 残疾人支持办公室合作开展一项新的工作 招募残疾学生加入我们的本科课程的服务 (DSS)。残疾人士 代表强大的利益相关者，并考虑到我们在该领域产品开发的成就记录， 这项活动将有助于提高整体成功率，并让工程领域服务不足的群体参与进来。