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{"title":"A Longitudinal and Interdisciplinary Biodesign Internship Program for Biomedical Engineering Undergraduate Students Focused on Medical Device Innovation.","authors":"Lauren M Maloney, Christopher Page, Michael Bielski, Annie Rohan, Wei Yin","doi":"10.1007/s43683-025-00174-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43683-025-00174-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Challenge: </strong>The biomedical engineering (BME) capstone design courses are traditionally offered in students' senior year. Students often feel underprepared for the hands-on biodesign and prototyping process. Also, capstone design projects are often provided by BME faculty, without students' input in needs finding and screening.</p><p><strong>Novel initiative: </strong>A longitudinal and interdisciplinary biodesign internship course sequence (program) was developed and offered. This internship course has three components. Part I is offered in the fall semester of students' junior year, focusing on biodesign concept development and preliminary prototyping. Part II is offered in the spring semester of students' junior year, focusing on clinical observation and needs finding. Part III is a 6-week summer immersion program, where students work directly with clinicians and industry mentors to convert a valid clinical need into a biodesign project and initiate the bio-innovation process. Successful summer projects can be carried forward into students' senior year and become their senior design projects.</p><p><strong>Reflection: </strong>Since the start of this program in 2018, 47 students participated in the program, which accounted for approximately 20% of the total number of students. More than 75% of the projects developed in the biodesign internship program were successfully carried into BME senior design and involved more than 60% of BME students in their senior design process. Students were satisfied with their biodesign internship experience. Other products of this program include conference presentations, peer-reviewed journal publications, provisional patents, patents, and design competition awards.</p>","PeriodicalId":72385,"journal":{"name":"Biomedical engineering education","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12383801/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144980148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Insights from a Virtual Clinical Immersion Program.","authors":"Ellen P Brennan-Pierce, Susan G Stanton, Julie A Dunn","doi":"10.1007/s43683-024-00156-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s43683-024-00156-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Clinical immersion programs provide opportunities for biomedical engineering (BME) students to observe the clinical environment and medical devices in use, often leading to the identification of unmet clinical needs. Due to hospital restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic, in-person clinical immersion programs were generally not possible in summer 2020. Therefore, a six-week virtual clinical immersion program ran that summer. The program included meetings with guest clinicians and medical device sales representatives twice per week, and a group discussion held once per week. The meetings incorporated de-identified videos of medical procedures, clinician commentary of the videos, live video tours of hospital areas, clinician presentations, presentations and demonstrations by medical device sales representatives, and opportunities for discussions with these guests. The meetings were recorded and saved to create a Virtual Clinical Immersion Library. Pre and post program student self-assessment surveys showed significant increases in five ABET learning outcomes, two BME learning outcomes, and four program-specific learning outcomes. Post-graduation survey results of alumni from this program showed that all respondents had secured a job in the biomedical/engineering field or postgraduate education less than three months after graduation. These alumni are currently employed in the fields of biomedical products, healthcare, research and development, higher education, biotech, consulting, pharmaceutical, and other engineering. Overall, this virtual clinical immersion program filled a gap caused by COVID-19 pandemic closures and provided many benefits to the students that participated. The virtual program also provides an enduring library of video resources for current and future BME students.</p>","PeriodicalId":72385,"journal":{"name":"Biomedical engineering education","volume":"5 1","pages":"37-45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11864810/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143525361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assessment of a Bioengineering and Nursing Student Partnership for Medical Product Design.","authors":"Renee M Clark, April A Dukes, Lucille Sowko, Mark Gartner","doi":"10.1007/s43683-025-00180-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s43683-025-00180-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>In 2018, the Department of Bioengineering and the School of Nursing at University of Pittsburgh implemented an interdisciplinary partnership that integrated senior nursing students into the bioengineering capstone Senior Design course as part of a National Institutes of Health education grant. This two-semester course requires senior Bioengineering students to synthesize and extend principles from prior coursework toward the design a medical product meeting an unmet clinical need. Senior Design teams interact with clinicians, patients, and caregivers as part of the overall design process to understand the unique challenges of medical product design, including the requirements for regulatory approval. The teams develop iterative designs, fabricate prototypes, and perform both verification and validation testing to evaluate whether product performance criteria are met. Integrating nursing and bioengineering students was anticipated to provide opportunities for interprofessional learning, earlier and more frequent clinical input to the design process, and exposure to a spectrum of unmet clinical needs. Conversely, nursing students were anticipated to gain an understanding of the medical product design process, including regulatory requirements, to potentially empower future innovativeness.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The impact of this interdisciplinary partnership on the anticipated outcomes was assessed over a five-year timeframe using research surveys and student interviews. The design self-efficacy survey was administered in a pre-post manner to assess changes in bioengineering and nursing students' confidence, motivation, success expectancy, and apprehension for performing design activity. Students' interprofessional collaborative development was also measured in a retrospective pre-post manner using the interprofessional collaborative competency attainment survey. Finally, a spectrum of student interviews was conducted to obtain perspectives about the interdisciplinary partnership. The data were analyzed using statistical and qualitative data methods.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The results were overwhelmingly positive for the partnership. The results make a strong case for such partnerships and suggest benefits for both student groups, including significant effects for design confidence and a multitude of collaborative competencies. For bioengineering students, the nursing students' clinical knowledge, perspectives, suggestions related to unmet clinical needs, and feedback were mentioned by 84% of interviewees as a partnership benefit. The nursing students cited interprofessional teamwork as the most valuable benefit (71% of interviewees) and indicated that it supported their ability to be innovative.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The results make a strong case for engineering and nursing schools to pursue and establish partnerships between their students. This study is situated in the literature as ","PeriodicalId":72385,"journal":{"name":"Biomedical engineering education","volume":"5 2","pages":"271-284"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12405014/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145002015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Practical Research Methods Course That Teaches How to Be a Successful Biomedical Engineering Graduate Student","authors":"Samuel A. Acuña","doi":"10.1007/s43683-024-00135-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43683-024-00135-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72385,"journal":{"name":"Biomedical engineering education","volume":"339 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141386146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Lessons from Developing a Rubric for Evaluating Need Statements on Health Technology Innovation Projects","authors":"Lyn Denend, Ross Venook, Ravinder D. Pamnani, Kunj Sheth, Joseph A. Towles","doi":"10.1007/s43683-024-00153-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43683-024-00153-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72385,"journal":{"name":"Biomedical engineering education","volume":"33 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141270468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Undergraduate Students’ Engineering Systems Thinking in Synthetic Biology Design: A Qualitative Descriptive Study","authors":"Ruben D. Lopez-Parra, Tamara J. Moore","doi":"10.1007/s43683-024-00151-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43683-024-00151-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72385,"journal":{"name":"Biomedical engineering education","volume":"51 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141107458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Coming Full Circle: The 360° Experience for Biomedical Engineering Technology Students","authors":"Joie N. Marhefka, Shirley Campbell, Amy Kuntz, Laura E. Cruz","doi":"10.1007/s43683-024-00152-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43683-024-00152-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72385,"journal":{"name":"Biomedical engineering education","volume":"20 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140967303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Incorporating a Hands-On Device-Based Activity in a Human Factors Biomedical Engineering Course in Sub-Saharan Africa","authors":"A. Vweza, Sara Mehta, M. Wettergreen, A. Saterbak","doi":"10.1007/s43683-024-00147-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43683-024-00147-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72385,"journal":{"name":"Biomedical engineering education","volume":"7 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141010805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Enhancing Student Engagement in the Graduate Seminar by Scaffolding Active Learning Activities","authors":"Elizabeth A. Bullard, Christina R. Dubell, Charles Patrick, Frances S. Ligler, Mike McShane","doi":"10.1007/s43683-024-00144-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43683-024-00144-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72385,"journal":{"name":"Biomedical engineering education","volume":"27 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141015876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Convergence Research and Training in Computational Bioengineering: A Case Study on AI/ML-Driven Biofilm–Material Interaction Discovery","authors":"Jessica L. S. Zylla, A. Bomgni, Rajesh K. Sani, M. Subramaniam, Carol Lushbough, Robb Winter, V. Gadhamshetty, P. Chundi, Etienne Z. Gnimpieba","doi":"10.1007/s43683-024-00146-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43683-024-00146-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72385,"journal":{"name":"Biomedical engineering education","volume":"47 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140666415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}