Saturday, October 5, 2024
10/5/2024
PROJECT SUMMARY The "Educational Toolkit for Bioengineering Design, Entrepreneurship and Service Learning” parent award has focused on enhancing the biomedical engineering education by implementing several additional curricular components in team-based courses that include clinical needs finding, entrepreneurial bioengineering, capstone senior design and biomedical innovations for global impact. Through this supplement award, we propose additional work to enhance excellence in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility (DEIA) Mentorship. Specifically, we will focus our efforts on promoting (a) mentoring students from diverse backgrounds (b)enhancing DEIA within the biomedical engineering curriculum and (c) leadership experiences for mentees and (d) community engagement to promote biodesign and service learning. If the goals of the proposed DEIA activities are met, students will gain valuable understanding about the role of a biomedical engineer in the world around them, possess an understanding about design and commercialization in an engineering context, but are sensitive to aspects beyond science, such as health disparities and ethical challenges. Furthermore, by emphasizing the community engagement aspect in the different courses as part of the educational toolkit, we are encouraging the students to be the best possible stewards of their education, in growing to serve the communities around them, and inspiring the younger generation of engineers.
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