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Enhancing Biomedical Engineering Education Clinical Needs Finding Courses through Immersive and Virtual Experiences

Award Number: R25EB031116
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE Of BIOMEDICAL IMAGING & BIOENGINEERING
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/01/2021
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 05/31/2026

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Enhancing Biomedical Engineering Education Clinical Needs Finding Courses through Immersive and Virtual Experiences - Project Summary The Virtual Reality Unmet Clinical Needs course offered at the junior level will engage undergraduate engineering students using online and immersive active learning techniques to develop intuition, teamwork skills, and unmet clinical needs evaluation prior to their senior capstone course, the BioENGINE program. This course will be offered through online websites and virtual reality applications to allow large institutions and those without access to medical centers to be able to perform clinical immersion and unmet clinical needs finding for all undergraduate biomedical engineering students. Through immersive technologies such as virtual reality, simulations, and online lectures using manikins and staged real-life simulations, we will provide a large class size of students the opportunity to understand how medical devices are used in the real world, and identify novel potential commercializable solutions that they will develop during their senior capstone course. To accomplish this, students will work in multidisciplinary teams to develop a proposed innovative medical solution identified through the immersive clinical environments exploration and filmed clinician interviews. By having all students in the curriculum the ability to perform unmet clinical needs identification and evaluation through virtual immersion, we will provide an inclusive online active learning program to all students in our program as well as those at other institutions. Through this strategy, all biomedical engineering students will gain more practice, depth, and experience in listening, learning, and designing a solution to an unmet clinical need, we hope to gain a more effective method of teaching biomedical engineers how to solve problems in a real world situation, and how to communicate in a team more effectively.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2025 ( Subtotal = $20,595 )
2025	2025	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE	160 ALDRICH HALL	IRVINE	CA	92697	ORANGE	USA	Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health	000	5	6/12/2025	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$20,595
														Subtotal = $20,595

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = $20,626 )
2024	2024	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE	160 ALDRICH HALL	IRVINE	CA	92697	ORANGE	USA	Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health	000	4	7/5/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$20,626
														Subtotal = $20,626

Issue Date FY: 2023 ( Subtotal = $20,659 )
2023	2023	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE	160 ALDRICH HALL	IRVINE	CA	92697	ORANGE	USA	Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health	000	3	6/23/2023	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$20,659
														Subtotal = $20,659

Issue Date FY: 2022 ( Subtotal = $20,692 )
2022	2022	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE	141 INNOVATION DR STE 250	IRVINE	CA	92617	ORANGE	USA	Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health	000	2	6/8/2022	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$20,692
														Subtotal = $20,692

Issue Date FY: 2021 ( Subtotal = $20,721 )
2021	2021	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE	141 INNOVATION DR STE 250	IRVINE	CA	92617	ORANGE	USA	Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health	000	1	8/30/2021	NEW	$20,721
														Subtotal = $20,721

Grand Total All Awards = $103,293

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Enhancing Biomedical Engineering Education Clinical Needs Finding Courses through Immersive and Virtual Experiences

Award Number: R25EB031116

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE Of BIOMEDICAL IMAGING & BIOENGINEERING

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/01/2021

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 05/31/2026

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