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A distributed and interdisciplinary pipeline for sustainable student-driven innovation

Award Number: R25EB034203
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: 05/01/2023
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 04/30/2028

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A distributed and interdisciplinary pipeline for sustainable student-driven innovation - Felder et al_R25_2022_Abstract_FINAL Modern engineers need to blend technical competence with global and competitive competence. For biomedical engineers, efforts to support these core competencies is to cultivate the ability to translate and commercialize design and innovation to impact the end-users. To meet this goal, we propose to establish a distributed and interdisciplinary pipeline for sustainable student-driven innovation. This proposal encompasses a comprehensive curriculum across disciplines to drive longitudinal project development and innovation. Our first specific aim is to enhance senior design project preparedness and student competency. This aim is met by thoroughly validating needs with a redesigned interdisciplinary clinical immersion program and by developing a new undergraduate biomedical engineering course to enhance student physical prototyping skills. Needs fully validated by biomedical engineering and Innovation Medicine program medical students with primary clinical experience ensures project development is aligned with the ability to commercialize a product, and enhanced student prototyping skills support realistic development with enhanced fidelity. Together these initiatives enable our second specific aim, which is to leverage interdisciplinary collaboration to enhance medtech device design. This aim is met by revising the undergraduate biomedical engineering senior design capstone to incorporate the same medical students from clinical immersion. Moreover, the senior design class will accept projects based on validated needs from clinical immersion, which enables accelerated pacing and inclusion of both verification and validation in class. Product development from senior design is then transitioned for further development to the same medical students with their own capstone experience. Continuing projects from clinical immersion to senior design and then to medical capstone has substantial benefit including the ability to retain technical development and pursuit of further development that was not otherwise possible (e.g., publication of development, execution of limited studies, pursuit of intellectual property) by one capstone experience alone. Effects of clinical immersion to validate needs and the prototyping class to enhance prototyping competency will be evaluated using surveys and deliverables. Effects of project origin (i.e., clinical immersion or other) and participation in the prototyping class will be evaluated on the ability of teams to effectively collaborate within and outside disciplines, design, verify performance requirements, and validate that design output meets original need. Long-term success of leveraging interdisciplinary collaboration for medtech device design will be evaluated by comparative assessment of medical capstone deliverables based on project origin and participation of the pipeline. This proposed pipeline has the potential to enable significant student-driven innovation. 1


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 = $41,712 )
2025	2025	UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS	809 S MARSHFIELD AVE M/C 551	CHICAGO	IL	60612	COOK	USA	Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health	002	3	4/16/2025	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$41,712
2025	2024	UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS	809 S MARSHFIELD AVE M/C 551	CHICAGO	IL	60612	COOK	USA	Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health	001	2	12/23/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
2025	2023	UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS	809 S MARSHFIELD AVE M/C 551	CHICAGO	IL	60612	COOK	USA	Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health	000	1	12/23/2024	NEW	$0
														Subtotal = $41,712

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = $41,172 )
2024	2024	UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS	809 S MARSHFIELD AVE M/C 551	CHICAGO	IL	60612	COOK	USA	Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health	000	2	5/22/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$41,172
														Subtotal = $41,172

Issue Date FY: 2023 ( Subtotal = $41,712 )
2023	2023	UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS	809 S MARSHFIELD AVE M/C 551	CHICAGO	IL	60612	COOK	USA	Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health	000	1	4/25/2023	NEW	$41,712
														Subtotal = $41,712

Grand Total All Awards = $124,596

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A distributed and interdisciplinary pipeline for sustainable student-driven innovation

Award Number: R25EB034203

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: 05/01/2023

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 04/30/2028

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