October 7, 2009
The Alliance was held in conjunction with the Fall BMES meeting of 2009. We had a very successful meeting with a full agenda.
invitation
To BME Department Chairs:
You are invited to join us for the 7th meeting of BME-IDEA which will be convened October 7, 2009 in Pittsburgh, PA just prior to day the annual meeting of BMES. The Biomedical Engineering – Innovation, Design and Entrepreneurship Alliance (BME-IDEA) is a working group of 95 leading Biomedical Engineering departments across North America.
BME-IDEA is a day-long, working meeting focusing on best practices in innovation, design, technology transfer and entrepreneurship in biomedical engineering education. Featured sessions will include foundation leaders discussing emerging program opportunities, sessions on educating global engineers and effective approaches to design and product development education. As chair of your program, these issues are important to you. If you are not able to attend, we invite and encourage you to send an appropriate faculty member from your department.
We will be inviting select programs to prepare 5 – 10 minute “innovation snapshots” highlighting their most novel/innovative developments in graduate-level, experiential-learning courses in medical device innovation. The snapshots will be collected and featured on the BME-IDEA web site to motivate design/innovation/entrepreneurship education initiatives in BME programs worldwide.
Please tell us if your program is offering a graduate-level medical device innovation course and the name of the professor in charge. Send the information to Jack Linehan.
Sincerely,
BME IDEA Conference Planning Committee:
James Antaki
Harvey Borovetz
Matt Glucksburg
Christine Kurihara
Amy Lerner
Jack Linehan
Maria Oden
Rob Radwin
David Vorp
Phil Weilerstein
Paul Yock
2009 BME-IDEA Workshop Agenda
Pittsburgh, PA
October 7, 2009
Allegheny III Ballroom – 3rd Floor
Westin Pittsburgh
| 10/6/09 | Participants arrive, check into hotel |
| 10/7/09 | BME-IDEA Workshop Agenda |
| 7:30am | Breakfast and Workshop Registration: Pick up nametags and program booklets |
| MORNING SESSIONS | |
| 8:00am | Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering – Providing Experiences and an Environment for Creative and Innovative Design Mini panels will present highlights of emerging practice in three areas of current interest. Panels will include:
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| 9:15am | Break |
| 9:30am | Best Practices in Building Graduate-Level Design Programs in BME, Biomedical Design Programs Incorporating Design and Cognitive Development, and Evolution of Applied Design Programs Moderators: Jack Linehan, Paul Yock
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| 11:00am | Break |
| 11:15am | Research and Tools for Analyzing BME Design Team Projects Moderator: Phil Weilerstein To improve design education, engineering educators need to better understand how student teams navigate the design process from concept to prototype. Tools that enable both real time assessment as well as retrospective analysis of the student design process will be presented. These methodologies utilize reflection and online assessments to analyze team effectiveness and accomplishments as the project evolves. Panelists: Mary Besterfield-Sacre (University of Pittsburgh) Larry Schuman (University of Pittsburgh) |
| LUNCH | |
| 12:00pm | Case Study of Practical Issues Associated with Commercialization of Medical Devices Peter DeComo, Former Founder, Chairman & CEO of Renal Solutions, Inc., Currently Chairman & CEO of Alung Technologies, Inc. Moderator: Jim Antaki Medical device development and ultimately commercialization can be fraught with pitfalls. The speaker will highlight a case study illustrating real life challenges that must be overcome in order to obtain regulatory approvals followed by commercialization and a successful monetary exit for private and institutional investors. In this case the progress of the company was complicated and costly due to the development of a complex technology which was a first of its kind in the targeted market space and therapeutic application. The company successfully maneuvered through these challenges bringing to market a revolutionary therapeutic modality that will improve the clinical and quality of life outcomes for thousands of patients while at the same time reducing the total cost of care for the health care system. |
| AFTERNOON SESSIONS | |
| 1:30pm | Global BME –Social Impact through BME design Moderators: Maria Oden, Phil Weilerstein Engineering Design for Global Health Needs: This workshop will provide a hands-on experience in global health engineering design. Participants will work in teams to develop a solution to a global health design challenge. Experience/consider the process from problem definition, user needs assessment, brainstorming, and prototype design to dissemination and see how global health design projects can be incorporated into a course. Hear short vignettes from faculty who are implementing these kinds of programs in their courses. |
| 3:00pm | Break |
| 3:15pm | Web-based Resources and Tools for Curricular Innovation Moderators: Jim Antaki, Amy Lerner Students in Biomedical Engineering Design programs have become increasingly accustomed to using a wide range of online tools and materials. In this session, we will introduce two new web resources which will launch this fall, and discuss other tools that students currently use.
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| RECEPTION | |
| 4:00 to 5:30pm | Reception – Penn City Grille, 2nd Floor Westin [one floor below meeting room] |
October 8, 2009 at BMES
| BME IDEA AWARDS | |
| 5:30 – 7:00pm | BME Idea awards will be presented at BMES in the evening session |
Attending Institutions
| Arizona State University – Tempe Campus BME Career Alliance Boston Scientific, CRM Boston University Bucknell University Carnegie Mellon University Case Western Reserve University Clemson University Cleveland Clinic Cleveland State University Duke University Florida Gulf Coast University Florida International University George Mason University George Washington University Georgia Institute of Technology Howard Hughes Medical Institute Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) Johns Hopkins University Louisiana Tech University Marquette University Massachusetts Institute of Technology McMaster University Medical Devices Innovation Institute Michigan Technological University Milwaukee School of Engineering National Science Foundation Northwestern University Ohio State University – Main Campus Pennsylvania State University – Main Campus Purdue University Rice University Saint Louis University – Main Campus Stanford University Stevens Institute of Technology |
Tecnologico de Monterrey Texas A&M University of Akron University of Alabama – Birmingham University of California – Davis University of California – Irvine University of California – Riverside University of California – San Diego University of Cincinnati University of Florida University of Iowa University of Louisville University of Maryland, College Park University of Memphis University of Miami University of Michigan – Ann Arbor University of Minnesota University of Missouri – Columbia University of Nebraska – Lincoln University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill University of Ottawa University of Pennsylvania University of Pittsburgh University of Rochester University of Texas at Austin University of Toronto University of Utah University of Virginia University of Washington University of Wisconsin-Madison Vanderbilt University Virginia Commonwealth University Washington University in St Louis Wayne State University Western New England College |