BME - IDEA Biomedical Engineering - Innovation, Design & Entrepreneurship Alliance
1.Share best practices 2.Develop joint educational resources 3.Build community goals
who we are Seventy universities (so far) BME program faculty with a design and entrepreneurship perspective Design course instructors Industry representatives Foundation representatives Whitaker, NCIIA supported
history of BME-IDEA First Meeting – IEEE/EMBS-BMES (Houston, TX, 2002) 11 universities Second Meeting - San Francisco, CA universities Third Meeting - BMES 2003 – Nashville, TN 44 universities Fourth Meeting - BMES 2004 Philadelphia, PA 48 universities
projects Collection/documentation about design programs/courses National Design Contest BME student portal (bmesource.org)
catalog of BME-IDEA programs BME-IDEA VANTH design_education.htm
contest
xx universities participating so far Winners to be presented at BMES 2005
portal
bmesource.org Fourteen universities participating so far Seeking section editors (47 needed, 5 identified and site editors (as many as there are bme design courses - 18 identified) See and click on contacts to start participating!
whitaker summit Biomedical Engineering Educational Summit March 3-6, 2005
kauffman foundation
nciia
ABET panel
achieving entrepreneurial literacy
what is industry looking for?
how do you assess students/teams?
ip survey
moving forward Next meeting - BMES 2005, Baltimore, MD