1. Breakout Session II: Resources for Teaching

2. Four Main Topics: Funding, Industry Involvement, Facilities/Resources, Faculty

3. Funding –Group Leader: Harvey Borovetz –Members: Shayne Peirce-Cottler, Robert Radwin, James Antaki, Vincent Pizziconi, Gerald Miller, Krishnan Chandran –First Issue: Sources of Funds Industry sponsors often fund their specific projects. Wealthy individuals (e.g. visiting ward committee member, alumnus)  for Naming Rights. University grants Department-funded Student-funded Govt funding NCIIA grants –Facilities/Resources Issue: Other departments, if involved, often contribute to funding of projects.

4. Funding Discussion –Q: Is there a Lab fee involved? Students is charged for tuition and lab fees (~$100) if they’re involved in lab courses. (Texas A&M). This goes to separate account which will only be spent on undergrad resources. (Other universities require that these lab fees be a small %.)

5. Industry Involvement –Group Leader: Matthew O’Donnell –Members: Humera Fasihudden, Daniel Kamei, Gerard Cote, William Tang, King Yang –First Issue: Not enough involvement  How to increase? Bootstrapping with faculty projects. But student numbers grow which becomes problematic. Leveraging industrial boards and internships add more involvement.

6. Industry Involvement Other sources: –Medical school or vet school affiliated with college –NASA and other national labs –Medical centers and charity organizations. –WHO – good source of knowledge/advice but not projects really. –Engineering without Borders: Only provide projects but not funding. –Engineering World Health – They’ll look at projects and then choose one that they’ll fund. –Easter Seals, Light House– Non-profit organizations Angels –Second Issue: IP Bigger issue for faculty than industry. Undergrad student is not employee of university so IP belongs to him. Depends on source of funds: Federal or local. Industry more used to IP issues and often have a standard procedure to deal with them.

7. Facilities/Resources Group Leader: Richard Schoephoerster –Members: Sherry Voytik-Harbin, Thomas Papathomas, Samatha Richerson, Edward Guo, David Schneewies, Maria Oden –ABET looks at facilities but there needs to be a criteria. –Training needed for students for fabrication and prototypes. –Staff: Support Staff Combination lab manager also act as technical advisor. –Clinical Side: Clinical stakeholder who can provide facilities for students. –Testing Resources: Responsibilities fall on sponsor to make sure students have facilities to complete the product.

8. Facilities/Resources Discussion Mentor can be alumni who act as additional advisors. Safety aspects: Lab managers’ presence is necessary. –Problem: Individual team mix up their equipment in shared facilities –Solution: Dedicated faculty allows project to remain in the room. –Testing (Clinical): Use cadavers as human subjects.

9. Faculty Group Leader: Jay Goldberg Members: Steve Jones, Matt Glucksburg, Dan Bogen, Raymond Fish First Issue: Faculty have different roles. »Program developer (sets up and running course) »Clients (from BME and other depts.)  generate ideas for projects, and funding sometimes. »Lecturers: »Grad Students as TA’s: Second Issue: Workload to be handled w/ TAs or more faculty members. Third Issue: Incentives to encourage faculty Dedication required.

10. Faculty Discussion Q: For faculty-sponsored projects, postdoc are used as mentor/customer. Faculty position is to “sign the check” since as the end of semester nears, they’ll be too busy to be available. Q. Bias for faculty-sponsored projects: Project goals to benefit their research… Q. Faculty can create projects that do not have enough design component, and too much research component.  If they’re unfamiliar with ABET criteria Q: Screening of projects  either done by faculty or students Q: Project outcomes: Program chair needs to be ABET representative (?). Final ppt used to decide about project outcomes. Q: Lectures provided for faculty who are unfamiliar with industrial field… Faculty’s role is more along the lines of technical advisor.