Goals

Review the experiences of different university programs involved in innovation, design, technology transfer and entrepreneurship in biomedical engineering education

Discuss objectives, challenges, and opportunities for further development of these programs – including industry and academic perspectives

Explore the potential for sharing resources and creating community- wide tools (e.g., web portal, national design contest, etc).

News

10/16/09 Vanderbilt announces two BME Design professor positions are now open: Tenure/Tenure track BME Design/Instrumentation Professor and a Term Faculty position in BME Design/Instrumentation.

10/9/09 Another successful BME-IDEA Meeting. Over 90 participants from 70 universities attended. Slidesets from each speaker are now posted.

10/1/09 Our next BME-IDEA meeting should be a great event - seventy universities will be sending representatives this year! The agenda is now finalized.

2/6/09 Our next BME-IDEA meeting will be held on October 7, 2009 in Pittsburgh, PA in conjunction with the BMES Fall Meeting. The BMES meeting will be held Oct 7-10.

11/05/08 BME-idea competition for 2009 announced. Read more at the NCIIA website.

>>past news

This site includes

• Snapshot reviews of design & innovation programs, curricula
• Comparison of approaches to technology transfer and entrepreneurship
• Industry experts opinions: priorities for biomedical engineering education
• Discussion of funding strategies
• Shared resources
• Meeting information
• Planning committee resources

Participating Universities (107)
Arizona State University
Binghamton University
Boston University
Brown University
Bucknell University
California State University at Fresno
Carnegie Mellon University
Case Western Reserve
Catholic University of America
City College of New York
Clemson University
Cleveland State University
Columbia Univesrity
Cornell University
Drexel University
Duke University
Ecole Polytechnic Federale de Lausanne
Florida Gulf Coast University
Florida International University
George Mason University
George Washington University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Harvard University -- MIT
Illinois Institute of Technology
Indiana University-Purdue
Johns Hopkins University
Lehigh University
Le Tourneau University
Louisiana Tech University
Marquette University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
McMasters University
Michigan Technological University
Milwaukee School of Engineering
New Jersey Institute of Technology
North Carolina State University
Northwestern University
Ohio State University - Main Campus
Oregon Health & Science University
Oregon State University
Pennsylvania State University
Purdue University
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rice University
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Rutgers, the State Univ of New Jersey
St. Louis University
Stanford University
SUNY, Stonybrook
Stevens Institute of Technology
Syracuse University
Tecnologico de Monterrey
Temple University
Texas A&M University
Tufts University
Tulane University
University at Indianapolis
University of Akron
University of Alabama at Birmingham
University of Alberta
University of Calgary
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Davis
University of California, Irvine
University of California, Los Angeles
University of California - Riverside
University of California, San Diego
University of Central Oklahoma
University of Cincinnati
University of Colorado, Boulder
University of Connecticut
University of Florida
University of Illinois Chicago
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Iowa
University of Louisville
University of Maryland
University of Memphis
University of Miami
University of Michigan
University of Minnesota
University of Missouri, Columbia
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
University of New Mexico
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of Oklahoma
University of Ottawa
Univeristy of Pennsylvania
University of Pittsburgh
University of Rochester
University of Southern California
University of Texas at Austin
University of Toronto
University of Utah
University of Vermont
University of Virginia
University of Washington
University. of Wisconsin-Madison
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Vanderbilt University
Virginia Commonwealth University
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Washington University, St. Louis
Wayne State University
Western New England College
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Wright State University
Yale University

Other Participating Organizations (16)

Coulter Foundation
BME Career Alliance
Boston Scientific, CRM
Cleveland Clinic
Food & Drug Administration
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Kauffman Foundation
National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance
National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research
Mann Foundation
Medical Devices Innovation Institute
National Association of Blacks in Bio
National Institutes of Health/National Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
National Science Foundation
Sloan Foundation
Whitaker Foundation