# Translational Team-based Training for Biomedical Engineers (T3-BME)

> **NIH NIH R25** · WIDENER UNIVERSITY · 2021 · $21,600

## Abstract

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Translational Team-Based Training for Biomedical Engineers (T -BME)
ABSRACT:
Integrative multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary team-based design approach with a clinical
immersion component and consideration of practical aspects of commercialization and spiraling
health care costs can train biomedical engineers to design viable medical devices that meet
patient needs while controlling the healthcare cost. Specific Aims of this proposal are: 1)
Develop and deliver a multidisciplinary Biomedical Devices Development Course including a
Clinical Immersion Component and 2) Enhancing Team-based Interdisciplinary Senior Design
Project Experience in Biomedical Engineering Education. Innovative components of Specific
Aim 1 of this proposal includes shifting from tradition of posing design problems for students to
offering biomedical engineering students the opportunity, training and responsibility to identify
real-world unmet clinical needs while working in a truly multidisciplinary team of students from
the Schools of Nursing through a Biomedical Device Development Course. This course will
offer lectures and trainings on responsible conduct of research, intellectual property and
patenting, FDA and regulatory path and market analysis. Additional guest lectures from experts
in the field will offer insight into the real world product development process. These lectures will
be complemented with three industrial site visits to gain an understanding of work environment
complexity. Clinical unmet needs will be identified at the five clinical immersion sites followed
by two weeks of simulation lab training at the Center for Simulation and Computerized Testing
located in Widener School of Nursing offering students hands-on experience of the clinical
problem. Student success will be assessed through course assignments, an online discussion forum
updating their weekly observation concluding with an oral poster presentation outlining an unmet
clinical need and viable engineering solution for each clinical site. The top five proposed project
ideas that are appropriate to meet time, cost and prototyping constraints of current design
facilities and also ensure full buy-in from the clinician in order to provide direction and technical
expertise will then be undertaken by some or all of these BME students as the two semester
Capstone senior design project courses (ENGR 401/402), leading us into Specific Aim 2 of this
proposed study. Additionally, engineering and nursing (Junior) students could pursue the
proposed projects as part of the Widener Summer Research program, which is designed to
promote undergraduate research experience at Widener University. Goals of Specific Aim 2 of
this proposal are to (a) translate the unmet clinical needs into open-ended, interdisciplinary team-
based senior design projects, and broaden students exposure and understanding of challenges that
are specific to clinical environments (b) evaluate the effectiveness of incorporating clinical...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10137929
- **Project number:** 5R25EB023857-05
- **Recipient organization:** WIDENER UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Anita Singh
- **Activity code:** R25 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $21,600
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2017-04-14 → 2023-02-28

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10137929

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10137929, Translational Team-based Training for Biomedical Engineers (T3-BME) (5R25EB023857-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10137929. Licensed CC0.

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