BME - IDEABiomedical 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-IDEAFirst Meeting – IEEE/EMBS-BMES (Houston, TX, 2002)

11 universities

Second Meeting - San Francisco, CA 200319 universities

Third Meeting - BMES 2003 – Nashville, TN44 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-IDEAhttp://www.bme-idea.org/programs/

VANTHhttp://vubme.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/King/design_education.htm

http://www.bme-idea.org

contest

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 http://bmesource.org/ and click on contacts to start participating!

whitaker summit

Biomedical Engineering Educational SummitMarch 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