proposal for a new web portal for students of BME innovation, design

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proposal fora new web portal for students of
BME innovation, design entrepreneurship

• NCIIA Conference, March 18, 2004

bmesource.org
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Paul G. Yock, MDMartha Weiland Professor of
Medicine and Mechanical Engineering (by
courtesy)Co-chair, BioengineeringDirector,
Biodesign ProgramStanford University

• Christine Kurihara
• Associate Director for Academic Administration
• Biodesign Program
• Stanford University

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background

• BME design courses growing
• web searching is now major resource
• up-to-date information on technologies,
• procedures, products is important

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but

• web searching is inefficient
• quality of sources highly variable
• good sources are generally not
• retained beyond end of term

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we propose

• an alliance of BME design programs
• to create and maintain a shareware
• web teaching portal

bmesource.org
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strategy

• an army of student web crawlers can create
• and maintain a large and vital web portal

• students will benefit from faster and better
• start to their own projects
• they will contribute to better resources
• for future students and colleagues

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homepage
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introduction
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diagnosis
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organization

• faculty editorial board managing editor
• each participating program responsible for
• 1-2 sections (for 3 years)
• TA, students or other local editor can add links
• students or student teams assigned topic area
• students enter links at end of term (for inside
  topic area) or email to managing editor (for
  outside topic area)

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backend - wiki web

• collaborative tool for web content management
• allows editing of pages through web browser
• features include search, locking, page history
• minimal knowledge of HTML required for editing

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funding concepts

• run lean shareware ethic
• start-up funding by grant
• industry sponsorship on annual basis?
• if possible, use this to raise for
  participating programs

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main goal

• provide BME design students with
• an efficient and reliable tool to guide
• info gathering on web

• broader, better quality search
• accurate assessment of real-world technologies
• more time for other aspects of design education
• preserve work of previous students

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associated goals

• further develop community among BME design,
  innovation entrepreneurship programs utility
• provide tool for BME design students to carry
  into careers
• medical device industry participation

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current status

• editorial board formed
• pilot with 3 universities Georgia Tech,
  Stanford, Vanderbilt
• start-up grant/funding obtained
• all medical specialties populated engineering
  areas started

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future plans

• add universities at rate of one per month (25
  universities have indicated interest)
• recruit assistance from collaboration/education
  experts
• determine corporate interest
• enhanced search, link check, other collaborative
  tools

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demonstration

• Immediately following this session, during the
  lunch break, we will have a laptop in the lobby
  to demonstrate bmesource.org
• Questions?