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1 Rice 360: Undergraduate Students- Working and Learning in the Field Rice University Maria Oden

2 2013 BME-IDEA – Seattle, WA Program Elements Global Health Technologies Minor –Students from all majors at Rice –Series of 7 courses- 4 of which are design courses –Culminates in capstone design analogous to BIOE Capstone course –1/3 Engineering students –2/3 Students in other majors ½ Biosciences ½ Other

3 2013 BME-IDEA – Seattle, WA Novel Feature Opportunity for top students to have an internship in a low resource setting for 8-10 weeks in the summer –Live in work in the location that instigated the design project they are working on –Truly understand what may work and what will not work in that environment –Serve as a peer mentor for future projects –Blogs serve to teach others

4 2013 BME-IDEA – Seattle, WA Best Practices/Outcomes PARTNERS Listen in the field! Cyclical nature of projects; Learn from failure Undergraduate students can do amazing things! IV DRIP Pumani bCPAP

5 2013 BME-IDEA – Seattle, WA Outcomes Over last 6 years approximately 10% of Rice students have taken a course in the GLHT program One technology licensed and commercialized One life saving technology scaling up country-wide 3-4 promising technologies in the pipeline


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