DEVELOPING THE GLOBAL BIOMEDICAL ENGINEER THROUGH A 12-MONTH INTERNATIONAL UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH EXPERIENCE IN THE U.S. AND CHINA

摘要

The China Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) is an NSF-funded research project offering undergraduate students three consecutive semesters of lab research, including an integrated international component. The goal of CURE is to provide undergraduate students with an international research experience that offers them a global perspective on research challenges and opportunities in the field of biomedical engineering while enhancing their skills in scholarship and innovation through research. A related objective is to motivate students not only to enter graduate studies, but also to enroll in a graduate program with an international component. A third goal is for these undergraduate students to serve as a type of shared asset linking the work, communication, and cultures of the three institutional partners. For this first report of the three-year project, the attention is limited to what we learned about facilitating the international module of the program from the first cohort's experiences. In future reports we will widen our lens to include the overall effects of the 12 months of undergraduate research.