PROJECT TITLE :

Linking Engineering and Medical Training: A USC program seeks to introduce medical and engineering students to medical device development.

ABSTRACT:

Medical students are attracted by the prospect of a meaningful addition to their clinical work. Engineering students are excited by a unique chance to be told directly alongside their medical student peers. For each, still as the scientific community at large, the boutique program at the University of Southern California (USC) linking engineering and medical coaching at the graduate level is instructive of a brand new manner of approaching engineering education that can doubtless give edges to each students and society. Students who have grown up in an era of ?mass customization? in the retail and service industries can fancy that very same degree of flexibility conjointly within the realm of education. At the same time, society gains engineers who have developed an increased empathy and awareness of the clinical contexts in which their innovations will be implemented.