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Integrating BME Design with Entrepreneurship

This program focuses on the integration of Biomedical Engineering (BME) design with entrepreneurial principles. Students engage in a full-year senior design initiative, emphasizing prototyping, intellectual property, and business development. Projects include innovative healthcare solutions, such as a personalized infusion system and a community health monitoring system. The program fosters collaboration with industry experts, promotes regulatory compliance, and encourages social ventures. Educational initiatives extend internationally, enhancing academic programs and fostering partnerships in Thailand. The initiative aims to cultivate a new generation of engineers equipped to tackle global health challenges.

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Integrating BME Design with Entrepreneurship

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  1. Integrating BME Design with Entrepreneurship Lance KamDepartment of Biomedical EngineeringColumbia UniversitySeptember 26, 2007

  2. Senior Design – 2006/2007 • Expanded to full year program • First term: prototyping and strategy • intellectual property (w/ Technology Licensing) • group dynamics • business development - end of term business plan • Second term: design, analysis, design again • validation • regulatory compliance • presentation • Representatives of University Technology Licensing and outside industry volunteers involved in advising and evaluating the design teams. • Independent efforts in an entrepreneurial environment.

  3. Senior Design – 2007 Projects • Bed angle controller(National Design Competition) • Personalized infusion system • Vein visualizationsystem • Home-based monitoring

  4. Senior Design – Social Ventures • Community weight tracking system for health monitoring in under-developed regions • Placed in semi-finals of GSVC (social venture business plan competition organized by Columbia and Berkeley); socialvc.net

  5. International Program Initiatives • National Biomedical Engineering Initiative for Thailand • Focus on development of academic programs • Established graduate programs in BME • Chulalongkorn, Chiang Mai, KMUTT • Expanded to six university consortium- undergrad focus (2006) • Funding initiatives within Thailand • Industrial goals: regenerative medicine, medical diagnostics US - Thai Symposium on Biomedical Engineering Bangkok, December, 2005

  6. Strong Foundations • Science and Technology Ventures • Four faculty with Wallace H. Coulter Foundation Early Career Translational Research Awards • Two have progressed into Phase 2 awards • Two have prototypes being developed through partnerships Dynamic Contrast Enhancement (DyCE your mice)

  7. Cross-school Initiatives • Technology Innovation Seminars • SEAS • Columbia College • Business School • Tech. Lic. • Minor in Entrepreneurship (in development) • Social venture and incubator mechanisms • Local Business Alliance and Improvement activities

  8. Senior Design – New Cycle • Continued involvement of Technology Licensing and outside industrial volunteers as advisors and evaluators • Extended time for initial design phase; business plan due at end of first term • Social Ventures • Increased involvementwith the local medicalcommunity –Neuromuscular Rehabilitation

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