Title :
Introducing vision research and biomedical engineering to pre-college 8th grade girls
Author :
George, S. ; Alvarez, T.L. ; Koppel, N. ; Berliner, S.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Biomed. Eng., New Jersey Inst. of Technol., Newark, NJ, USA
Abstract :
The complex yet interesting field of vision research has been evolving in the past few decades within the Biomedical Engineering curricula. As more pre-college students are exposed to vision research, it can be anticipated that this field will bring in a new generation that will take part in the various studies of the visual and ocular system. NJIT´s pre-college program FEMME, allows pre-college girls to have summer workshops studying many engineering majors. Our goal was to introduce and expose vision research to girls to stimulate their research interest.
Keywords :
biomedical education; educational courses; eye; vision; biomedical engineering; engineering majors; ocular system; summer workshops; vision research; visual system; Application software; Biomedical engineering; Biomedical optical imaging; Computer science; Design engineering; Educational institutions; Mathematics; Medical treatment; Retina; Visual system;
Conference_Titel :
Bioengineering Conference, 2003 IEEE 29th Annual, Proceedings of
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7767-2
DOI :
10.1109/NEBC.2003.1216111
