Grand Challenges for Biomedical Engineering

3 units

National and international organizations, both historically and currently, use grand challenges to inspire transformative breakthroughs. Grand challenges can spark innovative solutions, across engineering, scientific, and medical mindsets. Challenges can focus on disease, intervention, technology, holistic health, or at-risk communities. This course will study grand challenges emerging from federal, nonprofit, academic, and global sources; analyze and model the problems and emergent solutions; and integrate over case studies to discern relative success of these approaches. Student teams will then formulate their own grand challenges, following the formalism of national organizations, and present frameworks for creative and transformative solutions.