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Rice 360: Undergraduate Students-  Working and Learning in the F ield R ice University

Rice 360: Undergraduate Students-  Working and Learning in the F ield R ice University. Maria Oden. Program Elements. Global Health Technologies Minor Students from all majors at Rice Series of 7 courses- 4 of which are design courses

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Rice 360: Undergraduate Students-  Working and Learning in the F ield R ice University

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  1. Rice 360: Undergraduate Students-  Working and Learning in the FieldRice University Maria Oden

  2. Program Elements • Global Health Technologies Minor • Students from all majors at Rice • Series of 7 courses- 4 of which are design courses • Culminates in capstone design analogous to BIOE Capstone course • 1/3 Engineering students • 2/3 Students in other majors • ½ Biosciences • ½ Other

  3. Novel Feature • Opportunity for top students to have an internship in a low resource setting for 8-10 weeks in the summer • Live in work in the location that instigated the design project they are working on • Truly understand what may work and what will not work in that environment • Serve as a peer mentor for future projects • Blogs serve to teach others

  4. Best Practices/Outcomes • PARTNERS • Listen in the field! • Cyclical nature of projects; Learn from failure • Undergraduate students can do amazing things! IV DRIP PumanibCPAP

  5. Outcomes • Over last 6 years approximately 10% of Rice students have taken a course in the GLHT program • One technology licensed and commercialized • One life saving technology scaling up country-wide • 3-4 promising technologies in the pipeline

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