[Bioundgrd] HST572: What a student intern in biomedical engineering needs to know

[Janice Chang]

The following course is open to advanced undergraduates with 
instructor permission.

>From:
>Amy Magiera
>Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
>Academic Office, E25-518
>77 Massachusetts Avenue
>Cambridge, MA  02139
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>Phone: 617-258-7084
>Fax: 617-253-6692
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>    HEADS UP!
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>     WHAT A STUDENT INTERN IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING NEEDS TO KNOW
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>                 Spring 2005 Seminar Course:  HST.572
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>If you are interested in an internship in biomedical engineering you
>should consider taking our seminar-based course that brings in
>entrepreneurs, engineers, lawyers and investors to discuss what's
>important, based on their own experience.
>
>Topics include:
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>    *  Legal issues for students
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>    *  Intellectual property law
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>    *  Evaluating medical technologies
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>    *  Entrepreneurship
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>    *  University intellectual property licensing
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>    *  Strategic uses of intellectual property
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>The second half of the course focuses on a single, outstanding medical
>problem, bringing in medical doctors, scientists, engineers, venture
>capitalists and entrepreneurs.  This year we are planning something
>along the lines of "care and feeding of joints...the challenges and
>opportunities surrounding knee deterioration."
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>The course will meet Wednesdays at 6:00 - 7:30PM at MIT.  Two short
>papers and lots of class participation expected.  No final exam.
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>For more information contact:
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>James C. Weaver
>Course Head
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>16-319
>HST Biomedical Engineering Center
>Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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>617-253-4194   jcw at mit.edu
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