A novel engineering systems approach for bioengineering education : the MIT-Portugal collaboration

• Autor(a) principal: Tan, Junjay
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Outros Autores: Newman, Dava J., Cabral, J. M. S., Mota, M., Ponte, Manuel Nunes da
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/7322
• topic: MIT-Portugal; Bioengineering education; International education programs; Engineering systems education

This paper discusses the importance of an engineering systems approach to international bioengineering education and how a new educationalresearch program, the MIT-Portugal Program Bioengineering Systems focus area, aims to develop future global bioengineering leaders. The program, comprising both post-graduate advanced studies and doctoral programs, commences in September 2007. Several other international-collaborative educational and research programs—such as the Cambridge-MIT Institute, the Singapore MIT Alliance, and the Socrates/Erasmus “Erasmus Programme”—offer lessons learned in international collaboration. The MPP Bioengineering Systems program differs from these programs in several respects. The unique collaboration in MPP offers an engineering systems approach, a joint degree offered by three Portuguese universities, and collaborative teaching and research efforts between MIT and Portuguese faculty and students.