The main portion of the grant will be paid in two installments, the first at the time of the award and the second midway through the grant period, contingent on satisfactory progress. Authors may negotiate their own publishing contracts, but the selection of the publisher is subject to foundation approval. The scope of some proposals might go beyond a single award under the Teaching Materials Program. Topics Biomedical engineering integrates engineering and the life sciences to define and solve biomedical problems. This is the premise upon which any new textbook in biomedical engineering should be based.
Biological systems pose unique engineering problems.
Manuscripts should begin with questions raised by biological systems and then introduce engineering principles in the context of these questions. This approach will focus on issues unique to the field of biomedical engineering. It will also motivate students to attack problems in medicine and biology from an appropriately integrated perspective, that of a biomedical engineer. Toward that end, it is imperative that manuscripts include illustrative examples and appropriate homework problems. Nine initial topics have been identified.