Lab Course MedInnovate Graduate Programme

by Dr. Christoph Hennersperger,Tobias Czempiel, Matthias Keicher, Prof. Nassir Navab
Julia Rackerseder, Marcus Vollrath

Type: Master Practical Course Module IN2106, Module IN2257, Module IN8021
Course Title: MedInnovate Graduate Programme - Link to TUMOnline

Programs lab course: Biomedical Computing (Master), Informatics (Master)
Programs elective course: Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, School of Management, Industrial Design
SWS: 6
ECTS: 10 Credits

Meetings: See schedule below
The course will be conducted in English.

Important Notes:

• Preliminary meeting on Friday 12-JUL-2019, 10.00 - 11.00 in room 03.13.010
• Application deadline for matching system (BMC, Computer Science, ...) 19-JUL-2019 - 24-JUL-2019

How to be part of it

Please apply for this lab course by mail in advance. We will select appropriate candidates based on their background, interests, and motivation. The notification of acceptance to the course will be distributed around the beginning of August.
Final application deadline is 29-SEP-2019!
For application send the following documents to application@medinnovate.eu

• CV
• up to date score sheet
• motivation letter (max 1.5 pages), answering the following questions
  • Which learnings from your previous team and project experiences would you contribute and transfer to the program?
  • You should have basic knowledge and understanding of medical technology. Describe it shortly. If you have no experience in this field, which knowledge and expertise can you bring to the team to be successful?
  • What is your motivation to take part in the MedInnovate program? What is the main goal you want to reach at the end of this semester?
  • Industrial design students, additionally please send some suitable working examples.

What is MedInnovate?

Do you want to find out about medical innovation? Do you want to develop a concept that can solve a clinical need? Do you want to find a good idea for a start-up company?

Then you should join MedInnovate, a hands-on seminar where you learn how to successfully identify unmet clinical needs within the clinical routine and work towards possible and realistic solutions to solve those needs. You get to know tools helping you to be a successful innovator in medical technology. This includes all steps from needs finding and selection to defining appropriate solution concepts, including the development of first prototypes. During the course, necessary steps for successful idea and concept creation are presented and fully realized in interdisciplinary project teams. During the project phase, each team is supported by coaches from academia, industry and medicine, in order to allow for direct and continuous exchange.

Course Features

• Work in interdisciplinary teams.
• Spend a minimum of three full days in full clinical immersion, identifying unmet needs.
• Get training by UnternehmerTUM tutors about coordinated brain storming, needs identification, needs selection and concept generation.
• Build your first prototype, with support from UnternehmerTUM MakerSpace.

For more details about the course and our project MedInnovate please visit the project webpage: http://campar.in.tum.de/Chair/ProjectMedInnovate

Who should participate?

We accept and encourage students of all disciplines to join for this lab course. Focusing on medical technology and applications to the clinical routine, we anticipate a broad field of studies as main audience, including:

• Computer scientists
• Engineers of any kind
• Biologists, chemists, physicists
• Business administration and economics students
• Industrial Designers

Students should have basic knowledge and understanding of medical technology, with an interest in innovation within the field. Due to the interdisciplinarity of project teams, skills within the respective area of specialty will be required throughout the progress of the lab course. We encourage students to work pro-actively with exchange within, but also across the borders of the teams.

Passing requirements

• Active participation and presence in all workshops and meetings
• Submission of all assignments in time
• Presentation of intermediate and final concept work.

Collaborating Medical Departments

• Urologische Klinik und Poliklinik der Technischen Universität München - Klinikum Rechts der Isar
• Vascular Surgery - Helios Kliniken München-West
• Further clinical partners tba

Course Phases

Period	Working Phase
30.10 - 03.12	Needs evaluation and ideation
30.01.2020	MedInnovate Winter Symposium
27.11 - 17.12	Prototyping and validation
21.10 - 12.11	Clinical immersion - observation in practice and daily routine
14.10, 15.10, 16.10	MedInnovate tools at hand (workshops)

Schedule

Date	Topic	Conducted by	Location	Materials
Friday 12-JUL-2019, 10.00 - 11.00	Preliminary meeting ("Vorbesprechung")	Course Tutors	03.13.010
Monday 14-Oct-2019, 09:00 - 21:00	Workshop Day 1 - get-together afterwards (mandatory)	Course Tutors	Room 0999
Tuesday 15-Oct-2019, 09:00 - 17:00	Workshop Day 2	Course Tutors	Room 0999
Wednesday 16-Oct-2019, 09:00 - 17:00	Workshop Day 3	Course Tutors	Room 0999
Wednesday 30-Oct-2019, 12:30 - 16:30	Informal Update	Course Tutors	TranslaTUM Kl. Auditorium
Wednesday 06-Nov-2019, 15:00 - 17:30	Informal Update	Course Tutors	werner-eckert-straße 2 Konica Minolta Laboratory Europe
Wednesday 06-Nov-2019, 17:30 - 19:30	Presentation Training	Course Tutors	werner-eckert-straße 2 Konica Minolta Laboratory Europe
Wednesday 13-Nov-2019, 12:30 - 16:30	Presentation - Front runner needs	Course Tutors	TranslaTUM Gr. Auditorium
Wednesday 20-Nov-2019, 12:30 - 16:30	Informal Update & Regulatory lecture	Course Tutors & Beatrice Demiray	TranslaTUM Kl. Auditorium
Wednesday 27-Nov-2019, 13:00 - 16:30	Informal Update	Course Tutors	Hörsaal A
Wednesday 04-Dec-2019, 12:30 - 16:30	Presentation - Front runner concept	Course Tutors	TranslaTUM Kl. Auditorium
Wednesday 11-Dec-2019, 12:30 - 16:30	Informal Update	Course Tutors	TranslaTUM Kl. Auditorium
Wednesday 18-Dec-2019, 12:30 - 16:30	Presentation - Final Concept	Course Tutors	TranslaTUM Kl. Auditorium
Wednesday 08-Jan-2020, 12:30 - 16:30	Informal Update	Course Tutors	TranslaTUM Kl. Auditorium
Wednesday 15-Jan-2020, 12:30 - 16:30	Informal Update	Course Tutors	TranslaTUM Gr. Auditorium
Wednesday 22-Jan-2020, 12:30 - 16:30	Presentatation - Pitch perfect - Second Final with Individual sessions	Course Tutors	TranslaTUM Kl. Auditorium
Thursday 30-Jan-2020, 18:00 - 23:00	MedInnovate Winter Symposium	Course Tutors, Experts, Friends & Family	Marsstraße lecture hall
Wednesday 05-Feb-2020, 12:30 - 16:30	What's next	Course Tutors	werner-eckert-straße 2 Konica Minolta Laboratory Europe

Literature and Resources

Innovation projects

• Stanford BioDesign program