Elaine Marieb Center for Nursing and Engineering Innovation announces 2024 Pilot Project awardees
Four year-long pilot projects were awarded.
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Students gather around a nursing and engineering demonstration at the 2022 symposium.
Each year, as part of the Elaine Marieb Center for Nursing and Engineering Innovation’s mission to promote healthcare innovation, the Center awards Pilot Grants to UMass faculty teams that use collaborative, interdisciplinary nurse-engineer research to discover and fill gaps in effective healthcare products and processes. This year, four year-long pilot projects were awarded addressing a diverse range of topics that highlight the unique contributions of nursing and engineering teams. This year’s projects are focused on nursing workload, the connection between health and local farming, new methods to measure actual IV pump flow rates, and the development of novel polymers in patient warming devices.