Elaine Marieb Center for Nursing and Engineering Innovation

About Elaine Marieb Center for Nursing and Engineering Innovation

The Elaine Marieb Center for Nursing and Engineering Innovation at UMass Amherst represents one of the most exciting and promising interdisciplinary partnerships on campus. The center will bring substantial innovations and scalable solutions to the world’s most pressing health care problems. As its name suggests, it unites the world-class capacities of the College of Nursing (ranked in the top 9% among peers nationally) with the deep and wide-ranging expertise of the College of Engineering (ranked the #1 such program in New England and in the top 16% nationally) so that the untapped potential of nurses as healthcare innovation leaders can be realized and the ability of engineers to understand the needs of medical end-users can be enhanced. From developing new medical technologies, to improving operating processes within a variety of patient care settings, the center is one of the first of its kind to attempt a formal and deliberate alliance between these two fields Our Mission: Untap the unique insights of nurses and engineers to address healthcare challenges at the forefront of patient care Forge new pathways in interdisciplinary research and education to create an open forum for sharing and learning Empower nurses and engineers to lead healthcare innovation for a healthier and more equitable future The Nurse-Engineer Approach: A powerful bidirectional real-time collaboration to identify healthcare problems, iterate potential solutions, evaluate outcomes, and balance tradeoffs to optimize system performance and patient care