Engineering Student Design Projects to Aid Persons with Disabilities

9631744这项提议是亚利桑那州立大学在过去六年中成功实施的项目高级设计方案的延续。该项目以自下而上的康复方法为中心，要求参与者直接与客户互动；这允许学生第一手了解客户的需求，并乐于接受建议，从而产生双方对最终产品的自豪感和主人翁意识。向学生传达的另一种理念是，开发可由客户及其管理员轻松维护的“符合文化”的解决方案。每年将征集15个高级设计项目，以设计帮助残疾人的原型设备。一名研究生将作为联络人，在亚利桑那州立大学的生物医学工程项目与服务和/或支持残疾人的周边社区之间建立和保持持续的联系。通过这种联系，将产生该计划的想法和可行的项目。然后，每个被选中参加的高级设计学生将通过研究生联络人与协调临床医生和特定的残疾人士建立联系，并与该人合作生成设备的设计规范，以满足该个人的特定需求。学生将设计、制造、交付和评估一个原型设备，以帮助个人提高独立性。每年暑假将支持两名本科生跟踪每个客户，对设备进行必要的修改和完善，以确保设备实际可供客户使用，并培训学生有关帮助残疾人的生物医疗设备的质量控制和定制服务。***

9631744 Yamaguchi This proposal is a continuation of a program senior design project program which has been successfully implemented over the past six years at ASU. The program centers on a "bottom-up" approach to rehabilitation which requires the participants to interact directly with their clients; this permits the students to learn the needs of the client first-hand and to be open to suggestions, resulting in a sense of pride and ownership in the final products for both parties. Another philosophy conveyed to the students is the idea of developing "culturally appropriate" solutions which can be easily maintained by the clients and their caretakers. Fifteen senior design projects will be solicited each year to design prototype devices to aid persons with disabilities. A graduate student will act as a liaison to establish and maintain continuous connection between the biomedical engineering program at ASU and surrounding communities serving and/or supporting persons with disabilities. The ideas and feasible projects for the program will be generated through this connection. Each senior design student selected to participate will then establish contact, via the graduate liaison, with coordinating clinicians and a specific person with a disability, and work together with that person to generate the design specifications of the device to meet the specific need of that individual. The student will design, build, deliver and evaluate a prototype device to aid the individual in improving independence. Two undergraduate students will be supported each summer to follow up with each client to make necessary modification and completion to the device, which will ensure that the device can actually be used by the client, and train the students on quality control and custom service for biomedical devices aiding persons with disabilities. ***