Undergraduate Bioengineering Design Projects

[01:19 . 39]这个项目的目标是：(1)鼓励电气、机械、计算机工程和联合健康专业的本科学生进行康复工程方面的高年级设计项目，(2)将这些设计项目的重点放在患有骨科和/或神经肌肉残疾的特定个体的需求上。学生来自联合健康系、职业治疗系和电气工程系，以及来自机械、工业和计算机工程系的选修课程注册者。预计在三年的计划中，每年将完成7个设计项目。客户已经确定在大密尔沃基地区谁将从拟议的高级设计项目中受益。该计划的意义在于：(1)在教育发展的形成阶段，让本科工程专业的学生接触康复工程领域，可能会使他们对这一专业在康复环境中的作用敏感；（II）让职业治疗学生更深入地了解辅助技术设备的性能特征，以便他们能够确定残疾人对设备的要求；（三）通过组建由工科学生和OT学生组成的小型设计小组，工科学生可以掌握有效提出和解决问题所必需的生理和功能限制；（四）联合健康的学生应该学习为什么某些工程组件被使用，并获得与辅助技术供应商打交道所需的知识；（五）为解决身体缺陷所带来的限制做出贡献的学生将获得奖励；（六）委托人将受益于拥有能够实现独立、潜在就业或完成学业的专业技术。

0119392EzenwaThe objectives of this project are: (1) to encourage undergraduate electrical, mechanical, computer engineering, and Allied Health students to conduct senior-year design projects in rehabilitation engineering, and (2) to focus such design projects towards the needs of specific individuals with orthopedic and/or neuromuscular disabilities. Students are recruited from the class rosters of the Departments of Allied Health, Occupational Therapy (OT), and Electrical Engineering, and elective course registrants from the mechanical, industrial and computer engineering departments. It is expected that 7 design projects will be completed each year of the three year program. Clients have been identified in the greater Milwaukee area who would benefit from the proposed senior design projects. The significance of the program is (I) exposing undergraduate engineering students to the field of rehabilitation engineering at a formative stage in their educational development might sensitize them towards the role of this profession in a rehabilitation setting; (II) exposing occupational therapy students to more in-depth characteristics of assistive technology device performance in order for them to be able to determine demands imposed on a device by a person with a disability; (III) by forming small design groups that comprise engineering and OT students, engineering students may grasp the physiologic and functional limitations necessary for effective problem formulation and solution; (IV) the students from Allied Health should learn why certain engineering components are used and to acquire the knowledge necessary to deal with vendors of assistive technology; (V) the students will be rewarded in contributing towards solving limitations imposed by physical impairments, and; (VI) the client will benefit by having the specialized technology that could enable independence, potential employment, or completion of schooling.