Undergraduate Student Design Projects to Aid Persons with Disabilities

这个奖项为亚利桑那州立大学(亚利桑那州立大学)根据国家科学基金会奖#9631744开始的设计项目活动提供支持，在这些活动中，学生们为残疾人设计和建造定制项目。活动的目的是加强工程教育，让学生了解生物医学工程的职业，改善残疾人士的生活质素，以及服务社会。在亚利桑那州立大学过去12年的设计项目活动中，成功完成了109个设计项目，并培训了115名本科生基本设计原理。设计项目的活动被组织起来，以便在亚利桑那州立大学的环境中成功地工作。学生残疾资源(DRS)为亚利桑那州立大学校园内数百名精神和身体残疾的学生提供住宿，将与学生工程师的工作紧密结合。每年将与DRS一起进行10个高级设计项目，以开发原型设备。根据该计划，两名本科生暑期实习生将得到支持，在DRS兼职，为实习工程师制定一份合适的项目清单。研究生将通过帮助本科生设计团队和培养亚利桑那州立大学与附近社区之间的新联系来帮助管理该项目，以服务和/或支持残疾人。这个项目是每年引进10到20名新工程师来解决残疾人面临的日常问题。此外，残疾人社区将作为设计顾问直接参与，从而增加代表人数不足的群体对活动的参与。

0221597YamaguchiThis award provides support to continue Design Projects' activities begun under NSF award #9631744 at Arizona State University (ASC) in which students designed and built custom projects for people with disabilities. The objectives of the activities are to enhance engineering education, provide students with insight into careers in biomedical engineering, improve the quality of life of people with disabilities, and serve the community. The past 12 years of design projects activity at ASU led to the successful completion of 109 design projects and training of 115 undergraduate students in basic design principles. The design projects' activity is structured to work successfully within the environment of ASU. Disability Resources for Students (DRS), which provides accommodations for hundreds of mentally and physically disabled students on the ASU campus, will be closely integrated with the student engineers' work. Ten senior design projects are to be pursued each year in conjunction with DRS to develop the prototype devices. Two undergraduate summer interns are to be supported under the program to work part-time at DRS to develop a listing of appropriate projects for the student engineers. A graduate student is to assist in administering the program by helping the undergraduate design teams and fostering new connections between ASU and nearby communities to serve and/or support persons with disabilities. This project is to introduce 10 to 20 new engineers each year to the daily problems faced by the disabled. Additionally, the disabled community will be directly involved as design consultants and thereby increase the participation of an underrepresented group in the activity.