Senior Design Projects: Devices to Aid People with Disabilities

高级设计项目：帮助残疾人的设备

• 批准号: 0527358
• 负责人: Elizabeth DeBartolo
• 金额: $ 12.06万
• 依托单位: Rochester Institute of Tech
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-09-01 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0527358&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Senior; Design; Projects; Devices; Aid

0527358BartoloRochester Institute of Technology's Kate Gleason College of Engineering will work with members of the Rochester community to develop 10 annual Undergraduate Senior Design project ideas that will provide fourth and fifth-year students with a valuable design-and-build capstone experience while improving the lives of area individuals with disabilities. The initial projects include two workplace adaptations, one recreational facility, three devices to enhance independent transportation, two devices to prevent potentially serious injury or infection, and two devices to improve general quality of life.Intellectual Merit: A team of at least four students will work for two full academic quarters on each project, amounting to the equivalent of one full-time engineer working for nearly a year. Because students from three departments - Electrical, Industrial, and Mechanical Engineering work together in the experiential learning course, the scope of the projects can be significantly more comprehensive than the scope for a single-discipline course. The projects will require students to perform significant analysis and design work to meet the specific needs of each particular consumer. Students will be challenged to make use of the technical skills they have learned to create new and innovative products.Broader Impact: Over the 5-years life of the project, at least 200 undergraduate students will directly participate in this effort. The lessons they will learn in the design and implementation of projects focused to enhance quality of life for individuals with disabilities will be disseminated by the Principal Investigators to other undergraduate focused colleges and universities through presentations at national conferences.

bartolochester理工学院的Kate Gleason工程学院将与Rochester社区的成员一起开发10个年度本科高年级设计项目的想法，这将为四年级和五年级的学生提供宝贵的设计和建造的顶点经验，同时改善该地区残疾人的生活。最初的项目包括两个工作场所改造，一个娱乐设施，三个增强独立交通的设备，两个防止潜在严重伤害或感染的设备，以及两个提高总体生活质量的设备。智力优势：至少四名学生组成的团队将在每个项目上工作两个完整的学期，相当于一名全职工程师工作近一年。由于来自电气、工业和机械工程三个系的学生在体验式学习课程中一起工作，因此项目的范围比单一学科课程的范围要全面得多。这些项目将要求学生进行重要的分析和设计工作，以满足每个特定消费者的具体需求。学生们将面临挑战，利用他们所学到的技术技能来创造新的和创新的产品。更广泛的影响：在项目5年的生命周期中，至少有200名本科生将直接参与这项工作。他们将在设计和实施旨在提高残疾人生活质量的项目中吸取的经验教训，将由首席研究员通过在国家会议上的演讲，传播给其他以本科生为重点的学院和大学。