Student Design for People with Disabilities

[06:10534]该奖项支持杜克大学一个成功项目的延续，该项目的学生为残疾人设计和建造定制的辅助设备。设计活动的目的是加强工程教育、让学生了解康复工作、改善残疾人士的生活质素，以及服务社会。学生从事创造性的，现实世界的设计，因为他们开发独一无二的辅助，娱乐和治疗设备的客户与残疾。在这种情况下，本科生设计项目活动使用杜克大学残疾人设备教育课程，该课程在秋季和春季学期向生物医学工程专业的本科生提供。除了这一顶点设计经验，该课程还为学生提供了接触工程设计程序和道德的机会。整个项目还有助于建立和加强大学、当地社区和国家康复组织之间的联系。杜克大学设计项目活动和北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校的康复工程设计课程分享的成功的电信课堂将继续进行。工作结果将通过三个途径正式传播：1)学生在年度RESNA（北美康复工程学会）会议上的报告；2)学生在地区科技博览会会议上的演讲，以及3)年度出版物《帮助残疾人的高级工程设计项目》。这项工作最直接的社会效益将是项目客户，他们将获得定制的设备来帮助他们的日常生活。

0610534BohsThis award supports the continuation of a successful program at Duke University, in which students design and build custom assistive devices for people with disabilities. The objectives of the design activities are to enhance engineering education, provide students with insight into careers in rehabilitation, improve the quality of life of people with disabilities, and serve the community. Students undertake creative, real-world designs as they develop one-of-a-kind assistive, recreational, and therapeutic devices for clients with disabilities. In that context, the Undergraduate Design Projects activity uses the Duke University Devices for People with Disabilities educational course, which is offered to undergraduate students in Biomedical Engineering both fall and spring semesters. In addition to this capstone design experience, the course provides students with exposure to engineering design procedures and ethics. The overall program also helps establish and strengthen ties between the university, the local community, and national rehabilitation organizations. The successful telecommunications classroom shared by the Duke design projects activity and the Rehabilitation Engineering Design course at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will be continued.Results of the work will be disseminated formally through three avenues: 1) student presentations at the annual RESNA (Rehabilitation Engineering Society of North America) conference; 2) student presentations at the regional Tech Expo conference, and 3) the annual publication Engineering Senior Design Projects to Aid Persons with Disabilities. The most direct societal benefits of the proposed work will be to the project clients, who will receive custom devices to aid them in their everyday lives.