Senior Design Projects Developing Assistive Technology at San Diego State University

这个建议建立在教育学院和工程学院在辅助技术领域的成功关系之上。每年将成立约10个本科高级设计团队，开发辅助技术，以改善残疾人在就业、教育、娱乐和独立寻路方面的接触、融合和生活质量。通过将本科工程师与康复技术项目成员、专业工程志愿者以及残疾用户组成团队，我们的多学科方法有望产生稳健、合适和有效的设计。这种长期的、以团队为基础的设计项目是SDSU工程专业学生的终极学习经历，也是他们成长为合格工程师的关键部分。此次合作的总体目标是开发技术解决方案，使残疾人能够安全、独立地参与各种娱乐、职业、教育和其他活动。该计划的具体目标是设计辅助技术或设备，以满足特定个人的需求，使他们能够参与娱乐，旅行或其他活动；教授由工程专业学生、康复技术专业学生和残疾人组成的多学科团队共同解决问题；通过学生竞赛、演讲和发表的报告传播设计，监测和收集设备用户的反馈，以便建立一个设计指南库，传递给其他参与未来设计项目的学生。

CBET-0649998 May-Newman This proposal builds on a successful relationship between the Colleges of Education and Engineering in the area of assistive technology. About 10 undergraduate senior design teams will be formed each year to develop assistive technology to improve access, integration and quality of life for persons with disabilities to employment, education, recreation, and independent wayfinding. By teaming the undergraduate engineers with members from the rehabilitation technology program, professional engineering volunteers, as well as the disabled users, our multidisciplinary approach is expected to yield robust, suitable, and effective designs. This type of longer-term, team-based design project is the culminating capstone learning experience for SDSU engineering students, and a critical part of their development into competent engineers. The overall goal of this partnership is to develop technology solutions to allow physically challenged individuals to safely and independently participate in various recreational, vocational, educational and other activities. The specific objectives of this program are to design assistive technology or equipment that addressees the needs of specific individuals to enable their participation in a recreational, travel or other activity; teach multidisciplinary teams of engineering students, rehabilitation technology students, and disabled individuals to solve problems collectively; disseminate the designs through student competitions, presentations and the published reports, monitor and gather feedback from the users of the equipment in order to build a library of design guidelines to pass on to other students involved in future design projects.