Team MEDS Multidisciplinary Engineering Design Students, Projects to Aid Persons with Disabilities

MEDS 团队多学科工程设计学生，援助残疾人项目

• 批准号: 0729870
• 负责人: Margaret Slattery
• 金额: $ 12.5万
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-01 至 2014-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0729870&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Team; MEDS; Multidisciplinary; Engineering; Design

0729870 SmithThe goal of this program is to facilitate the multidisciplinary design team experience for undergraduate engineering students within the context of a biomedical engineering design project. The healthcare industry will provide some of the most formidable technological challenges for career engineers and future scientists. Medical engineering design stands to be an important vehicle to meet these challenges to aid persons with physical challenges. The objectives of this proposal are to initially identify specific persons with disabilities (physical or mental) in the State College, Pennsylvania and surrounding area with needs which can be overcome or reduced through specially engineered devices or software. Multidisciplinary engineering senior design teams (e.g. Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Bioengineering and Engineering Science and Mechanics) of 4-5 students will be organized specifically to design devices which facilitate motion or mobility which cannot be accomplished with off-the-shelf commercial medical products. Engineering Design Teams will be matched with the rehabilitation project based on desire and background necessary to accomplish the design. After meeting with the clinicians and patient, the engineering teams will outline a proposal indicating such items as the design objectives, design approach with alternatives, deliverables, milestones, timetable and budget. For the students, this project will promote hand-on discovery-based learning through the engineering design experience. Students will gain real-world engineering experiences such as communication skills at several levels (i.e. to other engineers, clinicians and patients). Critical assessment of this service-learning project will be performed. Overall the teams will understand the impact of engineering solutions in an ethical, economic and societal context and inspire the students to participate as the next generation of medical engineers within a global perspective.

0729870史密斯该计划的目标是促进生物医学工程设计项目的背景下，本科工程专业学生的多学科设计团队的经验。医疗保健行业将为职业工程师和未来的科学家提供一些最艰巨的技术挑战。医学工程设计是一个重要的工具，以满足这些挑战，以帮助人们的身体挑战。 该提案的目标是初步确定宾夕法尼亚州立大学及周边地区的特定残疾人（身体或精神残疾），其需求可以通过专门设计的设备或软件来克服或减少。由4-5名学生组成的多学科工程高级设计团队（例如机械工程，电气工程，计算机科学与工程，工业与制造工程，生物工程和工程科学与力学）将专门设计促进运动或移动的设备，这些设备无法用现成的商业医疗产品实现。 工程设计团队将根据完成设计所需的愿望和背景与修复项目相匹配。在与临床医生和患者会面后，工程团队将概述一份建议书，说明设计目标、设计方法（含备选方案）、可交付成果、里程碑、时间表和预算等项目。 对于学生来说，这个项目将通过工程设计经验促进基于实践发现的学习。学生将获得现实世界的工程经验，如沟通技巧在几个层次（即其他工程师，临床医生和患者）。将对这一服务学习项目进行严格评估。总的来说，团队将了解工程解决方案在伦理，经济和社会背景下的影响，并激励学生在全球范围内作为下一代医学工程师参与。