Design Projects: Student projects in rehabilitation engineering

PI: Goldberg, Richard l .提案号：096657目标：这门名为“康复工程设计”的课程的目标包括以下内容：为学生提供实际的工程经验，运用他们的技术知识，培养他们的口头交流和技术写作技能；为学生提供有益的个人体验；帮助残疾人变得更加独立。方法：项目创意来自卫生保健专业人员，他们被招募来帮助监督他们提出的项目。几个工程学院仔细检查每个项目的想法，以确保它适合本课程。学生们花一整个学期的时间来完成他们的项目，在学期结束时，他们将定制的设备和用户手册免费交给客户。课程内容包括工程设计、伦理、通讯、产品安全及修复工程等相关主题的讲座及讨论。学生们还通过演讲和技术写作培养了更好的沟通技巧。新计划：虽然班级的基本结构在下一个资助期将保持不变，但将有新的计划来改善结果。信息技术将以创新的方式应用于改进项目评估、学生写作和临床评估。智力优势：每个学生项目都是技术的独特应用，并寻求满足现有商业产品无法满足的需求。在这个过程中，学生们发展了各种技能，包括技术、项目管理和沟通技巧。他们通过整个学期与客户和他们的医疗保健提供者合作获得临床经验。我们的大多数学生继续在生物医学工程研究生课程或医学院学习，所以这种临床经验对他们的智力成长特别有价值。PI在开发辅助技术方面有12年的经验。更广泛的影响：这个项目对学生和社区中的个人都有重大影响。学生将研究和设计技能与他们的教育背景结合起来，开发满足客户需求的定制设备。他们在教育上和个人上都受益于这个在社区为残疾人士服务的机会。该计划还影响了从学生那里收到定制设备的人，因为这些客户将直接受益于他们通过使用定制设备获得的独立性。这个项目的成果通过提交给全国学生设计竞赛、会议演讲和在美国国家科学基金会关于残疾人高级设计项目的年度书籍中广泛传播。

PI: Goldberg, Richard L.Proposal Number: 0966571Objectives: The objectives of this class, called "Rehabilitation Engineering Design", include the following: to provide the students with a practical engineering experience that uses their technical knowledge and develops their oral communication and technical writing skills; to provide a personally rewarding experience to students; and to help individuals with disabilities become more independent. Methods: Project ideas come from health care professionals, who are enlisted to help supervise the projects they propose. Several engineering faculty closely examine each project idea to ensure it is appropriate for the class. Students spend the entire semester working on their project, and at the end of the semester, they give the custom device and a user's manual to the clients, free of charge. The class includes lectures and discussions on related topics, such as engineering design, ethics, communication, product safety, and rehabilitation engineering. Students also develop better communication skills through presentations and technical writing. New initiatives: While the basic structure of the class will remain the same in the next grant period, there will be new initiatives to improve outcomes. Information technology will be applied in innovate ways to improve project evaluation, student writing, and clinical assessment. Intellectual merit: Each student project is a unique application of technology, and seeks to meet a need that is not satisfied by existing commercial products. In the process, students develop a variety of skills, including technical, project management, and communication skills. They gain clinical experience by working with the client and their health care provider throughout the semester. Most of our students continue their studies in Biomedical Engineering graduate programs or medical school, so this clinical experience is particularly valuable to their intellectual growth. The PI has 12 yeas of experience in developing assistive technology. Broader impacts: This program has a significant impact on the students as well as on individuals in the community. The students integrate research and design skills with their educational background to develop custom devices that address the needs of their clients. They benefit educationally and personally from this opportunity to do service-learning work in the community for people with disabilities. This program also impacts the people who receive custom devices from the students, as these clients will directly benefit from the independence they gain by using their custom device. Results from the program are widely disseminated through submission to national student design competitions, conference presentations, and publication in the annual NSF book of senior design projects for people with disabilities.