Student Design Projects for People with Disabilities at Duke University

杜克大学学生为残疾人士设计项目

• 批准号: 0967221
• 负责人: Marc Sommer
• 金额: $ 12.49万
• 依托单位: Duke University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-01 至 2016-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0967221&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Student; Design; Projects; People; Disabilities

PI: Bohs, Laurence N. and Caves, KevinProposal Number: 0967221This proposal requests support for the Devices for People with Disabilities program in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University, in which students design and build custom devices for people with disabilities. The main objectives of this program are to enhance engineering education, improve the quality of life of persons with disabilities, and serve the community. Students will participate in a creative, real-world design experience as they develop one-of-a-kind assistive, recreational, and therapeutic devices. In the process, they will learn formal engineering design methods, gain exposure to ethical issues in engineering, improve communication skills and raise their awareness of disability issues 70 projects will be designed and delivered with support from this grant, involving approximately 250 student designers, a substantial annual increase over the past grant period. The client feedback process initiated during the last three years will be expanded to include quantitative measures based on the Quebec User Evaluation of Satisfaction with assistive Technology (QUEST). New assessment tools will be developed to maximize the impact of student experiences and to improve feedback between students and clients. Students will create professional-quality videos of their projects, which will be incorporated into the course web site to provide a thorough demonstration of project operation and to increase dissemination of their designs. Intellectual Merit of the Proposed Activity The PI and course instructors have over 40 combined years of experience in rehabilitation engineering and teaching student design. During the past 13 years, they have supervised over 250 students in completing more than 100 projects for clients with disabilities in the Raleigh-Durham regional area. Strengths of this program include the record of success in delivering the proposed number of projects, and the focus on follow-up support to keep devices in service after delivery. Prototyping facilities at Duke University have improved substantially during the past grant period, with a new student machine shop and full-time machinist dedicated to student projects in the Pratt School of Engineering. These facilities will enhance the students' hands-on experiences, giving them greater ownership of their projects and applied knowledge on methods of fabrication. Outcomes from the proposed projects will be novel devices meeting needs of persons with disabilities not met by commercial products. The overall program will establish and strengthen ties between the university, the local community, and individuals working in the fields of assistive technology and rehabilitation both regionally and nationally. Broader Impacts of the Proposed Activity The proposed activity will train undergraduate students in a formal design procedure as applied to real-world, open-ended design problems. Students will incorporate universal design methods wherever possible to maximize the applicability of their designs. Persons with disabilities will be integrated into the activities both by being clients for projects, and also by sharing their experiences with students during in-class discussions. Students will disseminate the results of their work to the larger community through: 1) presentations at the annual RESNA conference; 2) presentations at the regional Assistive Technology Expo conference; and 3) project descriptions in the annual NSF publication on Student Design Projects to Aid Persons with Disabilities. In addition, students building projects for local partner OE Enterprises will enter the design competition for the NISH National Scholar Award for Workplace Innovation and Design. The proposed work will benefit society by providing custom devices for the project clients, creating and disseminating designs applicable to other persons with disabilities, and by inspiring students to serve humanity in their careers. Student projects will be selected from numerous contacts in the Durham/Raleigh/Chapel Hill area, including occupational and physical therapists, special education teachers, medical doctors, and local rehabilitation centers and community organizations. Because projects will be drawn from many sources, the client pool will encompass a broad range of persons with disabilities. A particular focus in this grant period will be to work with therapists in the Durham schools to identify minority students with disabilities who will benefit from custom assistive technology.

PI：Bohs，Laurence N.和Caves，KevinProposal Number：0967221该提案请求支持杜克大学生物医学工程系的残疾人设备项目，该项目的学生为残疾人设计和制造定制设备。该方案的主要目标是加强工程教育，提高残疾人的生活质量，并为社区服务。学生将参与一个创造性的，真实世界的设计经验，因为他们开发的一类辅助，娱乐和治疗设备之一。在这个过程中，他们将学习正式的工程设计方法，接触工程中的道德问题，提高沟通技巧，提高他们对残疾问题的认识70个项目将被设计和交付与此补助金的支持，涉及约250名学生设计师，在过去的补助金期间，每年大幅增加。将扩大过去三年中启动的客户反馈程序，以包括基于魁北克用户对辅助技术满意度评价的量化措施。将开发新的评估工具，以最大限度地发挥学生体验的影响，并改善学生和客户之间的反馈。学生将创建他们的项目，这将被纳入课程的网站，以提供一个项目操作的全面演示，并增加他们的设计传播的专业质量的视频。建议活动的智力价值PI和课程导师在康复工程和教学学生设计方面拥有超过40年的经验。在过去的13年里，他们已经监督超过250名学生完成了100多个项目，为客户的残疾人在罗利达勒姆地区。该计划的优势包括成功交付拟议项目数量的记录，以及专注于后续支持，以保持设备在交付后的服务。在过去的赠款期间，杜克大学的原型设施有了很大的改善，一个新的学生机械车间和全职机械师致力于普拉特工程学院的学生项目。这些设施将增强学生的实践经验，使他们对自己的项目和制造方法的应用知识拥有更大的自主权。拟议项目的成果将是满足商业产品无法满足的残疾人需求的新型设备。整个计划将建立和加强大学，当地社区和个人在区域和国家的辅助技术和康复领域工作之间的联系。拟议的活动的更广泛的影响拟议的活动将培训本科生在一个正式的设计程序，适用于现实世界，开放式的设计问题。学生将尽可能采用通用设计方法，以最大限度地提高其设计的适用性。残疾人将通过成为项目的客户以及在课堂讨论中与学生分享他们的经验来融入活动。学生将通过以下方式向更大的社区传播他们的工作成果：1）在年度RESNA会议上的演讲; 2）在区域辅助技术博览会会议上的演讲;以及3）在年度NSF出版物中的项目描述学生设计项目，以帮助残疾人。此外，为当地合作伙伴OE企业建设项目的学生将参加NISH工作场所创新和设计国家学者奖的设计竞赛。拟议的工作将造福社会，为项目客户提供定制设备，创造和传播适用于其他残疾人的设计，并激励学生在职业生涯中为人类服务。学生项目将从达勒姆/罗利/查佩尔山地区的众多联系人中选出，包括职业和物理治疗师，特殊教育教师，医生以及当地康复中心和社区组织。由于项目将来自许多来源，客户群将包括广泛的残疾人。在此赠款期间的一个特别重点将是与达勒姆学校的治疗师合作，以确定少数民族残疾学生谁将受益于定制辅助技术。