Louisiana Tech RAPD Senior Design Program

路易斯安那理工学院 RAPD 高级设计项目

• 批准号: 1034100
• 负责人: Dennis O'Neal
• 金额: $ 12.5万
• 依托单位: Louisiana Tech 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=1034100&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Louisiana; Tech; RAPD; Senior; Design

PI: O?Neal, Dennis and Shipp, MichaelProposal Number: 1034100The objective of the NSF RAPD program supporting undergraduate design projects is to partner a student engineer's education and need for a meaningful senior design experience with specific persons with disabilities needing a custom designed device. The team's previous experience of collaboration will enable this proposed program to be structured within the collaborative environment of Louisiana Tech University (Tech) in Ruston, LA. This proposed project will expand the ongoing senior design collaboration between the Biomedical Engineering Program and the Center for Rehabilitation, Engineering, Science and Technology (CREST) to the mechanical, electrical, and multidisciplinary engineering programs. CREST has provided rehabilitative services for the entire state of Louisiana primarily through agreements with Louisiana Rehabilitation Services, and available clients will be screened to be potential participants in the student design projects, as has been the case for the last four academic years. Previous projects will be evaluated and new projects will be screened at the Tech RAPD conference each September, and evaluated and disseminated to the community at the existing Tech Senior Design conference each May. The managed integration with CREST with the BIEN, MEEN, ELEN, and MDSD senior design programs will focus on a team and project selection process, a series of formal training seminars, structured mentoring, FDA-based design review, formative and summative evaluation, and dissemination. The Tech team has come to appreciate that the practical training that the students receive about the iterative process of engineering design is easier to learn outside the classroom. The students learn to identify, in the native environment, the needs of their clients which are not always clear at the outset in academic examples. It is the experience of the team that this motivates the students to an extent which is difficult in a purely academic setting. The clients also feel a special altruism as they have the opportunity to mold young engineers via projects which engender a unique sense of pride and co-ownership.Intellectual Merit of the Proposed Activity: The proposal will provide a unique senior design training program to provide customized devices to CREST clients within the multidisciplinary environment in the Tech College of Engineering and Science. This program will build on the NSF funded Integrated Science curriculum, the Integrated Engineering curriculum, and the more recent multi-disciplinary senior design experience. The ideas and feasible projects will be generated and evaluated through collaboration with CREST and will be presented at the Tech RAPD and the Senior Design conferences each academic year and disseminated on websites, around the state, and at regional/national conferences. The requirement for quantitative engineering analysis is built into the year-long senior design sequence, and must be performed during specification formation, during a formal prototype design review, and at the end of the academic year by the respective advisory boards at the Tech Senior Design Conference.Broader Impacts: We expect the impact of this program to be very high profile, especially in the regional environment. Given the desperate need for engineers, especially women and minorities, in the 21st century, this program will greatly enhance the visibility of undergraduate engineers in the state and local region communicating the important and personally fulfilling role that engineers play in society. The project will help produce 15 to 24 engineers each year and provide formative exposure to the iterative design process, real-world constraints, clients and patients, and the CREST technical and engineering staff which is over half female and minority. Given the broad range of careers that Tech's students pursue related to the medical device, consumer technology, and biotechnology industries, this opportunity will give them a breadth of experience that will reap life-long benefits. The resulting products will be broadly disseminated, potential engineering students will become motivated, and persons with disabilities will serve as design consultants providing a lasting benefit to society.

PI：O？Neal，Dennis and Shipp，MichaelProposal Number：1034100The objective of the NSF RAPD program supporting undergraduate design projects is to partner a student engineer's education and need for a significant senior design experience with specific persons with disabilities needed a custom designed device.该团队以前的合作经验将使这个拟议的计划在路易斯安那州拉斯顿的路易斯安那理工大学（科技）的合作环境中进行结构化。该项目将扩大生物医学工程项目和康复，工程，科学和技术中心（CREST）之间正在进行的高级设计合作，以机械，电气和多学科工程项目。CREST主要通过与路易斯安那州康复服务中心的协议为整个路易斯安那州提供康复服务，并将筛选现有客户作为学生设计项目的潜在参与者，就像过去四个学年的情况一样。以前的项目将被评估，新项目将在每年9月的技术RAPD会议上筛选，并在每年5月的现有技术高级设计会议上评估和传播给社区。CREST与BIEN、MEEN、ELEN和MDSD高级设计项目的管理整合将侧重于团队和项目选择过程、一系列正式培训研讨会、结构化指导、基于FDA的设计审查、形成性和总结性评估以及传播。技术团队已经意识到，学生接受的关于工程设计迭代过程的实践培训在课堂外更容易学习。学生们学会在本土环境中识别客户的需求，这些需求在学术实例中并不总是一开始就很清楚。这是团队的经验，这激励学生的程度是很难在一个纯粹的学术环境。客户也感受到一种特殊的利他主义，因为他们有机会通过项目塑造年轻的工程师，产生一种独特的自豪感和共同所有权。拟议活动的智力价值：该提案将提供一个独特的高级设计培训计划，在工程和科学技术学院的多学科环境中为CREST客户提供定制设备。该计划将建立在NSF资助的综合科学课程，综合工程课程，以及最近的多学科高级设计经验。这些想法和可行的项目将通过与CREST合作产生和评估，并将在每个学年的技术RAPD和高级设计会议上提出，并在网站上传播，在州内和区域/国家会议上。定量工程分析的要求是建立在为期一年的高级设计序列，必须在规范形成过程中执行，在正式的原型设计审查期间，并在学年结束时由各自的顾问委员会在技术高级设计会议。更广泛的影响：我们预计该计划的影响将非常引人注目，特别是在区域环境中。鉴于21世纪对工程师，尤其是女性和少数族裔的迫切需求，该计划将大大提高本科工程师在州和当地地区的知名度，传达工程师在社会中发挥的重要且个人实现的作用。该项目每年将帮助培养15至24名工程师，并提供对迭代设计过程、现实世界限制、客户和患者以及CREST技术和工程人员的形成性接触，其中一半以上是女性和少数民族。鉴于技术的学生追求与医疗设备，消费技术和生物技术行业相关的广泛职业，这个机会将为他们提供广泛的经验，将获得终身的利益。由此产生的产品将得到广泛传播，潜在的工程专业学生将受到激励，残疾人将担任设计顾问，为社会带来持久的利益。