Louisiana Tech RAPD Senior Design Program

PI:啊?Neal， Dennis和Shipp， michael提案号：1034100 NSF RAPD计划支持本科设计项目的目标是为需要定制设计设备的特定残疾人提供有意义的高级设计经验的学生工程师教育和需求。该团队之前的合作经验将使该计划能够在位于洛杉矶拉斯顿的路易斯安那理工大学（Tech）的合作环境中进行。这个提议的项目将把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扩展到机械、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，并且将筛选可用的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。以前的项目将在每年9月的Tech RAPD会议上进行评估，新项目将在每年5月的现有Tech Senior Design会议上进行评估并向社区发布。CREST与BIEN， MEEN， ELEN和MDSD高级设计项目的管理整合将集中在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。技术团队已经认识到，学生们接受的关于工程设计迭代过程的实践训练更容易在课堂外学习。学生们学会在本地环境中识别客户的需求，而这些需求在一开始的学术案例中并不总是明确的。正是团队的经验激发了学生的积极性，这在纯学术环境中是很难做到的。客户也感受到一种特殊的利他主义，因为他们有机会通过产生独特自豪感和共同所有权的项目来塑造年轻的工程师。建议活动的智力价值：该提案将提供一个独特的高级设计培训计划，在工程与科学技术学院的多学科环境中为CREST客户提供定制设备。该项目将建立在美国国家科学基金会资助的综合科学课程、综合工程课程和最近的多学科高级设计经验的基础上。这些想法和可行的项目将通过与CREST的合作产生和评估，并将在每个学年的技术RAPD和高级设计会议上展示，并在网站上，在州内以及地区/国家会议上传播。定量工程分析的要求是建立在为期一年的高级设计序列中，必须在规范形成期间，在正式的原型设计审查期间，以及在学年结束时由技术高级设计会议的各自顾问委员会执行。更广泛的影响：我们预计该计划的影响将非常引人注目，特别是在区域环境方面。考虑到21世纪对工程师的迫切需求，尤其是女性和少数族裔，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和个人实现的作用。该项目每年将帮助培养15至24名工程师，并为迭代设计过程、现实世界的限制、客户和患者以及CREST技术和工程人员提供形成性的接触，CREST的技术和工程人员中有一半以上是女性和少数民族。鉴于理工学院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，这个机会将给他们带来广泛的经验，这将使他们终身受益。由此产生的产品将被广泛传播，潜在的工程学生将受到激励，残疾人将成为设计顾问，为社会带来持久的利益。

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.