Design: Selective Inovative Technology and Engineering (SITE) - Senior Design Projects

项目编号：1159885 SITE项目将增加犹他大学目前的高级设计课程，并将重点放在扩大我们努力的新机会上。这个新的重点领域是帮助弥合技术、科学贡献与聋哑人和盲人社区需求之间的差距。这项工作包括提供辅助技术和设备，以支持视力和听力障碍者的发展和教育。为实现这一目标，我们将实现以下六个主要目标：目标1：让高级工程专业学生和社区合作伙伴参与设计项目，重点解决残疾人面临的挑战。目标2：培养工程专业学生与服务、教育和康复残疾人的社区组织之间的伙伴关系。目标3：支持年度高级设计项目，通过提供技术和辅助设备来提高聋哑和失明学生的生活质量，促进学习，鼓励体育活动，并支持额外的家庭和工作独立性。目标4：在社区传播信息和提高对高级设计课程顺序的认识，以获得对其他项目的支持，以解决有限制条件、障碍和残疾的人的需要。目标5：通过与犹他州聋哑和盲人学校、特殊教育部和其他社区合作伙伴的合作，评估和改善社区中原型设备的性能。目标6：通过与犹他大学技术和商业化办公室（TCO）的合作，生产可以商业化生产并分发给更多人口的技术和设备。建议的计划将提供一种机制，进一步发展工程专业本科生与教育、培训和照顾视力和听力障碍人士的社区组织之间的积极合作。PI机构的工程设计顶点课程系列已经证明了产生新技术和设备来解决具有挑战性问题的能力。SITE将支持机械工程专业本科生的培训，并为聋哑人和盲人社区提供技术。与犹他州聋哑和盲人学校的合作和支持也将有助于提高参与SITE的学生的经验。在教师和社区导师的支持下，将选出4-6名工程本科生组成的团队，在两个学期后解决具体问题并制作功能原型。这些项目将促进残疾研究领域的创新和技术进步，特别适合于帮助有视力和听力障碍的人。这些项目将进一步帮助社区组织加强和加快学习，为有特殊需要的儿童提供新技术，鼓励体育活动，改进生活技能培训，加强教育工作。通过建立由工程专业学生和社区合作伙伴组成的团队，为残疾人实践解决现实生活中的挑战，将促进教学和学习。所有项目都旨在通过与其他学生和与残疾人打交道的专业人士的互动来教授团队合作和加强合作学习。实地设施项目的目的是提高生活质量，促进残疾人融入他们所居住的社区。

PI: Merryweather, Andrew SProposal Number: 1159885The SITE program will augment the current senior design sequence at the University of Utah and will focus on new opportunities to expand our efforts. This new emphasis area is to help bridge the gap between technology, scientific contributions and the deaf and blind community's needs. This effort includes providing assistive technology and devices that will support the development and education of persons with vision and hearing impairments. To accomplish this, we will meet the following six main objectives: Objective 1: Engage senior engineering students and community partners in design projects focused on solving challenges faced by persons with disabilities. Objective 2: Cultivate a partnership between engineering students and community organizations serving, educating and rehabilitating persons with disabilities. Objective 3: Support annual senior design projects that enhance the quality of life of students who are deaf and blind by providing technology and assistive devices that accelerate learning, encourage physical activity and support additional independence at home and work. Objective 4: Disseminate information and increase awareness of the senior design course sequence in the community to gain support for additional projects to address the needs of persons with limiting conditions, disorders and disabilities. Objective 5: Evaluate and improve the performance of prototype devices in the community through partnerships with the Utah Schools for the Deaf and Blind, Department of Special Education and other community partners. Objective 6: Produce technology and devices that can be commercially manufactured and distributed to a greater population through partnerships with the Technology and Commercialization Office (TCO) at the University of Utah. Intellectual Merit The proposed plan will provide a mechanism to further the development of an active collaboration between undergraduate engineering students and community organizations who educate, train and care for individuals with vision and hearing impairments. The Engineering Design Capstone Course Series at the PI's institution has demonstrated the ability to generate new technology and devices to address challenging problems. SITE will support training of undergraduate mechanical engineering students and provide technology for the deaf and blind community. Partnership with, and support of the Utah Schools for the Deaf and Blind will also serve to enhance the experience of students involved with SITE. Teams of 4-6 engineering undergraduates supported by faculty and community mentors will be selected to solve specific problems and produce functioning prototypes after two semesters. These projects will contribute towards innovation and technology advancement in the field of disability research, specifically suited to aid persons with vision and hearing impairments. The projects will further aid community organizations and their efforts to enhance and accelerate learning to provide children with special needs with new technologies that encourage physical activity, improve life skills training, and enhance education efforts. Broader Impacts Both teaching and learning will be advanced through establishing teams of engineering students and community partners to practice solving real-life challenges for persons with disabilities. All projects will be designed to teach teamwork and enhance cooperative learning by interacting with other students and professionals working with persons living with disabilities. SITE projects will be designed to improve quality of life and promote the integration of persons living with disabilities into communities where they live.