REU Site: American Student Placements and Internships in Rehabilitation Engineering (ASPIRE)

匹兹堡大学为期三年的重建项目以康复工程为特色。该技术领域研究、设计、开发和部署技术，帮助残疾人和老年人过上更充实的生活，更好地参与和贡献社会。该计划每年引进10名本科生进入康复工程领域，为他们提供基础知识和技能，以便在该领域继续深造。学生与来自关键领域的专家一起参与研究项目，学习团队合作和技能，使他们成为更好的工程师，无论他们选择的方向如何。该项目强调残疾学生的参与，以提供学习的机会，并通过他们的经验教其他学生。匹兹堡大学为期三年的更新项目以康复工程为特色，展示了应用于康复、残疾和独立生活的工程原理。每年将有10名学生参与ASPIRE（美国学生安置和实习康复工程）研究，该研究源于消费者的声音，并有助于教授以人为本的设计和研究。ASPIRE的学生学习理解和实践“如何”做某事（从工程师的角度）。同样重要的是，ASPIRE的学生能够准确而易懂地描述“什么是”（科学家的观点）。以可见和有形的方式帮助残疾人和老年人的能力使康复工程（RE）成为一个引人注目和不断发展的研究领域。在ASPIRE研究经验中获得的方法和经验教训具有广泛的适用性，可以使本科生参与者成为更好的工程师和更投入的人。积极的个人和社会影响是可再生能源解决方案的结果，因此，可再生能源培训为追求任何工程领域的学生提供了良好的基础。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The 3-year renewal project at the University of Pittsburgh features rehabilitation engineering. This technical field investigates, designs, develops, and deploys technologies to help people with disabilities and older adults to live fuller lives and can better participate in and contribute to society. The project introduces ten undergraduate students each year to the field of rehabilitation engineering and provides them with the foundational knowledge and skills to pursue further study in the field. Students participate in research projects alongside experts from essential fields learning teamwork and skills that make them better engineers regardless of the direction that they choose. The program emphasizes participation by students with disabilities to provide opportunities to learn as well as teach other students through their experiences. The 3-year renewal project at the University of Pittsburgh features rehabilitation engineering and showcases engineering principles applied to rehabilitation, disability, and independent living. Ten students each year will work on ASPIRE (American Student Placements and Internships in Rehabilitation Engineering) research, which originates from the voice of the consumer and helps teach person-centered design and research. ASPIRE students learn to understand and practice “How to” do something (an engineer’s perspective). Equally important, ASPIRE students can describe precisely and understandably “What is” (a scientist’s viewpoint). The ability to help people with disabilities and older adults in a visible and tangible manner makes Rehabilitation Engineering (RE) a compelling and growing field of study. The methods and lessons learned during the ASPIRE research experience have wide applicability for making undergraduate participants better engineers and more engaged people. Positive individual and social impact is an outcome of RE solutions, and as a result, training in RE provides an excellent foundation for students pursuing any field of engineering.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.