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

匹兹堡大学为期3年的续建项目以康复工程为特色。这一技术领域调查、设计、开发和部署技术，以帮助残疾人和老年人过上更充实的生活，并能够更好地参与和贡献社会。该项目每年向10名本科生介绍康复工程领域，并为他们提供在该领域继续深造的基础知识和技能。学生与基础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是什么。该计划强调残疾学生的参与，以提供学习机会，并通过他们的经历教授其他学生。匹兹堡大学为期3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(康复工程中的美国学生安置和实习)研究，该研究源于消费者的声音，有助于教授以人为中心的设计和研究。希望学生学会理解和实践“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、易懂地描述“是什么”(科学家的观点)。以看得见、摸得着的方式帮助残疾人和老年人的能力使康复工程(RE)成为一个引人注目且不断增长的研究领域。在ASPIRE研究经验中学到的方法和经验教训对使本科生参与者成为更好的工程师和更积极参与的人具有广泛的适用性。积极的个人和社会影响是RE解决方案的结果，因此，RE培训为从事任何工程领域的学生提供了良好的基础。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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.