Inspiring Biomechanical Engineers through Collaborative Clinically-Immersive Design

项目摘要 残疾的成年人和儿童往往很难进行与日常生活、休闲、 学校和/或工作，以及康复。无法进行这些活动限制了这些人 充分的社区参与，降低生活质量和自尊，并需要依赖照顾者。 职业治疗师（OTs）与残疾人一起工作，以重新获得执行这些任务的能力。 活动然而，个人通常具有有限的功能，并且需要设备或技术的帮助，以 完成任务。辅助设备和技术使残疾人能够补偿他们的 功能限制，并参与家庭，工作，学校，社区或治疗中的活动 环境许多辅助设备是商业上可获得的，但对于患有自闭症的个人来说是具有挑战性的。 残疾人采用，因为设备购买非常昂贵，不针对个人需求， 很难调整尺寸OT通常有一个设备的想法或对市售设备的修改 满足个人需求的设备，但OT没有时间，设计专业知识，或 制造资源，将创意转化为产品实现。有必要建立一个 辅助设备设计的协作环境，可以利用工程师的设计经验 治疗师的丰富临床经验和残疾人的反馈。满足这一 需要，拟议的计划将提供协作临床沉浸式设计经验， 生物力学工程本科生。该计划的总体目标是激励学生 应用他们的工程背景和技能，结合新获得的对临床 与残疾人的需求和互动。拟议的方案将修改现有的课程， 代顿大学的本科人体运动生物力学课程，包括临床- 沉浸式设计体验，挑战学生在团队中工作，为辅助设计解决方案 满足残疾人需求的设备。该计划将集中在大二学生在 生物力学导论课程和大四学生为期一年的工程高级设计 Capstone球场该计划的目标是：1）指导本科生生物力学工程 学生透过小组合作设计辅助器具项目，以满足个别人士的需要， 残疾人，以及2）修改现有课程，以纳入协作的临床沉浸式设计体验， 将允许学生从工程中的OT和残疾人那里获得临床输入 设计过程该计划预计将丰富基于团队的工程设计经验， 人体运动生物力学课程的学生，为学生提供鼓舞人心的临床互动 刺激机会，需要认识到临床相关的问题，并激励学生利用 他们的教育经验，因为他们走上职业生涯作为工程师在生物医学领域。

Project Summary Adults and children with disabilities often struggle to perform activities associated with daily living, leisure, school and/or work, and rehabilitation. Inability to perform activities such as these limit these individuals from full community participation, reduce quality of life and self-esteem, and require dependence on caregivers. Occupational therapists (OTs) work with individuals with disabilities to regain the ability to perform these activities. However, often individuals have limited function and need the assistance of a device or technology to achieve tasks. Assistive devices and technology allow individuals with disabilities to compensate for their functional limitations and participate in activities at home, work, school, in the community, or in the therapy environment. Many assistive devices are available commercially, but are challenging for individuals with disabilities to adopt because the devices are very expensive to purchase, not specific to individual needs, and are difficult to adjust for size. OTs often have an idea of a device or a modification to a commercially available device that would meet the needs of an individual but OTs do not have the time, expertise in design, or resources for manufacturing to bring the ideas to product realization. There is a need to establish a collaborative environment for design of assistive devices that can leverage the design experience of engineers with the vast clinical experience of therapists and the feedback of individuals with disabilities. To meet this need, the proposed program will provide collaborative clinically-immersive design experiences for undergraduate biomechanical engineering students. The program’s overall goal is to inspire the students to apply their engineering background and skills in combination with a newly acquired understanding of clinical needs and interactions with individuals with disabilities. The proposed program will revise existing courses in the undergraduate Human Movement Biomechanics curriculum at the University of Dayton to include clinically- immersive design experiences and challenge students to work in teams to design solutions for assistive devices that meet the needs of individuals with disabilities. The program will focus on sophomore students in an Introduction to Biomechanics course and senior students in a year-long Engineering Senior Design Capstone course. The program objectives are to: 1) mentor undergraduate biomechanical engineering students through team-based design projects of assistive devices to meet the needs of individuals with disabilities, and 2) revise existing courses to include collaborative clinically-immersive design experiences that will allow students to receive clinical input from OTs and individuals with disabilities within the engineering design process. The program expects to enrich the team-based engineering design experiences available for students in the Human Movement Biomechanics program, provide students with inspiring clinical interactions to stimulate opportunity and need recognition of clinically-relevant problems, and motivate students to leverage their educational experiences as they embark on careers as engineers in the biomedical field.