Enhanced Senior Design through Clinical Industrial Immersion and Entrepreneurship

描述（由申请人提供）：总体目标是增强我们的顶点经验，更好地帮助我们的学生通过多学科团队方法成功地为神经系统疾病患者设计、制造、翻译和商业化设计。这一目标将通过成功完成四个具体目标来实现。第一个目标是由工程和商业专业的高年级学生组成的多学科学生团队执行为期两个学期的顶点设计经验，他们将共同开发、构建和潜在的专利设计。两个学期的课程顺序从临床轮转开始，学生团队跟随医生、治疗师和医务人员，促进确定改进仪器/设备设计的实际临床需求。第二个目标是结合UAB商学院和当地企业家的客座讲座，以增强学生对现实世界产品开发和商业模式的接触，包括监管问题和成功的项目管理技术。第三个目标是让学生沉浸在制造轮换中，他们将获得与最先进的金属和塑料制造方法、质量评估和控制以及良好制造规范 (GMP) 相关的实践经验。第四个目标是与阿拉巴马大学神经外科系建立创新合作伙伴关系，这将扩大我们学生可以参与的项目范围和类型。成功完成这些目标将显着提高 UAB 当前的本科生设计经验，同时履行 NIBIB 的使命，即通过培养 BME 劳动力来改善公共健康，这些劳动力能够开发并成功地将其设计理念转化为目标最终用户。拟议的活动不同于现有的高级顶点设计经验，并且是对其的补充。与学术医学和医疗器械制造的深化结合将提供具有凝聚力和吸引力的实践经验，并将鼓励采用创业方法来解决健康问题。结果将通过工程教育期刊和技术会议、当地 K-12 外展和我们系网站上的专用链接进行传播。通过应用直接和间接测量工具对学生的学习进行评估，将为顶点体验的持续质量改进提供即时反馈。外部顾问委员会将评估项目的成功，并就未来加强阿拉巴马大学工程学院、商学院和医院以及当地工业和制造业之间新发展的合作提出建议。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall objective is to enhance our capstone experience to better prepare our students to successfully design, manufacture, translate and commercialize designs for persons with neurological disorders through a multi-disciplinary team approach. This objective will be met through successful completion of four specific aims. The first aim involves execution of the two- semester capstone design experience by multi-disciplinary student teams consisting of seniors in Engineering and Business who will work together to develop, construct and potentially patent designs. The two-semester course sequence begins with clinical rotations where student teams shadow physicians, therapists and medical personnel, facilitating identification of real clinical needs for improved instrument/devic design. The second aim is to incorporate guest lectures by UAB Business faculty and local entrepreneurs to enhance student exposure to real-world product development and business models, including regulatory issues and successful project management techniques. The third aim involves immersion of students in a manufacturing rotation where they will gain hands-on experience associated with state-of-the-art manufacturing methods for metals and plastics, quality assessment and control, and good manufacturing practices (GMP). The fourth aim is the initiation of an innovation partnership with the UAB Department of Neurosurgery that will expand the scope and types of projects available to our students. Successful completion of these aims will result in measurable enhancements of the current undergraduate design experience at UAB, while fulfilling the NIBIB mission to improve public health by producing a BME workforce that can develop and successfully translate their design ideas to reach intended end-users. The proposed activities are distinct from and complimentary to the existing senior capstone design experience. The deepened alignment with academic medicine and medical device manufacturing will provide cohesive and engaging hands-on experiences and will encourage entrepreneurial approaches to solving health problems. Results will be disseminated through journals and technical conferences on engineering education, through local K-12 outreach and dedicated links on our department website. Assessment of student learning through application of direct and indirect measurement tools will provide immediate feedback for continuous quality improvement of the capstone experience. An External Advisory Board will assess program success and advise future enhancements to the newly developed collaborations between the UAB School of Engineering, School of Business, and Hospital, as well as local industry and manufacturing.