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峰体验，更好地为我们的学生做好准备，通过多学科团队方法成功地为神经障碍患者设计、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。第一个目标是由多学科学生团队执行为期两个学期的顶峰设计经验，这些学生团队由工程和商业方面的大四学生组成，他们将共同开发、建造并可能获得专利设计。为期两个学期的课程顺序从临床轮换开始，学生团队跟踪医生、治疗师和医务人员，帮助确定改进仪器/装置设计的实际临床需求。第二个目标是纳入UAB商学院教师和当地企业家的客座讲座，以增加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，在那里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实践(GMP)相关的实践经验。第四个目标是启动与UAB神经外科的创新伙伴关系，这将扩大我们学生可用项目的范围和类型。这些目标的成功完成将大大增强UAB当前的本科设计经验，同时履行NIBIB的使命，通过培养一支能够开发并成功地将其设计思想转化为目标最终用户的BME劳动力来改善公共健康。拟议的活动有别于现有的高级顶石设计经验，并与之相辅相成。与学术医学和医疗器械制造的深化结盟将提供具有凝聚力和参与性的实践经验，并将鼓励以创业方式解决健康问题。结果将通过关于工程教育的期刊和技术会议，通过当地的K-12外联活动和我们系网站上的专用链接来传播。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Capstone体验的持续质量改进提供即时反馈。外部咨询委员会将评估项目的成功，并就未来加强UAB工程学院、商业学院和医院以及当地工业和制造业之间的新合作提出建议。

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.