Enhanced Senior Design through Clinical Industrial Immersion and Entrepreneurship

描述（由申请人提供）：总体目标是提高我们的顶点经验，更好地准备我们的学生通过多学科团队的方法成功地设计，制造，翻译和商业化神经疾病患者的设计。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，促进识别改进仪器/设备设计的真正临床需求。第二个目标是结合UAB商学院教师和当地企业家的客座讲座，以提高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岗中，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生产规范（GMP）相关的实践经验。第四个目标是与UAB神经外科部门建立创新伙伴关系，这将扩大我们学生可获得的项目的范围和类型。这些目标的成功完成将大大提高UAB目前的本科设计经验，同时实现NIBIB的使命，即通过培养能够开发并成功地将其设计理念转化为最终用户的BME员工来改善公共卫生。建议的活动是不同的，并补充现有的高级顶点设计经验。与学术医学和医疗器械制造业的深化合作将提供凝聚力和引人入胜的实践经验，并将鼓励解决健康问题的创业方法。研究结果将通过工程教育的期刊和技术会议、本地的K-12外展活动和本系网站的专门链接传播。通过应用直接和间接的测量工具来评估学生的学习，将为持续提高顶点体验的质量提供即时反馈。外部咨询委员会将评估项目的成功与否，并为UAB工程学院、商学院、医院以及当地工业和制造业之间新开发的合作提供建议。

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.