Multidiscipline design projects with outreach to persons with disability

描述（由申请人提供）：生物医学工程的高级顶点设计课程是学生的终极体验，为期一年的设计课程为所有项目团队提供了一个现实世界的机会，解决由残疾人或以帮助残疾人为使命的社区团体确定的开放式问题。对最初课程提供的评估表明，通过扩大项目范围，包括电气和计算机工程学生和导师的专业知识，可以改善教育和团队设计。通过这次新的合作，学生将从他们的主要领域之外的领域获得宝贵的技能，并且预计项目设计水平将得到提高。该计划的总体目标是建立一个充满活力的高级设计计划，促进学生，导师和大学水平的多学科努力，并促进向残疾人社区的推广。我们计划通过以下具体目标来实现这一目标：需要多学科团队来设计、制造和测试设备。2. 扩大大学和社区的合作，包括电子和计算机工程方面的专业知识。3. 通过夏季设计项目鼓励BME大三学生尽早参与。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The senior Capstone Design course in Biomedical Engineering is the culminating experience for the students, and the year-long design course provides all project teams with a real-world opportunity to solve an open-ended problem as identified by individuals with disabilities, or by community groups whose mission is to help those with disabilities. Evaluation of the initial course offering indicated an opportunity for improvements in education and team design by expanding the project scope to include expertise from electrical and computer engineering students and mentors. From this new collaboration, students will gain valuable skills from areas outside of their primary field, and itis expected that the level of project design will improve. The overall goal of this program is to buil a dynamic Senior Design program that fosters multi-disciplinary efforts at the student, mentor and University level, and promotes outreach to the disabled community. We plan to accomplish this through the following specific objectives: 1. Require multi-disciplinary teams that will desig, build and test a device. 2. Expand University and community collaborations to include expertise in electrical and computer engineering. 3. Encourage early participation of BME juniors through a summer design program.