Undergraduate Bioengineering Design Projects

0119392 Ezenwa该项目的目标是：（1）鼓励本科电气，机械，计算机工程和联合健康的学生进行康复工程的大四设计项目，以及（2）将这些设计项目的重点放在骨科和/或神经肌肉残疾的特定个人的需求上。学生从联合健康，职业治疗（OT）和电气工程部门的班级名册中招募，并从机械，工业和计算机工程部门选修课程注册。预计三年计划中每年将完成7个设计项目。客户已确定在大密尔沃基地区谁将受益于拟议的高级设计项目。该项目的意义在于：（1）在工程专业本科生教育发展的形成阶段，让他们接触康复工程领域，可能会使他们对该专业在康复环境中的作用敏感;（II）让职业治疗学生有更多机会接触-辅助技术设备性能的深度特征，以便他们能够确定残疾人对设备的要求;（III）透过组成由工程学及辅助技术学生组成的小型设计小组，工程学学生可掌握生理及功能上的限制，以便有效地提出及解决问题;（IV）联合健康学院的学生应学习为何使用某些工程组件，以及掌握与辅助技术供应商打交道所需的知识;（五）学生将在解决身体障碍所带来的限制方面做出贡献，并获得奖励;（六）客户将受益于拥有能够实现独立，潜在就业或完成学业的专业技术。

0119392EzenwaThe objectives of this project are: (1) to encourage undergraduate electrical, mechanical, computer engineering, and Allied Health students to conduct senior-year design projects in rehabilitation engineering, and (2) to focus such design projects towards the needs of specific individuals with orthopedic and/or neuromuscular disabilities. Students are recruited from the class rosters of the Departments of Allied Health, Occupational Therapy (OT), and Electrical Engineering, and elective course registrants from the mechanical, industrial and computer engineering departments. It is expected that 7 design projects will be completed each year of the three year program. Clients have been identified in the greater Milwaukee area who would benefit from the proposed senior design projects. The significance of the program is (I) exposing undergraduate engineering students to the field of rehabilitation engineering at a formative stage in their educational development might sensitize them towards the role of this profession in a rehabilitation setting; (II) exposing occupational therapy students to more in-depth characteristics of assistive technology device performance in order for them to be able to determine demands imposed on a device by a person with a disability; (III) by forming small design groups that comprise engineering and OT students, engineering students may grasp the physiologic and functional limitations necessary for effective problem formulation and solution; (IV) the students from Allied Health should learn why certain engineering components are used and to acquire the knowledge necessary to deal with vendors of assistive technology; (V) the students will be rewarded in contributing towards solving limitations imposed by physical impairments, and; (VI) the client will benefit by having the specialized technology that could enable independence, potential employment, or completion of schooling.