Engineering Senior Design Projects to Aid Disabled Persons in Central Alabama

0217100 Eberhardt该奖项延续了在亚拉巴马大学伯明翰分校（UAB）的NSF奖项#9704215下开始的设计项目活动，在该活动中，学生为残疾人设计和建造定制项目。这些活动的目的是加强工程教育，让学生了解康复事业，改善残疾人士的生活质量，以及服务社会。上一个奖项导致了许多项目的成功完成，并在基本设计原则方面培训了40多名本科生。各项目将在区域新闻媒体和地方电视特别节目中突出报道，并将在国际专题讨论会上介绍。这个新项目预计将扩大设计项目的数量，并将包括来自UAB新的生物医学工程（BME）本科课程的学生。大多数项目将与伯明翰的脑瘫联合会合作进行。

0217100EberhardtThis award continues Design Projects' activities begun under NSF award #9704215 at the University of Alabama, Birmingham (UAB), in which students designed and built custom projects for people with disabilities. The objectives of the activities are to enhance engineering education, provide students with insight into careers in rehabilitation, improve the quality of life of people with disabilities, and to serve the community. The previous award led to the successful completion of numerous projects and training of over 40 undergraduate students in basic design principles. Projects are to be featured in regional news media and local television specials, and will be described in international symposia. This new project is expected to expand the number of design projects and will include students from the new Biomedical Engineering (BME) undergraduate program at UAB. The majority of the projects are to be conducted in partnership with United Cerebral Palsy (UCP) of Birmingham.