Undergraduate Student Design Projects to Aid Persons with Disabilities

0221597 Yamaguchi该奖项为继续在美国亚利桑那州州立大学（ASC）开展的NSF 9631744号奖项下开展的设计项目活动提供支持，在这些活动中，学生们为残疾人设计和建造了定制项目。这些活动的目的是加强工程教育，为学生提供对生物医学工程职业的洞察力，改善残疾人的生活质量，并服务社会。在亚利桑那州立大学过去12年的设计项目活动中，成功完成了109个设计项目，并对115名本科生进行了基本设计原则的培训。设计项目的活动是在ASU的环境中成功工作的。学生残疾资源（DRS），为亚利桑那州立大学校园内数百名身心残疾的学生提供住宿，将与学生工程师的工作紧密结合。每年将与DRS一起进行10个高级设计项目，以开发原型设备。两名本科生暑期实习生将根据该计划在DRS兼职工作，为学生工程师制定适当的项目清单。一个研究生是通过帮助本科设计团队和促进ASU和附近社区之间的新的连接，以服务和/或支持残疾人协助管理程序。该项目每年将引进10至20名新工程师，以解决残疾人面临的日常问题。此外，残疾人社区将作为设计顾问直接参与，从而增加代表性不足的群体对活动的参与。

0221597YamaguchiThis award provides support to continue Design Projects' activities begun under NSF award #9631744 at Arizona State University (ASC) 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 biomedical engineering, improve the quality of life of people with disabilities, and serve the community. The past 12 years of design projects activity at ASU led to the successful completion of 109 design projects and training of 115 undergraduate students in basic design principles. The design projects' activity is structured to work successfully within the environment of ASU. Disability Resources for Students (DRS), which provides accommodations for hundreds of mentally and physically disabled students on the ASU campus, will be closely integrated with the student engineers' work. Ten senior design projects are to be pursued each year in conjunction with DRS to develop the prototype devices. Two undergraduate summer interns are to be supported under the program to work part-time at DRS to develop a listing of appropriate projects for the student engineers. A graduate student is to assist in administering the program by helping the undergraduate design teams and fostering new connections between ASU and nearby communities to serve and/or support persons with disabilities. This project is to introduce 10 to 20 new engineers each year to the daily problems faced by the disabled. Additionally, the disabled community will be directly involved as design consultants and thereby increase the participation of an underrepresented group in the activity.