Team MEDS Multidisciplinary Engineering Design Students, Projects to Aid Persons with Disabilities

0729870史密斯本课程的目标是在生物医学工程设计项目的背景下，促进本科工程专业学生的多学科设计团队体验。医疗保健行业将为职业工程师和未来的科学家带来一些最艰巨的技术挑战。医学工程设计将是应对这些挑战的重要工具，以帮助身体有困难的人。这项提案的目标是初步确定宾夕法尼亚州州立大学和周边地区的特定残疾人(身体或精神)，他们的需求可以通过专门设计的设备或软件来克服或减少。由4-5名学生组成的多学科工程高级设计团队(例如机械工程、电气工程、计算机科学与工程、工业与制造工程、生物工程和工程科学与机械)将专门组织起来，设计能够促进运动或移动的设备，这是现有商业医疗产品无法完成的。工程设计团队将根据完成设计所需的愿望和背景与修复项目相匹配。在与临床医生和患者会面后，工程团队将概述一份提案，说明设计目标、设计方法和替代方案、交付成果、里程碑、时间表和预算等项目。对于学生来说，这个项目将通过工程设计经验来促进基于实践的发现学习。学生将获得现实世界的工程经验，例如在几个层面上的沟通技能(即与其他工程师、临床医生和患者)。将对该服务学习项目进行批判性评估。总体而言，这些团队将从伦理、经济和社会背景下了解工程解决方案的影响，并激励学生在全球视野下作为下一代医学工程师参与进来。

0729870 SmithThe goal of this program is to facilitate the multidisciplinary design team experience for undergraduate engineering students within the context of a biomedical engineering design project. The healthcare industry will provide some of the most formidable technological challenges for career engineers and future scientists. Medical engineering design stands to be an important vehicle to meet these challenges to aid persons with physical challenges. The objectives of this proposal are to initially identify specific persons with disabilities (physical or mental) in the State College, Pennsylvania and surrounding area with needs which can be overcome or reduced through specially engineered devices or software. Multidisciplinary engineering senior design teams (e.g. Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Bioengineering and Engineering Science and Mechanics) of 4-5 students will be organized specifically to design devices which facilitate motion or mobility which cannot be accomplished with off-the-shelf commercial medical products. Engineering Design Teams will be matched with the rehabilitation project based on desire and background necessary to accomplish the design. After meeting with the clinicians and patient, the engineering teams will outline a proposal indicating such items as the design objectives, design approach with alternatives, deliverables, milestones, timetable and budget. For the students, this project will promote hand-on discovery-based learning through the engineering design experience. Students will gain real-world engineering experiences such as communication skills at several levels (i.e. to other engineers, clinicians and patients). Critical assessment of this service-learning project will be performed. Overall the teams will understand the impact of engineering solutions in an ethical, economic and societal context and inspire the students to participate as the next generation of medical engineers within a global perspective.