Engineering Design to Aid Aging Persons (EDAAP): Senior Capstone Design program to aid aging and other persons with disabilities

项目负责人：Hansen， Steven和Wood， Byard d .提案号：1134255州立大学机械与航空航天工程（MAE）高级顶点设计课程，该课程将设计并提供创新的辅助技术解决方案，以满足与衰老相关的残疾人的需求，这也将使任何年龄的残疾人受益。驱动项目活动的四个首要目标：1。让来自工程、商业、特殊教育和康复专业的学生参与开发创新的设计方案，为老年残疾人提供辅助技术。为高级机械工程学生和其他学科的学生提供有价值的，实用的，现实世界的顶点设计经验。让学生体验从概念到市场的创造性设计解决方案所需的多个设计过程（例如，原型水平，人机界面设计和可用性，可制造性，市场约束，商业计划等）。EDAAP将使用MAE的顶点设计课程来开发辅助技术设备，并最终为市场做好准备，包括三个为期一年（两个学期）的开发阶段，包括工程原型阶段、制造原型阶段和市场就绪原型阶段。智力优势EDAAP项目将侧重于创造性和创新性的设计解决方案，这些解决方案将使由于衰老过程而逐渐丧失能力的人能够独立、行动和一定程度的活动。高级工程设计专业的学生将为市场设计、建造、评估和准备辅助设备，重点是1)使家庭独立，2)帮助人们和物品进出汽车，3)为户外和公共场所执行任务提供移动辅助，4)为娱乐活动提供移动选择。该项目将从EDAAP合作者提交的12个自适应设备学生设计项目开始。更广泛的影响项目成功的关键将是整合来自整个大学以及当地和区域利益相关者的合作和多学科支持，包括老年中心、辅助生活中心、县政府和残疾人外展和支持组织。这种自适应设备的学者、护理提供者和用户/客户将与学生设计团队协商，并在整个设计阶段协助实验室和现场测试。随着设计项目进入三个阶段，商学院和教育及人文服务学院的学生将加入设计团队，评估产品、准备市场分析和商业计划，并协助将产品准备好，提交给科技商业化办公室和制造商。商业化过程将通过授权在产品中使用知识产权的权利，或通过分拆部分由大学和发明者拥有的小型制造公司来实现。推广和传播工作源于项目的更大目标，重点是向多学科学生组织和地区学校（包括那些有大量美洲原住民人口的学校）进行演讲和活动，将工程设计和辅助技术纳入课堂，以激发学生的兴趣，拓宽学生的科学和技术基础。

PI: Hansen, Steven and Wood, Byard D.Proposal Number: 1134255State University's Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering (MAE) Senior Capstone Design Course that will design and provide innovative assistive technology solutions for the needs of persons with disabilities related to aging and that will also benefit persons of any age with disabilities. Four overarching goals drive the project's activities:1. Engage students from engineering, business, and special education & rehabilitation in developing innovative design solutions that provide assistive technologies to aging persons with disabilities2. Provide a valuable, practical, real-world capstone design experience for senior mechanical engineering students and students from other disciplines that participate3. Give students experience with the multiple design processes required to get a creative design solution from concept to the marketplace (e.g., prototype levels, human interface design and usability, manufacturability, market constraints, business plan, etc.)4. Develop a sustainable capstone design project program that extends beyond grant fundingIntellectual Merit EDAAP will use MAE's Capstone Design Course to develop assistive technology devices and, ultimately, prepare them for the market place incorporating a process cycle of three one-year (two semester) development phases that include an Engineering Prototype Phase, a Manufacturing Prototype Phase, and a Market-ready Prototype Phase.Intellectual MeritThe EDAAP project will focus on creative and innovative design solutions that will enable the independence, mobility, and a level of activity to persons with the onset of progressively disabling circumstances due to the aging process. Senior engineering design students will design, build, evaluate, and prepare assistive devices for market that focus on 1) enabling independence in the home, 2) helping get people and items in/out of cars, 3) providing mobility assistance for performing tasks outdoors and in public places, and 4) providing mobility options for access to recreational activity. The project will begin with a list of 12 adaptive device student design projects submitted by EDAAP collaborators.Broader ImpactKey to project success will be the integration of collaboration and multidisciplinary support from across the university as well as local and regional stakeholders including senior centers, assisted living centers, county governments, and disabilities outreach and support organizations. Academics, care providers, and users/customers of such adaptive devices will consult with student design teams and assist with both lab and in-situ testing throughout the design phases. As design projects proceed through the three phases, students from the College of Business and the College of Education and Human Services will join the design teams to evaluate products, prepare market analyses and business plans, and help ready products to proceed to the Technology Commercialization Office and manufacturers. The commercialization process will occur by licensing the right to use the IP in products or by spinning off small manufacturing companies owned in part by the university and the inventors.Outreach and Dissemination efforts grow out of the project's larger goals and focus on presentations to and activities with multidisciplinary student organizations and regional schools (including those with large Native American populations) to incorporate engineering design and assistive technologies into the classroom to create student interest and broaden student's scientific and technical foundation.