Multidiscipline design projects with outreach to persons with disability

描述（由申请人提供）：生物医学工程的高级顶点设计课程是学生的终极体验，为期一年的设计课程为所有项目团队提供了一个现实世界的机会，解决由残疾人或以帮助残疾人为使命的社区团体确定的开放式问题。对最初课程提供的评估表明，通过扩大项目范围，包括电气和计算机工程学生和导师的专业知识，可以改善教育和团队设计。通过这次新的合作，学生将从他们的主要领域之外的领域获得宝贵的技能，并且预计项目设计水平将得到提高。该计划的总体目标是建立一个充满活力的高级设计计划，促进学生，导师和大学水平的多学科努力，并促进向残疾人社区的推广。我们计划通过以下具体目标来实现这一目标：需要多学科团队来设计、制造和测试设备。2. 扩大大学和社区的合作，包括电子和计算机工程方面的专业知识。3. 通过夏季设计项目鼓励BME大三学生尽早参与。公共卫生相关：多学科的工程师和其他专业团队通常受雇于工业和研究，以开发医疗设备设计的进步。这个项目的所有学生都将被安排在多学科团队中，与具有互补技能的学生一起工作，并设计一种有针对性的设备来帮助那些残疾人。对设计课程提出的改进将使毕业生更好地为人类健康的进步做出重大贡献。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The senior Capstone Design course in Biomedical Engineering is the culminating experience for the students, and the year-long design course provides all project teams with a real-world opportunity to solve an open-ended problem as identified by individuals with disabilities, or by community groups whose mission is to help those with disabilities. Evaluation of the initial course offering indicated an opportunity for improvements in education and team design by expanding the project scope to include expertise from electrical and computer engineering students and mentors. From this new collaboration, students will gain valuable skills from areas outside of their primary field, and itis expected that the level of project design will improve. The overall goal of this program is to buil a dynamic Senior Design program that fosters multi-disciplinary efforts at the student, mentor and University level, and promotes outreach to the disabled community. We plan to accomplish this through the following specific objectives: 1. Require multi-disciplinary teams that will desig, build and test a device. 2. Expand University and community collaborations to include expertise in electrical and computer engineering. 3. Encourage early participation of BME juniors through a summer design program. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Multi-disciplinary teams of engineers and other specialties are typically employed in industry and research to develop the advancements in medical device design. All students in this program will similarly be placed on multi-disciplinary teams, work with students with complementary skills, and design a device with a targeted goal of helping those with disabilities. The proposed improvements to the design course will better prepare graduates to make a significant contribution to the advancement of human health. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This program will build on the initial strengths of the senior Capstone Design course series and expand the project scope to include expertise from electrical and computer engineering students and mentors. This added technical skill will improve the quality of final projects that student teams are able to deliver to the clients with disabilities, and better prepare students for their future biomedical careers. The program also implements a new Summer Design program where juniors can get early design training by refining the devices left by seniors before delivery to the intended clients.