A Biodesign Program in Rehabilitation Engineering

项目总结：“再生工程中的生物设计方案” 构建“康复工程生物设计专业”培养跨学科交叉人才 本科生在辅助和康复医学设计、创新和商业化中的应用 这里提出了一种为残疾人设计的装置。有大量的残疾人口(在一些州每五个人中就有一个) 仅在美国和佛罗里达州就有一名新出现的截肢者(约12000)和老年人口(约330万)， 能够影响残疾人生活的智能有效的辅助和康复设备势在必行 在目前的生物医疗设备市场上。我们建议通过团队教学来教授康复工程设计 体验式精细化教学模式，包括启发、识别、发明和创新四个阶段 实施。我们相信，大学的最佳地理位置、配套环境和基础设施， 与医学界的伙伴关系，广泛的行业代表网络和卓越的 在线教育都将成为拟议中的培训计划成功的先导。 建议的生物设计方案被设计为两个疗程的序列，带有一个中级临床 沉浸和横跨四个学期的本科三年级和四年级学生在 不同的工程学科和生物医学科学学科。该计划提出了一项计划， 在生物设计的顶峰过程中整合物理治疗博士生。多学科交叉教学 团队由来自工程与计算机科学学院的工程和临床教师组成， 医学院、卫生与公共事务学院和UCF合作伙伴，如奥兰多退伍军人管理局 来自UCF企业孵化器和UCF ICorps团队的医疗中心和导师以及行业专家。 生物设计计划计划激励和向学生介绍生物设计领域的前沿进展 在三年级的春季学期通过一门入门课程恢复科学和工程， 之后是为期六周的夏季临床沉浸，学生团队识别未满足的用户导向 通过在医疗中心、义肢诊所的康复设施中组织的临床轮换， 理疗、内科和运动医学诊所。在接下来的秋季和春季学期 在大四，学生团队从暑期沉浸中寻找确定的设计问题，在两个- 学期长的顶峰设计课程，定义了项目的发明和实施阶段。广泛性 关于设备商业化和业务规划的培训被整合到设计创新和 该计划的实施阶段。该计划以暑期辅导结束，以培养 完成项目的学生的创业梦想和学术研究抱负。 该计划的长期目标是：激励学生在康复工程领域， 通过新颖的混合式教学模式，加强基于团队的设计教育，为广泛的设计做出贡献 促进残疾人社区，促进合作和跨学科的教育和研究。

PROJECT SUMMARY: “A BIODESIGN PROGRAM IN REAHABILITATION ENGINEERING” The development of “A Biodesign Program in Rehabilitation Engineering” structured to train interdisciplinary undergraduate students in the design, innovation and commercialization of assistive and rehabilitative medical devices for the disabled is proposed here. With a substantial disabled population (one in five in some states) in the United States and an emerging amputee (~12000) and geriatric population (~ 3.3 million) in Florida alone, smart and effective assistive and rehabilitative devices that can impact the lives of the disabled are imperative in the current biomedical devices market. We propose to team teach rehabilitation engineering design through an experiential and meticulous teaching model which includes four stages: Inspire, Identify, Invent and Implement. We believe that the University's optimal location, supporting environment and infrastructure, partnerships with the medical community, extensive network of industry representatives and excellence in online education will all serve as precursors for the success of the proposed training program. The proposed Biodesign program is designed as a sequence of two courses with an intermediate clinical immersion and spans across four semesters of the junior and senior years of undergraduate students in different engineering disciplines and in the biomedical sciences discipline. The program presents a plan to integrate physical therapy doctoral students in the Biodesign capstone process. The multi-disciplinary teaching team involves engineering faculty and clinical faculty from the College of Engineering and Computer Science, College of Medicine, College of Health and Public Affairs and from UCF partners such as the Orlando VA Medical Center and mentors and industry experts from the UCF Business Incubator and UCF ICorps Teams. The Biodesign program plans to inspire and introduce students to the cutting edge advances in the field of rehabilitative science and engineering through an introductory course in the spring semester of the junior year, which is followed by a six-week summer clinical immersion where student teams identify unmet user-oriented needs through clinical rotations organized in rehabilitation facilities at medical centers, prosthetics clinics, physical therapy, internal medicine and sports medicine clinics. In the following fall and spring semesters of the senior year, student teams pursue the identified design problems from the summer immersion in a two- semester long capstone design course defining the invent and implement stages of the program. Extensive training on device commercialization and business planning is integrated into the design innovation and implementation phases of the program. The program concludes with a summer mentoring to nurture entrepreneurial dreams and academic research aspirations of students completing the program. The long term objectives of the program are: to inspire students in the field of rehabilitation engineering, to enhance team-based design education through a novel mixed-mode teaching model, to contribute to a broad community of disabled individuals and to promote collaborative and inter-disciplinary education and research.