Applying a Human-Centered Design Approach to Enhance Bioengineering Education

项目摘要 Capstone高级设计课程使生物工程（BIOE）的老年人能够参与设计 处理和应用技术基础知识和行业相关主题，最终生成功能 样机我们在莱斯大学的顶点计划，征求研究教师，医生， 和行业领导者。跨学科团队全年推动原型开发， 提交口头报告和文件。学生在我们的顶点计划享受巨大的 莱斯大学设备齐全的设计设施和基础设施提供的优势，以支持项目 德克萨斯医疗中心是世界上最大的儿童和癌症医院的所在地， 世界上最好的医疗城市这些优势，沿着着跨学科团队（机械工程， 电气工程和全球健康技术）严格的高级设计文档， 可交付成果，导致团队每年在全国范围内参加比赛。 然而，有效的顶点程序设计需要参与临床经验，这是一个缺乏的领域。 在许多现有的项目中，包括我们的项目。为了解决这个问题，我们建议建立一个新的临床 沉浸式课程，重点关注以人为本的设计和医疗保健服务中的不公平现象。我们 该计划将包括一个队列的五个生物工程高级通过应用程序和3选择 贝勒医学院的儿科住院医生这一群人将参加关于以下主题的教学讲座， 设计过程、需求发现、医疗服务不公平、通用设计、故事板、利益相关者 沟通和设计降低风险。学生将通过沉浸式参与两个应用他们的学习 临床环境：1）德克萨斯儿童医院的儿科重症监护室和2）德克萨斯心脏研究所。 练习，如迭代故事板，每日个人和小组的反思和案例研究， 器械设计的演变将阐明临床挑战领域和可讨论的关键背景 每天都有老师指导。这些练习也将作为学生工件与所有成员共享， 高级设计课程，然后是形成性测验评估。我们的临床的两个独特的特点 沉浸式方案包括：a）使用共同生产教育模式， 学生参与方案设计，从而增加了群体的所有权和参与度1和B） 儿科住院医师参与观察和与生物工程学生的讨论， 积极讨论临床挑战的不同方面。通过我们的临床浸入式课程， 该群体将有能力与各种利益相关者进行对话， 医生。最终，学生们将确定一组未满足的临床需求，反映了医疗保健领域的不公平现象。 医疗保健服务和前景以前没有解决。这个节目强调了 医疗保健交付将培训BIOE学生开发以人为本的生物医学解决方案。

Project Summary Capstone Senior Design courses enable bioengineering (BIOE) seniors to engage with the design process and apply technical fundamentals and industry related topics, ultimately generating a functional prototype. Our capstone program at Rice University, solicits project ideas from research faculty, physicians, and industry leaders. Interdisciplinary teams drive the prototype development throughout the year and submit oral presentation and documentation deliverables. Students in our capstone program enjoy immense advantage offered by a well-equipped design facility and infrastructure at Rice University to support projects from the Texas Medical Center, home to the world’s largest children’s and cancer hospital and the largest medical city in the world. These strengths, along with the cross-disciplinary teams (mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and global health technologies) rigorous senior design documentation, and oral deliverables, lead to teams placing nationally in competitions each year. Effective capstone program design, however, demands an engaged clinical experience, an area lacking in many existing programs, including ours. To address this, we propose the creation of a novel clinical immersion program with a focus on human centered design and inequities in healthcare delivery. Our program will consist of a cohort of five bioengineering seniors selected through an application process and 3 pediatric residents from Baylor College of Medicine. The cohort will attend didactic lectures on topics such as design process, needs finding, inequities in healthcare delivery, universal design, storyboarding, stakeholder communication and design de-risking. Students will apply their learnings by immersive engagement in two clinical environments: 1) Pediatric Intensive Care Unit in Texas Children’s Hospital and 2) Texas Heart Institute. Exercises such as iterative storyboarding, daily individual and group reflections and case study research on the evolution of a device design will elucidate areas of clinical challenges and critical context that can be discussed daily with faculty mentors. These exercises will also serve as student artifacts to be shared with all members of the senior design course followed by formative quiz assessments. Two unique features of our clinical immersion program include a) use of a coproduction model of education that involves equal involvement of students in program design resulting in increased ownership and engagement among the cohort1 and b) involvement of pediatric residents in observations and discussions with the bioengineering students offering an active discussion about different aspects of the clinical challenge. Through our clinical immersion program, the cohort will have the ability to engage in conversations with a diverse set of stakeholders not limited to medical practitioners. Ultimately, students will identify a set of unmet clinical needs reflecting inequities in healthcare delivery and perspectives not addressed previously. This program highlighting the inequities in healthcare deliveries will train BIOE students to develop human centered biomedical solutions.