Inspiring Biomechanical Engineers through Collaborative Clinically-Immersive Design

通过协作临床沉浸式设计激励生物力学工程师

• 批准号: 10669181
• 负责人: Kimberly Edginton Bigelow
• 金额: $ 2.15万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-07-01 至 2024-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10669181
• 关键词: Adopted; Adult; Biomechanics; Caregivers; Cerebral Palsy; Client; Clinical; Communication; Communities; Community Participation; Compensation; Dependence; Devices; Disabled Children; Disabled Persons; Down Syndrome; Education; Educational Curriculum; Engineering; Environment; Environment Design; Ethics; Faculty; Feedback; Future; Goals; Home; Human; Individual; Industry; Learning; Leisures; Mentors; Modification; Movement; Multiple Sclerosis; Occupational Therapist; Outcome; Participant; Process; Quality of life; Rehabilitation therapy; Research; Resources; Role; Schools; Self-Help Devices; Stroke; Students; Technology; Testing; Time; Universities; Visual impairment; Work; biomechanical engineering; career; clinically relevant; collaborative environment; design; disability; engineering design; experience; manufacture; peer coaching; programs; self esteem; skills; undergraduate student

Project Summary Adults and children with disabilities often struggle to perform activities associated with daily living, leisure, school and/or work, and rehabilitation. Inability to perform activities such as these limit these individuals from full community participation, reduce quality of life and self-esteem, and require dependence on caregivers. Occupational therapists (OTs) work with individuals with disabilities to regain the ability to perform these activities. However, often individuals have limited function and need the assistance of a device or technology to achieve tasks. Assistive devices and technology allow individuals with disabilities to compensate for their functional limitations and participate in activities at home, work, school, in the community, or in the therapy environment. Many assistive devices are available commercially, but are challenging for individuals with disabilities to adopt because the devices are very expensive to purchase, not specific to individual needs, and are difficult to adjust for size. OTs often have an idea of a device or a modification to a commercially available device that would meet the needs of an individual but OTs do not have the time, expertise in design, or resources for manufacturing to bring the ideas to product realization. There is a need to establish a collaborative environment for design of assistive devices that can leverage the design experience of engineers with the vast clinical experience of therapists and the feedback of individuals with disabilities. To meet this need, the proposed program will provide collaborative clinically-immersive design experiences for undergraduate biomechanical engineering students. The program’s overall goal is to inspire the students to apply their engineering background and skills in combination with a newly acquired understanding of clinical needs and interactions with individuals with disabilities. The proposed program will revise existing courses in the undergraduate Human Movement Biomechanics curriculum at the University of Dayton to include clinically- immersive design experiences and challenge students to work in teams to design solutions for assistive devices that meet the needs of individuals with disabilities. The program will focus on sophomore students in an Introduction to Biomechanics course and senior students in a year-long Engineering Senior Design Capstone course. The program objectives are to: 1) mentor undergraduate biomechanical engineering students through team-based design projects of assistive devices to meet the needs of individuals with disabilities, and 2) revise existing courses to include collaborative clinically-immersive design experiences that will allow students to receive clinical input from OTs and individuals with disabilities within the engineering design process. The program expects to enrich the team-based engineering design experiences available for students in the Human Movement Biomechanics program, provide students with inspiring clinical interactions to stimulate opportunity and need recognition of clinically-relevant problems, and motivate students to leverage their educational experiences as they embark on careers as engineers in the biomedical field.

项目概要 残疾成人和儿童常常难以进行与日常生活、休闲、 学校和/或工作以及无法进行此类活动限制了这些人。 充分的社区参与，降低生活质量和自尊，并需要依赖护理人员。 职业治疗师 (OT) 与残疾人合作，帮助他们重新获得执行这些任务的能力 然而，个人的功能通常有限，需要设备或技术的帮助才能进行。 辅助设备和技术使残疾人能够补偿他们的任务。 功能限制并参与家庭、工作、学校、社区或治疗中的活动 许多辅助设备都可以在市场上买到，但对于患有这种疾病的个人来说却是一项挑战。 无法采用，因为这些设备的购买成本非常昂贵，并且不特定于个人需求，并且 很难调整尺寸。OT 通常有一个设备的想法或对商用设备进行修改。 可以满足个人需求的设备，但 OT 没有时间、设计专业知识或 制造资源将想法转化为产品实现 需要建立一个资源。 用于设计辅助设备的协作环境，可以利用工程师的设计经验 凭借治疗师丰富的临床经验和残疾人的反馈来满足这一目标。 根据需要，拟议的计划将为以下人员提供协作式临床沉浸式设计体验 该计划的总体目标是激发学生生物力学工程专业的学生。 将他们的工程背景和技能与新获得的对临床的理解相结合 拟议的计划将修改现有课程。 代顿大学的本科人体运动生物力学课程包括临床- 身临其境的设计体验，并挑战学生团队合作设计辅助解决方案 该计划将重点关注以下学校的新生。 生物力学简介课程和高年级学生为期一年的工程高级设计 顶点课程的目标是：1）指导本科生生物力学工程。 学生通过辅助设备的团队设计项目来满足个人的需求 残疾，以及 2) 修改现有课程，纳入协作式临床沉浸式设计经验，这些经验 将允许学生从工程领域内的 OT 和残疾人士那里获得临床输入 该计划希望丰富基于团队的工程设计经验。 人体运动生物力学项目的学生为学生提供鼓舞人心的临床互动 激发对临床相关问题的机会和需求认识，并激励学生利用 他们在生物医学领域从事工程师职业时的教育经历。