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Team and
Individual Project Task Summary
Team Project Tasks:
- Mid-term
Assignment:
- Review candidate project offerings from
the handout or webpage
- Note interesting projects
- Form a team of no more than three
- Considerations for Team Formation and
Project Selection:
- Project
preference - All team members should have a desire to work on the same
project.
- Undergraduate /
graduate student - It would be best if all team members were either
undergraduate or graduate students as this makes it easier to continue projects
into the Spring Quarter.
- Desire to continue
project work into Spring Quarter - Ideally, all team members should commit
to continue their project effort into the Spring Quarter.
- Team's engineering
skill set - Match the team's expertise with the needs of the project,
including shop / lab experience and fabrication ability.
- Team members' course
load - All team members should be able to devote sufficient time to the
project.
- Personality -
There should be a compatible mix of personalities on the team.
- Consider interesting projects as a
team
- Decide on a team project - inform
instructor of selection
- Contact the individual who suggested the
project
- Acquire information on underlying problem
and need
- Investigate project needs with an
individual with a disability, caregivers, family members, health-care
professionals
- Evaluate the needs to further define and
specify the project parameters
- Gather relevant background information for
the project, including any prior design approaches and existing commercial
products
- Brainstorm, evaluate, and select a design
concept
- End-of-term
Assignment:
- Prototype, fabricate, test, assess the
result - iterate the process
- Present team’s design - giving
background, criteria, initial concepts from brainstorming, selected design
candidate, and any prototyping, fabrication, and testing
- Submit an end-of-term
final report and
Individual Reflection on the project
experience
- Meet and communicate with instructor on
project progress
- Attend lectures as required
Individual
Project Tasks:
- Attend at least 10 lectures, including the
first lecture, Introduction to Assistive
Technology.
- Meet with the course instructor to agree
on an assistive technology project and to report progress during the
quarter.
- Interview an individual with a disability
or older adult, consisting of a overview of the individual's life, challenges
being faced, successes achieved, desires for the future.
- Review of assistive technology employed,
their usefullness and limitations, problems experienced, and similar products
on the market.
- Focus on one of these activities that
benefits the interviewed older adult or individual with a disability:
- Research an assistive
technology topic - report on new products and research under development
that have the potential to benefit the interviewed older adult or person with a
disability.
- Pursue a "paper design"
of an assistive technology device - develop a CAD design or a "low
resolution" physical device built from foam-core or other prototyping material.
- Create a work of art
- create an original poem, song, skit, painting, or video. (This option would
be of particular interest to students who have skills and expertise other than
engineering.)
- Engage in an aftermarket
aesthetic design - select an existing assistive product that could benefit
from a better appearance, contact the manufacturer, and work with a user of the
device to improve its aesthetic appeal.
- Engage in an aftermarket
functionality / usability design - select an existing assistive product
that could benefit from a better functionality or usability, contact the
manufacturer, and work with a user of the device to improve its functionality
or usability.
- Give a final presentation of about 15
minutes in length to be scheduled outside of class time during the week of
March 4th that includes PowerPoint slides, photographs, and short videos as
described here.
- Submit a final report that documents the
entire quarter's effort and addresses the elements described
here. Individual final reports are due
Monday, March 11th.
- Submit an Individual Reflection as
described here. Individual reflections
are due Monday, March 18th.
Pre-lecture Class
Discussions:
- Be attentive
- Absorb / understand / analyze
- Formulate opinions
- Contribute to discussion
Guest Lectures:
- Be attentive
- Absorb / understand / analyze
- Ask questions
Communication:
- Mid-term team presentation and
report
- End-of-term team presentation and
report
- Individual Reflection
- In-class discussions and lecture
questions
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