Senior Design Capstone
**This is year long series for the 2015-2016 academic year and the page will be updated will content from each quarter accordingly.**
ME 414/498: Course Objectives:
1. Become Innovators: demonstrate excellence in design and testing methodology
2. Create Connections: Work in multidisciplinary teams between engineering and medicine
3. Improve Human Health: Create cost-effective and innovative solutions to pressing needs
This class divides the students into teams of four to six students you are matched with a clinical a need and mentor from the corresponding medical field. I worked with three peers on a solution for pre-hospital treatment of acute limb ischemia (ALI) under the guidance of an emergency vascular surgeon. The first quarter we focused on needs finding and conceptual design, including formulating a needs statements, determining customer needs, relating needs to engineering characteristics, brainstorming, and concept selection. We also considered how our device would be affected by FDA regulations, studied existing intellectual property, and gained some understanding of the complexities financing a medical company. Going forward, we will begin refining the engineering specifications and build working prototypes.
ME 414/498: Course Objectives:
1. Become Innovators: demonstrate excellence in design and testing methodology
2. Create Connections: Work in multidisciplinary teams between engineering and medicine
3. Improve Human Health: Create cost-effective and innovative solutions to pressing needs
This class divides the students into teams of four to six students you are matched with a clinical a need and mentor from the corresponding medical field. I worked with three peers on a solution for pre-hospital treatment of acute limb ischemia (ALI) under the guidance of an emergency vascular surgeon. The first quarter we focused on needs finding and conceptual design, including formulating a needs statements, determining customer needs, relating needs to engineering characteristics, brainstorming, and concept selection. We also considered how our device would be affected by FDA regulations, studied existing intellectual property, and gained some understanding of the complexities financing a medical company. Going forward, we will begin refining the engineering specifications and build working prototypes.