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Table of Contents 1 Assistive Devices and Bioengineering Track 1.1 Summary 1.2 Personnel 1.3 Projects 1.4 Track Information (updated 6/6/07) 2 Assistive Device Family Information 2.1 Useful Information 2.2 Downloads 2.3 Design Competitions

Assistive Devices and Bioengineering Track

Summary

The Assistive Devices and Bioengineering Track is focused on the application of technology to improve the quality of life for individuals with disabilities, and the development of technologies related to the broad field of bioengineering.

Personnel

Individuals associated with the projects that belong to this track:

Name	Discipline	Role	email address
Steven Day	ME	Guide	swdeme@rit.edu
Elizabeth DeBartolo	ME	Guide	eademe@rit.edu
Kathleen Lamkin-Kennard	ME	Guide	kaleme@rit.edu
Risa Robinson	ME	Guide	rjreme@rit.edu
Matthew Marshall	ISE	Consultant	mmmeie@rit.edu
David Borkholder	EE	Consultant	dabeee@rit.edu
Edward Brown	EE	Consultant	eebeee@rit.edu
Daniel Phillips	EE	Guide	dbpeee@rit.edu

Projects

The following projects belong to this track. To view the information that describes an individual project, click on the associated project number.

P07000 Family of Projects

Project	Title	Start Term	End Term
P07001	ARC Communication Board	2006-1	2006-3
P07002	Two-way Communication Board	2006-1	2006-2
P07003	Mobile Camera Control System	2006-1	2006-2
P07005	Adjustable Pool Lift Seat	2006-2	2006-3
P07006	Upper Extremity Exerciser	2006-2	2006-3
P07007	Adapted Home Entry	2006-2	2006-3
P07008	ArcWorks Bottle Assembly Process	2006-2	2006-3
P07009	Warfarin Automated Home Medication Dispenser	2006-2	2006-3
P07021	Instrument to Detect Thromboemboli in Blood	2006-2	2006-3
P07041	Expandable Alveolar Sac	2006-2	2006-3
P07052	Motion Tracking System	2006-3	2007-1
P08000	Proposed Projects - 2007	2007-1	2007-3

Additional support for project P07003 was provided by Par Technology Corp.

Additional support for project P07001 was provided by Elo Touch Systems.

Track Information (updated 6/6/07)

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Assistive Device Family Information

Useful Information

• To use the Edge e-mail option to send mail to your entire team or another Assistive Device Track team, you can use the Bulk Email link. Just select the team number from the pull-down menu and choose access level "Editor", since all student team members have been given Editor privileges on their team's websites.
• To see projects done at other schools under this program, you can visit the Homepage for the NSF Devices for People with Disabilities Program. Your project background research should start here to see if other similar devices have been constructed elsewhere.
• For direct links to projects done at RIT under this program, go to the SDAPD Home.
• All assistive device teams have some additional requirements. Each team must:
  • Have each team member sign the additional personnel form on the first day of Senior Design (available from Dr. DeBartolo)
  • Maintain all budget and purchase information online or in hardcopy to be presented to your advisor no less often than weekly once purchasing begins.
  • Submit a 2-page project summary at the end of the year. These summaries will be archived on the NSF Devices for People with Diabilities Homepage.

Downloads

These downloads may be helpful to you as you work on your projects:

• Budget Worksheet - please name the file to make it easy to distinguish between teams, e.g. "P0800#_budget.xls"
• Sample 2-page Summaries - At the end of MSD II, each NSF-sponsored team is required to submit a 2-page project summary that will be used to publicize this family of projects. This is a sample of a prior RIT report. Please name the file to make it easy to distinguish between teams, e.g. "P0800#_2-page_summary.doc"

Design Competitions

Students interested in these design projects should consider entering the following design competitions. NSF has provided some travel funds for students attending the conferences to present papers.

• Rehabilitation Engineering Research center on Accessible Medical Instrumentation: National Student Design Competition
• NISH: National Scholar Award for Workplace Innovation and Design (A 2004-05 RIT Senior Design Team received an honorable mention in this contest)
• Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America: Student Design Competition (click on "Call for Participation" or "Student Design Competition" for information)

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