Our students complete design courses beginning their first semester on campus and continuing through each year of the biomedical engineering curriculum. At the start of the capstone experience, students have built a foundation in technical skills, ethics, relationship management in a core-team environment, written and oral communication skills, and essential design elements within a regulated industry.
- Semester 1: Project definition, background research, initial concept generation
- Semester 2: Prototyping, testing and refinement, Project Showcase
Student Deliverables
- Work as a team to follow a systematic process of designing a medical device or solution to a medical problem
- Design a medical device or system based on the sponsor’s requirements, including a project statement, statement of need, a clear set of user requirements and identification of key constraints for the design
- Work with a project sponsor to determine design inputs, design outputs and related specifications
- Develop a plan for prototyping and testing concepts within a budget. Conduct design review, fabricate prototypes, verify and test the design
- Organize, plan and deliver a Design History File and prototype to sponsor
Sponsor Expectations
- Provide financial support to fund the project and the supplies necessary to fabricate the design team’s final device associated with the project
- Provide a liaison that will meet with the team on a regular basis to review and guide their team’s progress
- Submit an evaluation of the sponsored project team each semester