Course Goals

• Learn "design"
  •  Recognize and unmet need (marketing)
  •  Leverage engineering skills and the medical product design process to formulate a solution for that need
  •  Measure solution performance and use data to improve initial design
  •  Understand the unique challenges of medical product design
• Improve your marketability for your post-baccalaureate careers
• Provide an opportunity to do something you like or want think you like…
  •  Design
  •  Marketing
  •  Regulatory
  •  Quality Systems
  •  Entrepreneurism

Course Objectives

1. Preparation/practice for the "real world"
2. Develop/exercise your ability to synthesize and extend what you’ve learned
3. Gain additional skills for team-based problem solving
4. Help you decide or discern a direction for your career in engineering, science, or medicine
5. SPECIFICALLY: Complete a Team-Based Design Project
6. DESIGN… NOT Research