Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Week 1- Deciding Freshman Design Project


The choice of topics ranged from fabricating electrospun chitosan polymer membranes for filtration applications to remote operated submersible for water quality testing and finally to human assist-devices for disabilities or rehabilitation. Our group chose to pick the topic of human assist devices with the concentration on developing a product to help control hand tremors. The range of all of our majors brings a lot to the table, allowing us to think up designs for the project with someone majoring in biomedical engineering, a related field on developing replicated body parts, mechanical engineering to help put the assembly together for the prototype, all the way to computer engineering, to help sketch and produce a three dimensional model of the design using Pro-Engineer WildFire. Our initial goal for this project is to research upon this topic of hand tremors and develop a basic solution, to help resolve this issue. Once that is completed, we will go on to building a prototype and testing it and modifying its design, allowing the solution to be as much user friendly as possible. 

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