Greetings! There are two design projects + one reverse engineering project for the J-term. The two design projects will lead to solution-based prototypes. An important part of design is being able to communicate your ideas verbally and visually – so throughout the J-term you will be asked to maintain a journal/blog to share your discoveries, insights, posts, discussions, and point of view.
- Patient health team project – your team will be assigned one patient volunteer and your goal is to apply design thinking principles to take action and initiate long term healthier behaviors in your patient. Look for opportunities for your patient to make stronger social connections, diet improvement, or physical activity. Your team will create plan and help them move forward over the next 3 months.
- Personal health project – you will seek one area of health to improve that is physical or diet related. It is important that you can track data and quantify your findings. You can use a journal or plus3network.com. For your personal health project you will work with a partner and practice collaborating, practicing interviews, gaining empathy, and present each other’s work.
- Recommendations –
- Choose something you can stick with
- Don’t do something you are already good at
- Clearly define goals with your partner
- Recommendations –
- Reverse engineer one of the following medical devices – syringe, glucose meter, thermometer, eyeglasses, or crutches
- You will write a short report and include the following information –
- First you must acquire the actual device for this exercise
- Provide a detailed engineering drawing in SolidWorks (you must use SolidWorks, it is available in the BME Lab and the Design Lab in MR4)
- Geometry & dimensions in orthographic representations
- Brief description of materials
- Summarize in 1/2 a page how the device is regulated with appropriate citations including FDA guidance documents and previously approved or cleared devices.
- In other words, please spend time on the FDA website. We can help you with searching the FDA databases for information.
- Summarize in 1/2 a page one clinical paper citing the use of the device or a device like it
- You will write a short report and include the following information –
- Required reading & hardware
- Biodesign (e-copy available through UVA library)
- http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u6535845
- In addition – ebiodesign.org has MANY great resources
- Background research for your patient
- Papers/articles assigned by faculty
- Hardware
- Computer
- A decent notebook and writing instruments. Indeed, you will be taking notes in class!
- Biodesign (e-copy available through UVA library)
- Grading/evaluation
- 50% will be the patient health team project
- 25% will be your personal health project (for your classmate)
- 15% will be the reverse-engineering project
- 10% class participation and attendance
Day 1 (01.04)
Pre Reading: Change by Design by Timothy Brown – introduction and chapter 1
Session 1: Human Centered Design 101 – Intro and interviewing for empathy on healthy habits
Session 2: Intro to visualization and prototyping
Session 3: Meet our patients!
Homework/Reading: BioDesign section 1.1 and 1.2 (and make sure you explore ebiodesign.org), first blog entry (more below), Change by Design Chapters 2, background research for your patient
Day 2 (01.05)
Session 4: Human Centered Design 102: Journey Mapping and synthesis
Session 5: Needs Finding 101: Making observations and what is a “need statement”
Session 6: Present initial findings and goals from PHP
Session 6.5: Movie night @ Clemons from 6-8p
Homework/Reading: BioDesign section 1.3, meet with your patient, HW on visualization, read this article by Susannah Fox (https://medium.com/@SusannahFox/cystic-fibrosis-for-one-day-aefff669337a#.7kh9ca906).
Day 3 (01.06)
Session 7: Present your patient interviews and include disease fundamentals
Session 8: Human Centered Design 103: Visualization and Prototyping session
Session 9: Needs Finding 101: Need statement development and clinical research
Homework/Reading: BioDesign section 2.1-2.3, meet with your patient
Day 4 (01.07)
Session 10: First – a brief quiz on HIPAA. Then building needs statements
Session 11: Prototyping session II
Session 12:
Homework/Reading: BioDesign section 2.4 & 2.5, meet with your patient
Day 5 (01.08)
Session 12.5: Design critique/presentation on your own personal health project
Session 13: Design critique/presentation on your patient
Homework/Reading: BioDesign Section 3.1, 3.2, background research, meet with your patient, complete and grade your quiz
Day 6 (01.11)
Session 14: Building technical specifications and materials selection 101
Session 15: EndoNav Case
Session 16: Prototyping session III
Homework/Reading: BioDesign Section 4.1-4.4, meet with your patient
Day 7 (01.12)
Session 17: Marketing 101
Session 18: NovoNordisk case
Homework/Reading: BioDesign Section 4.5 & 4.6, meet with your patient
Day 8 (01.13)
Session 19: Marketing 102
Session 20: IP 101
Session 21: Clinical and Regulatory development
Homework/Reading: Design, design design
Day 9 (01.14)
Session 22: Office hours/lab hours
Session 23: Office hours/lab hours
Homework/Reading: Design, design design
Day 10 (01.15)
Final Review (please turn in with paper)
Final Paper – A 4 page grant proposal for your project. Should include – Abstract, introduction with clinical need and disease pathophys/pathoanatomy, technical description of the device or solution you are proposing (include schematics, engineering renderings, and drawings), proposed future experiments or direction (can be general) along with funding request and budget.
PHP – a maximum two page paper (include data in the two pages) writing your design process. What was learned in your initial interview, your partner’s goal(s), your recommendation, what data you chose to collect, and your conclusion. You can show the journey map in an appendix.
Why am I blogging?
It’s a very reasonable question and I am not 100% sure it is a great idea. We would prefer you spend time designing and actively engaging with patients. It is useful to reflect on the learning process, however. The blog is not intended to be an autobiography and it will only count towards your class participation.
So what do you have to do? You will be held accountable for 5-entries and this includes the first entry for Monday January 4. Each blog entry should address two questions as it pertains to your design process – “what am I doing and why am I doing it?” Blog entries should be 5-10 sentences and you will receive bonus for pictures, sketches, videos, etc.
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