Design For The Disabled As An Interdisciplinary Laboratory Project

The integration of design into engineering curricula is important for the education of wellqualified engineers.While all accredited engineering programs are required to provide a major capstone design experience, the integration of design throughout the curriculum is often challenging.The departments of biomedical engineering and industrial engineering at Western New England College have developed a design experience completed as a requirement in senior engineering laboratory courses.The design project experience is in addition to the capstone design courses.This experience was used to demonstrate students' ability to function on multidisciplinary teams, design a system within realistic constraints, and understand the impact of design solutions in a societal context.