Date: Wednesday, May 17, 2023 - Wednesday, May 17, 2023
Location: Zoom via RESNA Learn
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Eastern
Speaker: David L. Jaffe, MS - RESNA Fellow
Abstract:
This workshop presentation webinar will focus on engaging university students in assistive technology projects. Topics will include:
- Soliciting, identifying, and describing suitable projects,
- Working with the community,
- Evaluating risk of harm,
- Producing project descriptions,
- Pitching projects to the class,
- Forming teams,
- Following an engineering design process,
- Managing student team progress,
- Communicating with teams,
- Conducting project presentations and demonstrations,
- Defining report requirements,
- Grading, and
- Project summary - 2023
Presenter Bio:
David L. Jaffe holds a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan and a MS degree in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern University.
Prior to coming to Stanford, Dave was a Research Biomedical Engineer at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System's Rehabilitation Research and Development Center. His interests there were designing, developing, testing, and bringing to market microcomputer-based devices for veterans with disabilities including communication, mobility, and information systems. He worked on several VA assistive technology research projects including an powered wheelchair interface for individuals with quadriplegia, an electro-mechanical fingerspelling hand that served as a communication device for people who are deaf/blind, a system that explored virtual reality techniques to train individuals with gait deficits to improve their walking, and a project that employed a computer-based simulation system to assess and improve the driving ability of individuals after brain injury.
In addition to organizing this Stanford course, ENGR110/210: Perspectives in Assistive Technology, he contributes to other Stanford courses including defining the quarterly course projects in ME218: Smart Product Design and ME310: Engineering Design Entrepreneurship and Innovation as well as mentoring students working on assistive technology projects throughout the year.
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