Title
Design and development of an intelligent nursing bed — a pilot project of “joint assignment”
Abstract
The “joint assignment” is a creative bachelor education project for Biomedical Engineering (BME) in Shanghai University (SHU), China. The objective of this project is to improve students' capabilities in design thinking and teamwork through practices in the process of the design and development of complex medical product. As the first step, a pilot project “design and development of intelligent nursing bed” was set up in May 2015. This paper describes details of how project organization and management, various teaching methods and scientific evaluation approaches were achieved in this pilot project. For example, a method containing one main line and four branches is taken to manage the project and “prototyping model” was used as the main research approach. As a result a multi-win situation was achieved. The results showed, firstly, 62 bachelor students including 16 BME students were well trained. They improved themselves in use of practical tools, communication skills and scientific writing; Secondly, commercial companies received a nice product design on intelligent nursing bed, and have been working on industrializing it; Thirdly, the university and associated schools obtained an excellent practical education experience to supplement traditional class education; Fourthly and most importantly, requirements from end-users will be met. The results also showed that the “joint assignment” task could become a significant component in BME bachelor education.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/EMBC.2017.8036757
2017 39th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Beds,Pilot Projects,Students,Students, Nursing,Thinking,Writing
Teamwork,Nursing,Design thinking,Communication skills,Computer science,Nice,Scientific writing,Teaching method,Bachelor,Product design
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
2017
1557-170X
978-1-5090-2810-8
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.63
0
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jiehui Jiang110.96
Tingwei Liu210.63
Yuting Zhang3307.13
Yu Song41212.00
Mi Zhou594.87
Xiaosong Zheng692.78
Zhuang-zhi Yan7148.28