title: NDSU undergraduate design projects for the disabled.
abstract: Disabled persons of average means cannot afford custom made devices or adaptations to manufactured devices to meet their individual needs. Consequently, many disabled individuals have not been able to live as independently as society demands. At North Dakota State University, the need to give undergraduate electrical engineering students practical design experience has been fulfilled by requiring the students to design and build adaptive devices for the disabled. Consequently, the successful results of this effort have fulfilled the needs of two diverse human groups--student engineers and the disabled community. Presented is an effective approach used at North Dakota State University to manage senior design students.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, North Dakota State University, Fargo 58105.
authors.forename: L S
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Baczkowski
authors.forename: J D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Enderle
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Krause
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Rawson
mesh_terms: D001698:Biomedical Engineering / Q000193:education*; D004867:Equipment Design; D009658:North Dakota; D012656:Self-Help Devices