[bioundgrd] HST.426 Maker Lab: Construction Set Design for Health Devices

[Joyce Roberge]

HST.426 Maker Lab: Construction Set Design for Health Devices
T 3-4p E25-117 (LECTURE)
R 3-5p E25-533 (LAB - taught in MITs new Medical Maker Space!)

KIT DESIGN
PATIENT GENERATED DATA
LIFE SCIENCES PROTOTYPING
DIGITAL FABRICATION PROTOTYPING

The disparities in affordable healthcare technology are a growing part of increasing healthcare costs globally. This course aims to teach affordable prototyping and design strategies for health technology and medicine that can be applied to improve patient care in a variety of settings: both low-income and high-income economies, at patients' homes and in hospitals.

Using Patient-Generated Data Devices as a learning model, students will design affordable devices that are used by patients to manage their health. Using Construction Sets for Health as a strategy, students will explore the diversity of possibilities that can be applied when patients are empowered to design their own solutions. Students will participate in a team project in one of four design/mentor tracks, supported by lectures and hands-on labs taught in MITs new Medical Makerspace.

HST.426 Students have access to an expansive library of micro controllers, sensors, Universal laser cutter, Objet 3D printer, a variety of desktop 3D printers, CNC, thermoformer along with an entire BL2 wetlab for experimentation and design of diagnostics and therapeutics.

Lab topics include: design of sensorized rehabilitation devices for orthopedic surgery and creating dengue point of care diagnostic kits for scientists in Honduras.

Contact akyoung at mit.edu<mailto:akyoung at mit.edu> to register





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