Bioengineering Innovation and Design - Global Health

4 Credits.

This course seeks to provide graduate students with an introduction to medical device design and innovation for global health. Students will work in teams to assess clinical and public health needs (identified during overseas clinical immersions during the previous semester), articulate specific gaps in the landscape of care delivery, design and develop potential solutions to those gaps, and propose an introduction, scale-up, and commercial sustainability plan. The cornerstone of the course is a project where teams conceive, design, prototype a physical product, and propose an introduction and scale-up plan. It is expected that this process will be iterative and will take into account user and stakeholder feedback from the field on multiple occasions throughout the academic year. Team presentations, design reviews, and graduate advisory committee meetings are supplemented with instruction from academic and practitioner faculty in the JHU Center for Bioengineering Design (CBID), on-the-ground advisers stationed in developing countries, and our partners from industry. For CBID MSE students only. Registration with instructor's permission only.