Designing Assistive Technology
BWSI Assistive Technology is a challenge that teaches students product design, rapid prototyping, and product testing skills in the context of building a technology solution for people living with disabilities. Students learn about the experience of living with various types of disabilities, including challenges, adaptations, and assistive technologies that are used by different people. We then tackle real problems faced by people with disabilities or other difficulties with activities of daily living, and learn to work with the end users, stepping through the engineering design process together to come up with personalized, product solutions. Students will participate in activities such as user interviewing, fabrication, test plan development and execution, and product documentation, and results in products that are given to their end users, as well as the documents required for others to replicate the solution.
Build a Cubesat
Beaver Works Summer Institute will offer students the opportunity to design, build, and test a prototype CubeSat. Students will explore all the major subsystems of a satellite and get hands on experience with mechanical, electrical, and software engineering. This challenge will use these new skills to demonstrate a real CubeSat science mission in partnership with scientists from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Location
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA 02139
United States
Contact: bwsi-admin@mit.edu
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