• Senior year-long course
  
  
• Teams of 4 or 5 students work on one problem for the whole year taking it from design problem formulation to prototyping and testing
  • Generate a design solution to a biomedical problem
  • Teams build a prototype of the device
  • Test and prove that their device is effective
    
    
• Along the way the teams also
  • Develop business and marketing plans
  • Learn about historical biomedical failures to avoid
  • Study ethical issues that they may face in their careers
  • Develop a business and marketing plan for their devices
    
    
• Innovative Projects come from the following sources:
  • Physicians in the Texas Medical Center
  • NASA Texas Space Grant Consortium
  • Nanotechnology Projects
  • Research Tools for Rice Faculty
  • Global Health Technology Needs
  • Industry

 
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