Design Competition | Electrical and Computer Engineering

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		Student/Patient-Caregiver meetings	Feedback from Patient-Caregiver
January 14, 6-8pm	Info. Session
January	Design Process Training
February 1	Team Registration Deadline
February	Problem Understanding & Solution Exploration	Feb 6: Support group meeting Feb 16: Meet and greet	Feedback from Patient & Caregiver
March 2-3	First Design-a-Hack-a-thon		Feedback from Mentor, Patient & Caregiver
March	Prototype Development	TBA	Feedback from Patient & Caregiver
April 6-7	Second Design-a-Hack-a-thon		Feedback from Mentor, Patient & Caregiver
April	Prototype Development	TBA	Feedback from Patient & Caregiver
May	Prototype Development	TBA	Feedback from Patient & Caregiver
June 1	Competition

Design-a-Hack-a-Thon #1 Schedule

Saturday Morning, March 2 (Warren Lecture Hall 2005)

9:00-9:10: Overview of the Design Competition: Truong
9:10-9:40: Technology, Healthcare & Design: Damon (IBM)
9:40-10:10: Parkinson Diseases: Challenge & Opportunity: Ryan
10:10-10:40: Design Process: Don
10:40-11:00: Question & Answer Session with Student: Truong
11:00-11:15: Ideate like an Entrepreneur: Rick
11:15-11:30: Presentation Template and Example: Rakesh
11:30-12:30: Input from patients & Caregivers
Around 12:30: Walk over to Jacobs Hall for lunch

Saturday Afternoon, March 2 (Jacobs Hall)

12:30-14:00: Meet & greet session with Patients and caregivers over lunch. Students and mentors will be assigned to rooms. Patients and caregivers are welcome to join. Patients and caregivers could leave at anytime.
14:00-17:00: Students work in team to come up with problems that they want to work on. Interaction/feedback with mentors.

Sunday, March 3 (Warren Lecture Hall 2005): 5 minutes pitch

10:00-12:00: First 15 teams present
12:00-13:00: Lunch
13:00-15:00: Last 15 teams present

Evaluation Rubric

1. The Need: Was the project truly aimed at the needs of patients and caregivers of Parkinson's disease? (10 points)

The NEED assessment and definition (this will include how many times the team met with the patients and caregivers, the quality of the interactions, how well the team understood the need, and how well it was defined).

2. The Process (10 points)

•The prototyping process (how well did the team test their initial ideas using rapid prototyping or equivalent methods. 5 points

•How well did the Prototype/Minimum Viable Product meet the need? 5 points

3. The Solution: How good is the Idea and the Design? (15 points)

•Quality of the Technical solution. 10 points

•How scalable/commercializable the idea is. 5 points

4. The Presentation: Quality of the Presentation (5 points)

•Oral presentation: engaged audience, presented the information clearly, and stayed within allotted time.

•Poster: Information presented in such way that the need, process and solution are easily understood.

Total assessment: 40 points