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RESNA Student Design Competition

By on March 16, 2010 in Other

Welcome to the Home Page for the RESNA Student Design Competition. This site, a joint project of RESNA and the AAC-RERC, contains student presentations that were accepted for the 2010 and 2011 RESNA conferences. Click to see the five 2011 Design Competition finalists, or a complete listing of submitted papers for 2011.

Complete instructions for submitting to the 2012 competition are now available here.

Ten semi-finalist teams win an all-expense paid trip for two team members to the RESNA Annual Conference, which is in Baltimore, MD from June 28- July 3, 2012. At the conference, students have the opportunity to present their designs, meet with developers, and network with assistive technology professionals. Up to five finalists are announced at the conference; every member of the finalist teams receives a free annual membership to RESNA (a $150 value), which enables them to continue to network actively with other professionals and participate in RESNA events.

Also, in addition to the 10 awards described above, The Center for the Translation of Rehabilitation Engineering Advances and Technology (TREAT) is partnering with RESNA to offer an award, “Technology Most Likely to Become Commercially Available,” to one of five finalists in the annual RESNA Student Design Competition. The award comes with a $500 cash prize to the winning team and an invitation for one team member to spend 3 weeks at the TREAT facilities in Lebanon, NH working with TREAT staff and resources to further develop the winning design and move it towards commercialization.

Student teams must register their intent to submit by April 27, 2012.
The final submission deadline is May 4, 2012 11:59 PM EST
The 2012 RESNA Conference will be held in Baltimore, June 28 – July 3.

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2011 Participant Feedback

2011 Participant Feedback

By on January 5, 2012 in Student Feedback

After the completion of the 2011 RESNA Student Design Competition, we surveyed the students who participated. These are their responses…

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Image shows third leg activated below the bass drum. The leg is clearly in contact with the floor like the other legs and taking part of the load.

Drum Roll, Please – A Customized Drum Kit (Duke University)

By on April 30, 2011 in 2011 participant

Dilip Nagarkar, Swetha Sundar, Chao Yin and Cristina Wong-Nomura (Duke University) designed a customized drum kit to provide comfortable musical recreation for a boy with TAR syndrome.

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Finite Element Analysis of ball headed bolt

Design and Experimental Evaluation of a Vertical Lift Walker for Sit-to-Stand Transition Assistance (Case Western Reserve University)

By on April 28, 2011 in 2011 participant, Wheeled Mobility Technologies

Thomas C. Bulea and Ronald J. Triolo (Case Western Reserve University)
Designed and experimentally validated a pneumatic lift assist walker for individuals with limited mobility from spinal cord injury

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Mobile Landmark Identification for Visually-Impaired and Blind Individuals (RIT)

By on April 28, 2011 in 2011 participant, Tech for Cognitive & Sensory Impairments

The primary goal of this project is to design a portable device that assists visually impaired and blind persons (VIBP) to select a bus and find the exact location of that bus at a bus stop.

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LCD and Camera

Achieving Mobility (Calvin College)

By on April 28, 2011 in 2011 Competition Semi-Finalist, 2011 participant, Wheeled Mobility Technologies

Dan Evans, Matt Last, Matt Rozema, and Rob VanderVennen (Calvin College) designed and built a highly customized electric stroller for a 10-year-old boy who has Spinal Muscular Atrophy.

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Rockstar Guitar Stand [Duke University]

By on April 28, 2011 in 2011 Competition Semi-Finalist, 2011 participant, Tech for Cognitive & Sensory Impairments

Rachel Belzer, Kristine Brown, Brendan Moore, and Al Samost [Duke University] designed a guitar and piano stand which attaches to a wheelchair to aid a client with Cerebral Palsy.

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Portable Sunshade

Portable Sunshade [Duke University]

By on April 28, 2011 in 2011 participant, Job & Environmental Accommodation

Henry Hwang, John Lee, Tamara Louie, Nicholas Ong (Duke University) designed a portable sunshade to provide a pleasant gardening experience for people with disabilities.

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Fig. 6 When done by hand, OE Enterprises shrink wrapped on average 250 bottles a day. With the EasyShrink machine, production has increased to about 700 bottles a day.

EasyShrink heat gun safety device (Duke University)

By on April 28, 2011 in 2011 Competition Finalist, 2011 participant, Job & Environmental Accommodation

Michael Chao, Ian King, Esther Lee, and Shengnan Xiang (Duke University) designed a heat gun safety device for employees with disabilities at OE Enterprises.

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table 2 comparison of slopes

Bowling Slide for Individuals Seated in Wheelchairs (University of Pittsburgh)

By on April 28, 2011 in 2011 participant, Computer Applications & Communication, Wheelchair Seating Technologies

Cheng-Shiu (Joshua) Chung, Xin Wang, Saleh AlQahtani
Designed the bowling slide for people in wheelchairs to play safely and happily.

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clinical use

Bilateral Exoskeleton Stroke Therapy (The B.E.S.T. Device) – The Catholic University of America

By on April 28, 2011 in 2011 participant

The objective of the senior design project was to design and fabricate a low cost, in-home, robotic controlled therapeutic system that opens and closes the right hand of a stroke patient.

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