Design Studio

Catalog description

This course is intended to provide students with a realistic design experience from virtual design, to rapid prototype fabrication, to testing, through redesign. It will focus on the practical application of leading commercial design software, including the creative extension of this software to innovate research applications. The course will be project intensive with commensurate report submissions and future design recommendations. Projects will include analyses of existing clinical problems, as well as research development of cell scaffolds and cell mechanotransduction.