Rehabilitation Engineering and Therapeutic Applications

Catalog description

This course focuses on how to design and evaluate devices and systems that assist in the rehabilitation and therapy of individuals with physical or cognitive impairments. Through lectures and laboratory activities, students in the course explore how mobility aids, augmentative communications systems, and sensory aids, as well as digital therapeutic devices, are designed and implemented. Clinical applications covered in the course include therapies for rehabilitation from musculoskeletal sports injuries, stroke, and dementia. Assistive and virtual therapies to guide and motivate patients in their rehabilitation are also addressed and evaluated. (4 credits)