In this week’s lecture we approached one of the final steps of the design process: determining build and market feasibility of a product. Determining these feasibilities is critical for estimating the success of a product. If, for example, research...More

In this week’s lectures we learned about a few different inventions and innovations that revolutionized medicine and healthcare. In learning about these inventions, we also learned that some were adopted much more rapidly than others and it was inte...More

During this week’s lectures we moved forward into the next step of the design process to pretotyping. Pretotyping provides a very rudimentary and simple display of a design idea. Pretotypes can be created using any common household items put togethe...More

During this week of lectures and discussion we were able to expand on what we covered last week and look at the material from a new perspective. Instead of focusing on the needs statements from a critical point of view, we were asked to take the mor...More

This week we focused on human-centered design in lectures and became familiar with this sort of design process. Several ground-breaking inventions and innovations were highlighted that were conceived using the human-centered design process. It was s...More

This was another week full of eye-opening information and discussions on the practicality of various medical devices for use in areas such as West Africa

The week began with a lecture investigating hospitals and different standards of physician he...More

This week we turned to the World Health Organization’s general statistics on mortality and life in Sierra Leone and the United States and compared the numbers between the two countries. In comparing these two, we asked what factors could be at play...More

I have really enjoyed this first week of ENG 298. I had a great time reading my classmate’s introductions and getting to know all of them! After a full week of using Scholar I think I am starting to get the hang of it and really like the format of t...More