MBE3050: Medical Device Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Student Learning Outcomes:

• Be able to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability.
• Solve product design problems.
• Have an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility.
• Learn to effectively participate in team activities in the cross-functional product development process.
• Be able to define the design requirements.
• Be able to plan project goals, requirements, and timing.
• Be able to identify available and patent restricted technologies and apply that information to concept ideation.
• Be able to define technical specifications and criteria for validation/verification (V&V) of your concepts.
• Generate and communicate concepts both verbally and visually.
• Be able to present concept development efforts professionally.
• Learn how to use a journal/lab notebook that protects intellectual property and documents development.
• Learn and apply classical and computational engineering analysis methods, and conduct experiments to test product designs against pass/fail criteria.
• Learn and practice the building and testing of functional engineering prototypes.
• Utilizing all research and development efforts to conduct effective concept evaluation (pre-design Controls level design verification).
• Be able to write an acute preclinical or clinical study design and protocol as appropriate for medical device development.