Medical Technology
Interdisciplinary Research in Smart Medical Devices: Experiences in the laboratory, internships, and/or working as research assistants help expose students to the real-world problems involved in technology transfer and give students an advantage in the job market. The training experience will involve one week of experimental rotations in which students will observe manufacturing practices, be exposed to the current problems faced in medical device development and be matched with a project and clinical mentor. Eight weeks of challenging research will then ensue that uses smart devices to address the critical healthcare issues discovered.
Design & Education
Sustainable design principles support developing strategies to improve longevity and reusability across some or all levels of device parts; for instance, through optimized modular design and common-parts sharing. Our NRT initiative addresses the fundamental need to transfer the results of academic endeavors to real-world domains, which is important given the focus of this NRT initiative. Through participatory design with clinical partners, this initiative will ensure that our research and education empower trainees to develop solutions that are applicable to the real world.
Materials & Manufacturing
Biocompatible materials prevent unwanted cytotoxicity, inflammation, and sensor degradation in smart medical devices. Additive manufacturing is a bottom-up fabrication method such as screen printing, inkjet printing, and dispensing printing that do not need etching with harsh chemicals and expensive facilities to maintain resolutions and particle controls. Smart medical devices are portable, multimodal sensor-based technologies that enable remote homecare for personalized health monitoring.
Partnership
Our NRT initiative addresses the fundamental need to transfer the results of academic endeavors to real-world domains, which is important given the focus of this NRT initiative. Through participatory design with clinical partners, this initiative will ensure that our research and education empower trainees to develop solutions that are applicable to the real world. Furthermore, we aim to foster a culture of invention, innovation, and commercialization among our students by forging collaborative links between their research and challenges related to healthcare needs through interaction with our medical product accelerator as well as entrepreneurship training with help from student incubator programs already in existence at Georgia Tech and our industry advisors.