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Welcome to the TEAMS Academy's ATDF 2009 Home Page
What is ATDF?UMass Lowell’s Future Engineers Center is holding its 7th annual High School Assistive Technology Design Fair on May 16th or 23rd this year. The TEAMS Academy will join ~15 students from about 20 high schools in Massachusetts and New Hampshire who will demonstrate innovative projects designed to help disabled clients in their community tackle everyday tasks most people take for granted. ATDF Goals
Each team will find a client in their community and worked with that person to develop a specific need. You will use the engineering design process? to help frame the problem and develop design alternatives. Industry sponsors from Tyco Electronics, Philips Medical Systems, the Teradyne Corporation, and UMass Lowell’s College of Engineering will meet with teams to review their ideas and refine their concepts. Your team will then built prototypes and fabricated their final projects that will be presented at the fair, but more importantly to your client. Assistive Technology & Electronics (UMass Lowell Course #25.151, 3 credits)The TEAMS Academy is linking this program to an introductory electronics course, so hopefully we will see some interesting products that incorporate electronic gizmos your teams design and build. This college course is hosted by UMass Lowell's Assistive Technology Program (Department of Electrical Engineering). You might want to read the final report Δ (with selected project summaries & photos Δ) that summarizes the results of the 2007 ATDF program to get an idea of some of the projects built by innovative students (including three of your TEAMS peers!).
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