{"id":70683,"date":"2002-10-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-10-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-engineering-business-students-team-up-in-new-class-to-develop-and-market-assistive-devices\/"},"modified":"2002-10-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-10-24T00:00:00","slug":"uri-engineering-business-students-team-up-in-new-class-to-develop-and-market-assistive-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2002\/10\/uri-engineering-business-students-team-up-in-new-class-to-develop-and-market-assistive-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 engineering, business students team up in new class to develop and market assistive devices"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. — October 24, 2002 — Thanks to a $26,600 grant from the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance, engineering and business students at the 溏心vlog免费B站 are working in a new multidisciplinary course to develop and market assistive technology devices. <\/p>\n

\tThe project-based course teams students from the College of Engineering and the College of Business Administration to design, develop, patent, manufacture and market innovative devices that will help improve the quality of life for the elderly or those with disabilities. “I don\u2019t know of another entrepreneurship class in the country that has this feature of actually designing products while simultaneously developing business plans,” said 溏心vlog免费B站 Business Professor Robert Comerford. <\/p>\n

\tThe two-semester course is being taught by Comerford and Engineering Professors Musa Jouaneh and Ying Sun. According to Jouaneh, during the fall the students have been brainstorming product ideas, conducting patent and market research, and building a model of the product. A full-size prototype will be built during the spring semester and efforts will then be made to market it. <\/p>\n

\t“We\u2019re focusing on the development of assistive devices this year because 溏心vlog免费B站 has a strength in that area that we can build on,” said Jouaneh. “It\u2019s nice for students to work on products that are useful to those in need. And these devices aren\u2019t of interest to big companies because the potential market is small.” <\/p>\n

\tAdded Comerford, “the process we\u2019re going through very closely approximates the product development process that a lot of companies are doing now. The underlying point is to show the business and engineering students the importance of getting the financial and marketing issues aired early in the product development process because it speeds up the time to market.” <\/p>\n

\tThat point was driven home early in the class when one student team initially began work on a product for which the business students determined there was no market. Another team\u2019s product was deemed too expensive to compete in the marketplace without engineering modifications. <\/p>\n

\tAmong the products the student teams are developing are a device to make it easier for the elderly to open windows and a reach mechanism for placing and retrieving items on upper shelves.
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\nFor Information: Musa Jouaneh 874-2349, Robert Comerford 874-4315
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\nMedia Contact: Todd McLeish 874-7892\n\t<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. — October 24, 2002 — Thanks to a $26,600 grant from the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance, engineering and business students at the 溏心vlog免费B站 are working in a new multidisciplinary course to develop and market assistive technology devices. The project-based course teams students from the College of Engineering and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}