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Implementing a Design Methodology: Concept for a Head Positioning Device for Hospital Beds
(University of Cape Town Libraries, 2019-07-29) Popoola, Oluwatoyin Pius; Balogun, Oluwaseyi Jessy; Irurhe, Nickolas; Adesogan, O.; Adewole, K.K.; Fasogbon, S.K.; Wessels, E.; Beukes, G.; Sivarasu, Sudesh
This chapter reports on the learning experience in a six-week Medical Device Design course in the Division of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Cape Town (UCT). The six participants were academics from the University of Lagos and the University of Ibadan in Nigeria, comprising five engineers (civil, mechanical, industrial and systems engineering) and a radiologist. The course facilitators consisted of two junior and one senior faculty members from UCT. The design process was guided by that of Zenios et al. (2015). The general steps followed in the design process are needs finding and needs screening, concept generation, concept selection, and prototyping. This chapter describes the convergence towards initially two and then one concept which met a medical need, was technically feasible within the available time, and had a reasonable likelihood of commercial viability. A head positioning device for hospital beds was selected as the focus of the course