Healthcare is an important focus in our product development institute from the early seventies on... more Healthcare is an important focus in our product development institute from the early seventies on. Last decennium every year about 25% of the students graduated on a thesis subject in the medical field. In 2011 eighteen of the fifty new masters in product development obtained their degree on a “Medic” subject. We highlight four of them: one product in preventive medicine, one in diagnostics and one in the therapeutic domain. The fourth example regards an instrument to support endoscopic assisted hip surgery. For each master thesis a patent search is required and a business model must be delivered.
Design education requires training methods that optimise students' ideation capacity of integ... more Design education requires training methods that optimise students' ideation capacity of integrated thinking. They are key in the process of a practice-centred core competency in the field of Product Development. The 'Technology', 'Human', 'Economy' - method (T.H.E.-method), is a visualized assessment (VA) tool based on Verhaert's method and transformed into a pedagogical assist that shows the balanced integration of economic,
Design education requires training methods that optimise students' ideation capacity of inte... more Design education requires training methods that optimise students' ideation capacity of integrated thinking. They are key in the process of a practice-centred core competency in the field of Product Development. The 'Technology', 'Human', 'Economy' - method (T.H.E.-method), is a visualized assessment (VA) tool based on Verhaert's method and transformed into a pedagogical assist that shows the balanced integration of economic, technological and human-related components over 24 sub-aspects. In this paper the T.H.E.-method is explained and tested among 33 students enrolled in the first year master's course during a total, integrated design process from the initial design, a tennis ball collector, to the final product proposal. As a result, 33 students realised an integrated product development project with the average value of 3.73 on T., 3.24 on H. and 2.47 on E. Moreover, the T.H.E.-method revealed that the 5 most stimulating sub-aspects w...
—Patients undergoing chemotherapy for the treatment of cancer often suffer from deterioration of ... more —Patients undergoing chemotherapy for the treatment of cancer often suffer from deterioration of extremities, such as neuropathy and onycholysis, a condition which leads to the partial detachment of the nail from the nail bed. To prevent these deterioration, cryotherapy is often used during the application of chemotherapy by means of e.g. frozen gel gloves or socks or ice baths. While effective, current cryotherapy is often unpleasant and unpractical for the patients involved such that the therapy is not accepted by a significant part of the patients involved. Furthermore, the classical cryotherapies leave little room for researching the underlying prevention mechanism through active control of the applied temperatures. A crucial step is to direct applied temperatures at minimizing the blood flow for it is widely assumed that the efficacy of the therapy lies in local vasoconstriction induced by the applied cooling, limiting the blood flow to the fingers. This paper proposes a platform which allows researchers to investigate the effect of controlled cooling on the blood flow in fingers and nail bed on blood circulation at extremities. Preliminary results indicate that local cooling indeed can invoke local vasoconstriction, resulting in a decreased blood flow measured using Laser-Doppler flowmetry.
Healthcare is an important focus in our product development institute from the early seventies on... more Healthcare is an important focus in our product development institute from the early seventies on. Last decennium every year about 25% of the students graduated on a thesis subject in the medical field. In 2011 eighteen of the fifty new masters in product development obtained their degree on a “Medic” subject. We highlight four of them: one product in preventive medicine, one in diagnostics and one in the therapeutic domain. The fourth example regards an instrument to support endoscopic assisted hip surgery. For each master thesis a patent search is required and a business model must be delivered.
Design education requires training methods that optimise students' ideation capacity of integ... more Design education requires training methods that optimise students' ideation capacity of integrated thinking. They are key in the process of a practice-centred core competency in the field of Product Development. The 'Technology', 'Human', 'Economy' - method (T.H.E.-method), is a visualized assessment (VA) tool based on Verhaert's method and transformed into a pedagogical assist that shows the balanced integration of economic,
Design education requires training methods that optimise students' ideation capacity of inte... more Design education requires training methods that optimise students' ideation capacity of integrated thinking. They are key in the process of a practice-centred core competency in the field of Product Development. The 'Technology', 'Human', 'Economy' - method (T.H.E.-method), is a visualized assessment (VA) tool based on Verhaert's method and transformed into a pedagogical assist that shows the balanced integration of economic, technological and human-related components over 24 sub-aspects. In this paper the T.H.E.-method is explained and tested among 33 students enrolled in the first year master's course during a total, integrated design process from the initial design, a tennis ball collector, to the final product proposal. As a result, 33 students realised an integrated product development project with the average value of 3.73 on T., 3.24 on H. and 2.47 on E. Moreover, the T.H.E.-method revealed that the 5 most stimulating sub-aspects w...
—Patients undergoing chemotherapy for the treatment of cancer often suffer from deterioration of ... more —Patients undergoing chemotherapy for the treatment of cancer often suffer from deterioration of extremities, such as neuropathy and onycholysis, a condition which leads to the partial detachment of the nail from the nail bed. To prevent these deterioration, cryotherapy is often used during the application of chemotherapy by means of e.g. frozen gel gloves or socks or ice baths. While effective, current cryotherapy is often unpleasant and unpractical for the patients involved such that the therapy is not accepted by a significant part of the patients involved. Furthermore, the classical cryotherapies leave little room for researching the underlying prevention mechanism through active control of the applied temperatures. A crucial step is to direct applied temperatures at minimizing the blood flow for it is widely assumed that the efficacy of the therapy lies in local vasoconstriction induced by the applied cooling, limiting the blood flow to the fingers. This paper proposes a platform which allows researchers to investigate the effect of controlled cooling on the blood flow in fingers and nail bed on blood circulation at extremities. Preliminary results indicate that local cooling indeed can invoke local vasoconstriction, resulting in a decreased blood flow measured using Laser-Doppler flowmetry.
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