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Designing a New Drug Delivery Device

Designing a New Drug Delivery Device. An application of “design & build” principles Betsy Ameen and Chris Lundberg. New Advances. Where do ideas come from? How do you know if an idea is good (or not)? How do engineers develop and test their ideas?. Why Design & Build?. It’s fun!

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Designing a New Drug Delivery Device

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  1. Designing a New Drug Delivery Device An application of “design & build” principles Betsy Ameen and Chris Lundberg

  2. New Advances • Where do ideas come from? • How do you know if an idea is good (or not)? • How do engineers develop and test their ideas?

  3. Why Design & Build? • It’s fun! • It applies science to YOUR daily life • New advances are unique; we remember the strange and different… • … so we can tie methods of inquiry and design to the study of biotech advances.

  4. Designing a New Medical Device • Think how the scientific method and then “design & build” relates to the process of invention

  5. Life Sciences Nanotechnology Biotechnology Adv. Materials & Production Science and Technology: A convergence of

  6. Va Biotech Park

  7. Two Local Chesterfield Students – The Epicard • Formed their own company – Intelliject Evan & Eric Edwards, founders

  8. VCU Engineering The DaVinci Center

  9. How do New Inventions Happen? • Close observation • Sheer dumb luck – timing • Motivation -- $ ? • Search for an answer to a problem • Creative approaches and strategies • By asking, “what if?” and Brainstorming • Using “models” … followed by a period of testing or scientific analysis.

  10. The Engineer’s Design Process • Identify the Problem • Brainstorm • Design • Build – Test – Evaluate – Redesign • Share Solution

  11. Inventions: are PRODUCTS we create which are… • Unusual • Appropriate for a job • Transformed from something else • Condensed (refined after testing)

  12. Finding Your Problem Make a “bug list” of things that bother you… What “bugs” you? What can you improve? Pills too large? Unwieldy or impractical devices? Invasive or painful? Expensive medications? You can come up with an idea from your bug list!

  13. More Ways to Develop Ideas Combine Opposites! What is exactly opposite to my idea that I could somehow combine with it? Idea Opposite

  14. And More Invention Ideas! Use the SCAMPER Method: For my idea, what can I …. • Substitute • Combine • Adapt • Modify – Magnify – “Minify” • Put to other Uses • Reverse or Rearrange … to make it WORK! Photo credit: lbl.gov

  15. The Process of Invention and Science • An idea (or problem) = hypothesis • Develop a “bug” list = observe/describe • Build/design = testing • “Back to the drawing board” = rethink hypothesis and try a new variable • Establish criteria to evaluate = analysis of results • Will the public buy it? = conclusion

  16. Your Task in this Session: Design a new medical device that will solve a problem (or improve upon an existing solution) Create a prototype of your design that will model what it will look like and how it will work Share your creations with the class!

  17. Once begun is half-done! “If I have a thousand ideas a year, and only one turns out to be good, I’m satisfied.” Alfred Nobel

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