Engineering Design for Assistive Tech
Beaver Works Assistive Technology is a set of courses offered under the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Beaver Works Summer Institute.
These courses are focused on teaching the engineering design process to high school students in the context of prototyping products that improve the lives of people with disabilities.
The Spring Crash Course is a synchronous course for 9th and 10th grade students, focused on designing 3D printed educational aids for use by visually impaired learners.
The Online Spring Course is an asynchrnous EdX course that introduces the engineering design process in the assistive technology (AT) context and is a prerequisite for the Summer Course.
The Summer Course is a synchronous course where students design, prototype, and test AT solutions with local co-designers. This course was offered in person in 2019, and will be offered virtually in 2021.
