2024 Faculty Courses School of Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering Graduate major in Engineering Sciences and Design
Design of Medical and Welfare Device
- Academic unit or major
- Graduate major in Engineering Sciences and Design
- Instructor(s)
- Wataru Hijikata
- Class Format
- Lecture (Face-to-face)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - 1-2 Mon
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- ESD.D404
- Number of credits
- 100
- Course offered
- 2024
- Offered quarter
- 3Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 14, 2025
- Language
- English
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
Medical and welfare devices have an important role in the treatment of disease and enhancement of quality of life in the aging society. This course provides design of the medical and welfare devices considering the characteristics and emotion of human based on some actual examples.
Course description and aims
Students will understand the basic design process of medical and welfare devices from the view point of human factors and emotional design.
Keywords
Medical devices, Welfare devices, Fuman factors, Emotional design, Fail safe, Biocompatibility, Design process
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
The class is made of lectures, discussions and reports.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Overview of medical and welfare devices | Understand the history and classifications of medical and welfare devices |
| Class 2 | Design of medical devices based on fuman factors and emotional design | Understand some examples of design utilizing fuman factors and emotional design on medical devices |
| Class 3 | Design of welfare devices based on fuman factors and emotional design | Understand some examples of design utilizing fuman factors on welfare devices |
| Class 4 | Electrically-powered active devices | Understand electrification of medical and welfare devices |
| Class 5 | Reliability engineering, Fail safe design | Understand fail safe design on medical and welfare devices |
| Class 6 | Biocompatibility design | Understand biocompatibility design on medical and welfare devices |
| Class 7 | Power transfer technology for implantable medical devices | Undestarnd power transmission methods for implantable medical devices. |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Textbook(s)
None required.
Reference books, course materials, etc.
All materials used in class can be found on T2SCHOLA.
Evaluation methods and criteria
Scores are based on reports and examination.
Related courses
- ESD.F404 ： Affective Engineering / Emotional Design
- HCB.M464 ： Introduction to Neural Engineering
- MEC.L432 ： Human-Centered Design
Prerequisites
No prerequisites.
Contact information (e-mail and phone) Notice : Please replace from ”[at]” to ”@”(half-width character).
Wataru HIJIKATA hijikata.w.aa[at]m.titech.ac.jp
Office hours
Contact by e-mail in advance.