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    Award Winning Team: Pulse-Patch



    Best Overall Achievement - This award is presented to the group that exemplified excellence in manageing the design process, effectively executing the plan as a team, and developing a prototype that shows promise towards further development and subsequent commercialization. The group excelled throughout the semester and showed a strong understanding of all aspects of medical device design and combined this with strong teamwork and an innovative approach to a relevant clinical problem.

Become a Coach

Like a sports team, our bioDesign teams greatly benefit from the experience and knowledge of a coach. Our design coaches are industry trained engineers with design experience and familiarity with team interactions. Each team is assigned a bioDesign coach who provides guidance and insight during the two semester design process.

Coaching these teams requires commitment, availability and a willingness to teach - it’s quite different from being the team leader or manager. While the student teams collaborate with clinicians and faculty, coaches play a key role in streamlining team interactions and providing real world technical insight in product design and development to guide the teams towards their project goals. All of our design coaches are required to sign non-disclosure agreements, learn our Design Control SOPs and commit to both Spring and Fall semesters. The time commitment is typically 1-2 hours per week.

If you’d like to become a Utah bioDesign coach and would like more information, contact Deb Dixon.