An educational perspective to integrate the handicap in the engineering program: case study

Guillaume Thomann (1) , Rahi Rasoulifar (1) , Matthieu Museau (1) , Diana de Castro Perez (1)

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Research in design education recently showed an increasing interest the confrontation of engineering student and the real design activities. Although many student contributions to the industrial projects remained superficially and limited because of complexity and confidentiality issues, the user centric design activity proposes a new way to overcome the distance. The present paper is the result of our research and education program which aimed to provide the opportunity of student participation in the day to day engineering design activities in the context of design for the handicapped children. The specified context thought the student how to follow a generic design approach and how to face and over come the problems caused by having handicapped children who can not explain their needs, or even evaluate the designed prototype.

Mots clés: Design for All; Design for Disabled Children; Multidisciplinary Fields Projects; Music and Handicap

Domaines: Mécanique [physics.med-ph]

Guillaume Thomann, Rahi Rasoulifar, Matthieu Museau, Diana de Castro Perez. An educational perspective to integrate the handicap in the engineering program: case study. The 11th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education, E&PDE09, Sep 2009, Brighton, United Kingdom. 6 p. ⟨hal-00451842⟩