1. Engaging Engineering Technology Students in Heat Stress Related Research: Medical Device Design and Development Michael D. Whitt, PhD Rodney G. Handy, PhD, CIH

2. National Health Expenditures GDP Relationship

3. Growth in National Health Expenditures

4. Physiological Measurements Diagnostics – Early Detection Cardiovascular Disease –Stroke –Coronary Artery Disease & Peripheral Artery Disease –Congestive Heart Failure Cancer –Risk Factors –Early Detection Heat Stress –Heat Cramps –Heat Exhaustion –Heat Stroke

5. Engineering Technology Modeling Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) –Independent Variable/Dependent Variable Physiological Applications Physiology –Fundamental Understanding of Systems Signal Processing –Transducers –Electrodes –Amplifiers

6. Wet Bulb Globe Temperature (WBGT) RSS-214 Heat Stress Monitoring System (AFC International, Inc.) WBGT Requirements: Black Globe Thermometer (GT) Dry-Bulb Temperature (DB) Globe Temperature (GT)

7. WBGT Calculations NWB – National Wet-Bulb Temperature DB – Dry-Bulb Temperature GT – Globe Temperature Outdoors with solar loading –WBGT = 0.7NWB + 0.2GT + 0.1DB Indoors or Outdoors with no solar loading –WBGT = 0.7NWB + 0.3GT Acclimatization/Individualized Responses –Not incorporated

9. Educational Tool

10. Biopac Systems Inc. Starter System for Desktop and Notebook PCs (USB) Part #: MP100WSW System includes: 1 High performance data acquisition unit MP100ACE 1 Universal interface module UIM100C 1 AcqKnowledge software for Windows with digital manuals (searchable PDF files) ACK100W 1 Analog and digital connection cable set (2 cables) CBLS100 1 serial connection cable (MP100 to computer) CBLSERA 1 Windows USB adapter USB1W 1 12V Power transformer with cord (specify USA or EURO) AC100A

11. Biopac Sample Data Raw Cardiovascular Data

12. Biopac Sample Data Multiple Inputs

13. Biopac Sample Data Analysis – Fast Fourier Transform

14. Arterial Pressure-Area Curve Result of Biopac Data Acquisition

15. Conclusions Opportunities exist in Medical Device Design and Development Engineering Technology Students have fundamental background to develop marketable skills in this area Stress importance of understanding systems and modeling Proper educational tools are imperative