Cost benefit analysis.
Image that you take a separate engineering class that requires you to design and prototype a widget in three months. The probability that someone else can also design, build and ship the same widget in three months is very high or in business terms, there's a low barrier to entry in your market.
Let's say that you do cost benefit analysis and determine that it only takes an additional 10 design hours making your widget accessible AND it would only add two cents to the cost of manufacture. Congratulations, you've just earned a better grade, expanded your market and create
Cost benefit analysis.
Image that you take a separate engineering class that requires you to design and prototype a widget in three months. The probability that someone else can also design, build and ship the same widget in three months is very high or in business terms, there's a low barrier to entry in your market.
Let's say that you do cost benefit analysis and determine that it only takes an additional 10 design hours making your widget accessible AND it would only add two cents to the cost of manufacture. Congratulations, you've just earned a better grade, expanded your market and created a near monopoly for your product simply because no one else will bother.
(Sadly, that's the truth. Engineers who don't know any blind people typically won't even ask how a blind person might use their product.)
This principle is not limited to manufactured widgets. If you end up designing buildings and other civic infrastructure, you need to allocate space for wheelchair ramps and railing. Adding those after the fact, is extremely costly especially if land is scarce.
Assuming my company wanted to build a new office building, I would prefer to hire architectural engineers that think about accessibility options (and their costs) from day one, as opposed to engineers that would submit plans to the city for review and then be told said plans were not ADA compliant.
Interesting question. I've never thought of it before, so I've been thinking about this for the past half an hour. I think, to be honest, as an engineering student I would like to study about disabilities, how and why they work the way they do, the mechanism of the disabilities, rather than studying about disabled people's rights.
There was a Cognition Lab in my undergrads university. Some really cool stuff was carried out there. I had friends working on mapping brain waves into electrical signals which were then used to move, say, a wheelchair by simply thinking about it. Some other friends we
Interesting question. I've never thought of it before, so I've been thinking about this for the past half an hour. I think, to be honest, as an engineering student I would like to study about disabilities, how and why they work the way they do, the mechanism of the disabilities, rather than studying about disabled people's rights.
There was a Cognition Lab in my undergrads university. Some really cool stuff was carried out there. I had friends working on mapping brain waves into electrical signals which were then used to move, say, a wheelchair by simply thinking about it. Some other friends were working on a bionic hand, specifically on making a robotic fist, and improving its grabbing technique for different kinds of objects (for instance, we grab an egg very differently than a suitcase). So as you can see, all these researches could prove to be very beneficial to disabled people.
However, we don't have a specific course on what exact difficulties do disabled people have to encounter. So we have to take guesses based on our own findings, which might not be always true for all kinds of disabilities. For instance, what are the difficulties faced by someone using a bionic arm? What are the hindrances encountered by speech impaired people using a software to talk (like the one Stephen Hawking uses)? Etc.
So it'd be nice to have a course or two as electives in engineering programs, so that people who are interested in it, or want to do research in that direction, can benefit from it.
Disability Studies is a transdisciplinary area of scholarship, meaning that it is a set of perspectives that can be applied to the study of disability in a variety of academic disciplines. Its perspectives are largely rooted in the activism of the UK and US Disability Rights Movements of the 1970s. The most significant feature of Disability Studies is the approach to disability as a social, culture, historical and environmentally determined experience, more so than a pathological impairment. This approach is grounded especially by the social model of disability that externalizes the source of
Disability Studies is a transdisciplinary area of scholarship, meaning that it is a set of perspectives that can be applied to the study of disability in a variety of academic disciplines. Its perspectives are largely rooted in the activism of the UK and US Disability Rights Movements of the 1970s. The most significant feature of Disability Studies is the approach to disability as a social, culture, historical and environmentally determined experience, more so than a pathological impairment. This approach is grounded especially by the social model of disability that externalizes the source of disability to the social and physical environment.
Disability Studies is an important enterprise for a variety of reasons. First, it offers a more holistic view of disability that has been relatively absent in traditional medical model driven approaches. These traditional views are dominated by medical and rehabilitation scholarship that focuses primarily on the physiological source of impairment and subsequent remediation of this pathology. These views tend to individualize the experience of disability and suggest personal responsibility for negotiating disability-related issues. This isolatled people with disabilities from one another who may share features of social oppression that stem from physical/mental difference. Disability Studies’ emphasis on the social model works to correct the isolating force of the medical model by pointing to the systematic forces that affect disability experience (e.g. institutional arrangements, public policy, representations, historical treatment, etc). In this way, DS also provides a conception of disability as a minority group identity rather than an idiosyncratic experience of deviance. DS also encourages perspectives of people with disabilities to be heard in order to understand the insider position. The consequence of this has been the development of disability cultural production including the Disability Arts movement. Finally, by legitimizing a variety of disability perspectives, DS has been able to offer critical analysis of intersectional and global disability experiences.
This is a brief snapshot of what DS offers. I would encourage reading more on the topic. I would recommend Linton’s “Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Power” as an accessible introductory text.
This is a good question that does actually have an answer. Disability Studies is an interdisciplinary field of academic study that bridges across the humanities and social sciences. The goal is often to contextualise the receptions and perceptions of disability in society and cultural production. Critical Disability Studies is an umbrella term for a particular research methodology that encompasses other theoretical (critical) research disciplines such as Queer Studies, Gender Studies, and Critical Race Theory.
Hope this helps!
Moving your butt from a wheelchair to a toilet seat is no easy task. The wheelchair arms can be dropped out of the way, however, simultaneously lifting your weight, then transferring your body from the chair to the toilet is not easy and can be injurious.
What is needed is a swinging mechanism that is either bolted to ceiling joists or supported by a stand-alone rack. Humans can lift more weight by using their arms to pull down than they can by pushing up. So the lifting should be done by pulling on hanging stirrups. The point that the stirrups hang down from needs to be directly above the toil
Moving your butt from a wheelchair to a toilet seat is no easy task. The wheelchair arms can be dropped out of the way, however, simultaneously lifting your weight, then transferring your body from the chair to the toilet is not easy and can be injurious.
What is needed is a swinging mechanism that is either bolted to ceiling joists or supported by a stand-alone rack. Humans can lift more weight by using their arms to pull down than they can by pushing up. So the lifting should be done by pulling on hanging stirrups. The point that the stirrups hang down from needs to be directly above the toilet when moving from the chair, or directly above the chair when moving from the toilet. To move that point of attachment back and forth, will require the stirrups to be attached to poles rather than straps. The poles will be needed to push a trolley between the two points. When the trolley is above the point that the user wants to go, they will have to use their weight to pull the trolley down against a spring and into a notch that will prevent it from moving during the transfer.
Condensation will be a problem if the mechanism is used near a bath or shower, so it must be corrosion resistant.
Lawyers will advise you that such a product will have too much liability, but they will probably be the first to buy one if they are wheelchair ridden. Don’t listen to them.
Good luck on your project. Post updates. I will follow this thread.
No clue. Call them and ask. Hum. I put the term in my search engine (Bing). They said critical means that they study social barriers to people who have been labeled disabled. I imagine that just plain old disability studies probably focuses solely in habilitation or rehabilitation. Maybe Vocational Rehabilitation and/or evaluation and testing to assess needs.
The first may be more like Women’s St
No clue. Call them and ask. Hum. I put the term in my search engine (Bing). They said critical means that they study social barriers to people who have been labeled disabled. I imagine that just plain old disability studies probably focuses solely in habilitation or rehabilitation. Maybe Vocational Rehabilitation and/or evaluation and testing to assess needs.
The first may be more like Women’s Studies or Black Studies. The second likely to be in a rehabilitation c...
The best course of study for someone disabled that makes perfect sense is internet marketing with a fall back of accounting. Now, here is the deal. There is nothing more satisfactory than working for yourself. The problem is, the dream of lifting yourself into the perfect opportunity is never going to happen. Lets be realistic. Can you get hired tomorrow by the X, the Y or the Z company tomorrow? The answer is: maybe.
You truly have a better chance of building a life using the suggested internet marketing with a fall back of accounting. The most difficult part of any adventure is getting starte
The best course of study for someone disabled that makes perfect sense is internet marketing with a fall back of accounting. Now, here is the deal. There is nothing more satisfactory than working for yourself. The problem is, the dream of lifting yourself into the perfect opportunity is never going to happen. Lets be realistic. Can you get hired tomorrow by the X, the Y or the Z company tomorrow? The answer is: maybe.
You truly have a better chance of building a life using the suggested internet marketing with a fall back of accounting. The most difficult part of any adventure is getting started and if you have a successful teacher already, then the likely hood of your success would be very good.
Yes it is. Don’t ever let yourself be discouraged by a handicap you have, or what other people think of it.
One of the best technical leaders (IT Architect) I have met in my career is practically blind, he cannot see anything on one eye and less than 50% on the other eye. You might think that this is a severe problem for his daily job, but he managed to work around his handicaps and constantly advance his career.
As an engineer you are expected to think and solve problems… you are not required to lift things. Being able to “use your brain” and to type is sufficient. Further there is usually a hi
Yes it is. Don’t ever let yourself be discouraged by a handicap you have, or what other people think of it.
One of the best technical leaders (IT Architect) I have met in my career is practically blind, he cannot see anything on one eye and less than 50% on the other eye. You might think that this is a severe problem for his daily job, but he managed to work around his handicaps and constantly advance his career.
As an engineer you are expected to think and solve problems… you are not required to lift things. Being able to “use your brain” and to type is sufficient. Further there is usually a high degree of team spirit amongst engineers, so there will likely alway be somebody around, who is willing to give you a hand.
There might be challenges if your area of engineering involves being on construction sites a lot, or travelling a lot to client locations. If you feel though that you can do a good job, then go for it, you will find a solution and hopefully find an employer who is supporting you.
Concerning getting a job, I can tell you that there are a lot of companies (IBM just being one example) that foster diversity and don’t make a handicap like yours a factor for hiring, they will just treat you like any other applicant.
WADR to Ms Lockwood, I wish for her sister's sake that some one had taken the view I am about to advocate, and which view her SEVERAL DIFFERENT SUCCESSFUL CAREERS SHOW SHE WAS CAPABLE OF.
POOR EYESIGHT SHOULD NOT PREVENT TRYING FOR THE PROFESSION OF YOUR DREAMS. She should have been encouraged more.
My eyes stink. Without glasses, I am in deep ****. Luckily, I am not blind, but in the two professions I have done well in, I have had blind colleagues. Do they have difficulties to overcome? Most certainly. Did they succeed? Yes. Ms Lockwood's sister (in an adjoining Answer in this Thread) did well
WADR to Ms Lockwood, I wish for her sister's sake that some one had taken the view I am about to advocate, and which view her SEVERAL DIFFERENT SUCCESSFUL CAREERS SHOW SHE WAS CAPABLE OF.
POOR EYESIGHT SHOULD NOT PREVENT TRYING FOR THE PROFESSION OF YOUR DREAMS. She should have been encouraged more.
My eyes stink. Without glasses, I am in deep ****. Luckily, I am not blind, but in the two professions I have done well in, I have had blind colleagues. Do they have difficulties to overcome? Most certainly. Did they succeed? Yes. Ms Lockwood's sister (in an adjoining Answer in this Thread) did well in several areas that no one might have expected. Smart talented brave lady.
Back to the original form of the Question. Which engineering discipline? EE comes to mind -- it has more visualization and possibly less hands-on than others. Similarly CS -- Ms Lockwood's sister (blind) was a Programmer. There are even some sub-disciplines of Aero which might fit. Just how bad is this person's visual impairment?
Best wishes.
On face, these questions are an insulting combination of narrow thinking about the capabilities of people who have disabilities on top of a blanket assumption that any success or advancement on their part are unearned the “normal” way but are only the result of “special” help.
May people who have some sort of disability apply to medical school? Of course. Why would you imagine otherwise? Are you imagining it should be illegal to deny applications to any group on account of a physical characteristic? Would race be a physical characteristic? Deafness? Who might be the arbiter of this?
Assuming you
On face, these questions are an insulting combination of narrow thinking about the capabilities of people who have disabilities on top of a blanket assumption that any success or advancement on their part are unearned the “normal” way but are only the result of “special” help.
May people who have some sort of disability apply to medical school? Of course. Why would you imagine otherwise? Are you imagining it should be illegal to deny applications to any group on account of a physical characteristic? Would race be a physical characteristic? Deafness? Who might be the arbiter of this?
Assuming you already knew that first question was ridiculously exclusionary, I can only ask why the second? Do you believe physical characteristics are they same as mental characteristics? Does the name Steven Hawkings ring a bell?
And what is it with able bodied people always thinking that disabled people get help with everything? I can’t even begin to tell you how ridiculous this is!!! I mean, look where we are right this second. I am responding to the question of a person who clearly has an problem and some insulting biases against disabled people. How many points do I get for this?
My partner used to work for a prosthetics and assistive technology company and one of the big projects was a tray you could attach to a wheel chair (like those folding desktops you have in lecture hall seats).
Accessories like drink holders, mirrors, smart phone stands and storage seem like good opportunities and working with the space confines and moving parts of wheelchairs without interfering with their functions is a good way to demonstrate engineering prowess.
Disability studies are a sociological perspective on ‘disabilities’ in every day life. Instead of looking at people with so called ‘disabilities’ they examine the people themselves, and the consequences and effects of being labelled as having a ‘disability’ on them. They matter a lot because people with ‘disabilities’ are often treated as objects and are dehumanized like this (warning its absolutely disgusting):
The Disability Studies look on them as human beings and sees the so called ‘disabilities’ as differences and look at the affect of being labelled so n
Disability studies are a sociological perspective on ‘disabilities’ in every day life. Instead of looking at people with so called ‘disabilities’ they examine the people themselves, and the consequences and effects of being labelled as having a ‘disability’ on them. They matter a lot because people with ‘disabilities’ are often treated as objects and are dehumanized like this (warning its absolutely disgusting):
The Disability Studies look on them as human beings and sees the so called ‘disabilities’ as differences and look at the affect of being labelled so negatively has on them. This raises awareness as they have also done with other similar topics such as: sexuality, age, class and race.
Hope this helped. Thanks for reading :).
Because disabilities are multi-levels! My fingers won’t bend; holding a cup is dangerous; my broken back pain interferes with remembering; others can’t see; some hear every NOISE because they are losing their hearing. College disability ramps included only 3 steps; I had an updated shopping cart. How well did that do for hands that cannot grasp and lift! I drew pictures for my economics’ class tests. The professor put them into his next economics book!
People tell you to imagine the possibilities. Well, now imagine ALL the ways those possibilities can deterred!
In the Us they have rights under federal law, including the FEDERAL Rehabilitation Act, Title 504, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and IDEA- individualizeed Disabled Education Act. Most states also have laws that do not supercede federal law, and some some jurisdictions, too. They number in the hundreds. ,
First I wish to say please avoid saying handicapped it's better to use Physically challged.
Now let's jump into the answer, yes for sure a physically challenged person can pursue civil engineering. When a person without two legs can climb Mount Everest then why can't be a civil engineer?
There's is lot of opportunities in civil engineering don't just imagine only the person in the hard site work is only things civil engineering can get.
There is also white collar jobs for civil engineers.
For decades, most colleges and universities have been making the faculty and staff and students aware of the needs of students with special needs. Offices have been established at most colleges and universities and there is usually one or two individuals who do nothing but work in this realm. There are sensitivity trainings- specialists come in to do workshops and in large universities there are often 4–5–6 people who do nothing but work with students who MAY have a disability or who may have special medical needs or other issues. There is almost universal outreach on the first day of classes
For decades, most colleges and universities have been making the faculty and staff and students aware of the needs of students with special needs. Offices have been established at most colleges and universities and there is usually one or two individuals who do nothing but work in this realm. There are sensitivity trainings- specialists come in to do workshops and in large universities there are often 4–5–6 people who do nothing but work with students who MAY have a disability or who may have special medical needs or other issues. There is almost universal outreach on the first day of classes and almost all syllabi contain some reference to where students can go for assistance on campus- there may be a phone number or office or e-mail address or even the name of a contact person !
This is a hard question. My sister, blind since age 8, would have been an engineer if she had retained her sight.
Instead, she worked as a computer programmer originally, later as a translator (French to English) and a teacher of computer programs, and iPhone apps for blind people.
You could be an advisor to civil engineers, to make road systems and urban planning blind-friendly, and generally handicapped-friendly. You could work on inventing systems to help blind people, such as computer programs.
Maybe something in sound engineering: I don’t know much about this though.
Let’s be clear about this. Students have the SAME human rights [the only kind] as everyone else, adults for example. Many people make the mistake of calling special “privileges” rights. They are not.
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There is a long list of types of disabilities; so, answers would vary greatly. Accurate answers cannot be described without specific disability being named.
Any courses that interest them, except some physical education ones.
See the Americans with Disabilities Act for provisions for disabled persons. Nothing special for doctors or engineers.
Think for a minute.
Wouldn’t it make a difference what the disability is?
Next time try asking a question that can be answered.
If you’re asking what college courses, there are plenty that a person in a wheelchair can conceivably take. I would imagine things like dance may be a problem, but for an anthropology or math class, there shouldn’t be any real issues.
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It depends of the handicap the person has. When I was studying medicine there was a Dermatologist who had only one arm. I knew a surgeon who had 4 fingers in one hand (he didn't have the little finger). So it depends on the handicap and what course one wants to go throug
It will vary depending on the student. Find out what each student is interested in, then find books on those subjects. That’s the best way to encourage reading and learning, IMO.
There are many; here are just a few
* Patent Law ; actually you need to have an engineering or science background to become a patent agent
* Sales
* Product management
*Product marketing
* Business
* Technical writing
* Science Journalism
*Finance
*Stock market trading
The person shd have courage to stand in hot sun and carry out the surveying works like the operations of theodollite,levelling instruments and preparation of engg drawings and in such a case the person can work as a QS in a site
He may work as a structural engg designer too
There are many courses being offered check out TISS rehab council Vidya Sagar n many other NGOs on Google. They make regular announcements. Alternatively many disability groups too share information .keep reading the papers always for more updates
A field that seems easy to one student may seem super tough to another. Thus, there is no standard, be all end all answer to your question. If you love what you are learning, it will come easily or easier to you.
Most common subject is EG(Engineering Graphics)
Other subjects include C Programming, MOS, Maths etc.
