Project Overview | Project Selection | Project Specs

Project Overview

The primary work in this course is done in a project team. Teams will be challenged to identify an unsolved clinical or research problem in diabetes (or another disease area); investigate existing solutions to the problem and evaluate their advantages and limitations; and develop a medically and physiologically plausible improvement or novel solution to the problem.

The process for meeting the challenge can be divided into two phases: project team formation and project group work. During project team formation, students will be asked to share information about themselves and their interests in project areas.The information you and your fellow students provide will help you form an interdisciplinary project team aimed at tackling an unsolved clinical or research problem.

Project group work involves working with your team to learn about the problem, research existing solutions, invent and evaluate improvements, and prepare a series of project deliverables. The project deliverables are central to the course and will be a major factor in your overall grade. Although deliverables will be submitted as a group, your individual contribution will be evaluated.

A framework for forming groups and selecting project topics can be found on the Project Selection page, and requirements for executing the project work is detailed on the Project Specs page.