Mission Statement

Our mission is to define, support, and promote the roles of rehabilitation engineers, technologists and technicians in research and development, education, manufacturing, and service delivery.

Rehabilitation Engineers & Technologists White Paper (PDF)

Objectives

• Define the roles, and publish competencies, of the rehab technologist and the rehab engineer.
• Develop a marketing plan and promote the rehabilitation technologist and rehabilitation engineer.
• Establish an up to date data base.
• Expand professional development based on membership requests.
• Expand continuing education opportunities.
• Expand mentoring opportunities
• Formalize outreach program to engineering students. Develop a presentation that can be delivered by CoP-04 members to university and high school groups to promote the field of rehabilitation engineering.
• Update resource list for university education.
• Promote disability awareness.
• Define mentoring needs of professionals desiring to be PE's.
• Determine Manufacturing, Research and Development needs of the group, and what CoP-04 can do to support their efforts
• Develop a forum to have access to current assistive technology research in collaboration with RERC's.

Officers

Chair: Seong-Hee Yoon, ATP/RET
E-mail: seonghee@med.umich.edu

Vice Chair: Sandra Meltzler, D. Sc., P.E.
E-mail: metzler.136@osu.edu

Vice Chair: Dan Duley, ATP
E-mail: dan@whill.us

Connect

All of the Communities of Practice can connect as communities through our new, online community platform, RESNA Connect! Access RESNA Connect and join the Engineers and Technologists CoP community to take part in discussions, share resources, and collaborate with fellow community members.