Submit innovation proposal
Fri, Mar 19, 2027 · Week 9 · Biotechnology for Health (Biomedical Innovations)
Today's goal: Submit a feasibility-checked innovation design proposal that ties problem, criteria, and concept together.
This is a model of the work you should turn in today. Use it to check your own: match the structure and the level of detail, do not copy it. Your data and wording should be your own.
Title: External Ear-Infection Screener for At-Home Early Detection
Problem: About 1 in 3 children under 5 are diagnosed late with middle-ear infections because caregivers cannot tell infection from ordinary fussiness at home; target is to cut time-to-diagnosis from about 5 days to under 2.
Criteria and constraints: at least 90 percent agreement with a clinician, result under 60 seconds, under 5 dollars per use, build cost under 40 dollars, no insertion into the ear canal, buildable in one 3-week sprint.
Chosen concept: Concept B, an external ear-temperature and pressure sensor that reads infection signs without entering the ear canal, selected because it respects the no-insertion safety constraint while keeping accuracy high enough to prompt a clinic visit.
Feasibility check: Can it be built within the constraints? Yes for a screening prototype. Off-the-shelf infrared temperature and pressure sensors plus a phone app fit under the 40-dollar build cost and the 3-week sprint. It flags risk; it does not diagnose, which keeps it inside over-the-counter screening rules.
Expected benefit: earlier clinic visits, cutting average time-to-diagnosis toward the under-2-day target and reducing complications from delayed treatment.
One major risk: false reassurance. If the external sensor misses a real infection, a caregiver might delay care. Mitigation: the app always advises a clinic visit for persistent symptoms regardless of the reading.
(Tip: a feasibility check must answer one blunt question in a sentence: can this be built inside the stated constraints? Then name a real risk, not a fake one.)
This model shows the level of evidence and organization needed to complete: Ties the problem statement, criteria and constraints, and chosen concept into one proposal, adds a feasibility check, and states the expected benefit and one major risk.
- State the question and method.
- Present the observations and data with units.
- Explain the result, limitations, and next investigation.
Keep the structure. Replace the question, facts, measurements, and evidence. Then recheck units, vocabulary, and whether the conclusion goes beyond the evidence.
Also due today: Submit your innovation design proposal on Schoology.
Turn in: Innovation design proposal
Go to Schoology to turn this in.
Submit one PDF. Put your first and last name in the document header. Name the file: FirstName LastName - Assignment Title - YYYY-MM-DD.pdf.
Open Schoology PDF upload helpIf you cannot get in, see Mr. Mendoza. Do not skip the work.
Claim ceiling: Today's evidence supports a classroom claim about submit innovation proposal. It cannot prove causation, diagnose a real patient, or justify action outside this room.
One exam-style question that uses exactly what you practiced today. Try it before you reveal the answer, then read why each choice is right or wrong.
Tap an answer to see the full explanation. Nothing is recorded or graded.
It builds this reusable test skill: Adding a feasibility check with expected benefit and one major risk.
- Name the concept or data pattern being tested.
- Cross out choices that violate that rule or the evidence.
- Justify the best remaining choice before checking the answer.