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| QL Helping American Heroes |
Published: 07/29/2009 Author: submitted: Chris Hill
Posted On: July 29, 2009 at 8:18 AM By: |
Finally an institution of higher education wants to help the good
guys. Please spread this far and wide to see if we can get some
OIF/OEF vets some assistance. Thanks much. Manchu.
Introduction - Quality of Life Plus (QL ) was founded to generate and
foster innovations to aid and improve the quality of life for those
injured in the line of duty. To complement this mission, it is
important to identify the various stakeholder groups and distinguish
and define motivating factors that will encourage positive
participation designed to ensure the long term success of QL . This
document will broadly define the various stakeholders as a precursor
to conducting validation exercises (workshops) that will further
define and clarify success factors unique to each. This will build a
stronger organization by facilitating the early alignment of interests
of those associated with the QL Program.
Heroes/Patriots – inspire the entire QL organization and everyone
associated with it. These heroes are active duty and discharged first
responders, military and federal employees injured in the line of
duty. They provide inspiration by presenting “challenges” encountered
in their day-to-day lives that are a direct result of their injuries.
These challenges can be anything that improves how a hero might live,
work or play. These challenges are presented to QL by heroes or
their caregivers through an internet-based process developed by the
program. The challenges, once received, are validated by QL staff
and made available to university engineering faculty at Cal Poly
university who, upon a second validation, assign them to teams of
students. These student teams must deliver solutions to these
“Challenge” as part of the educational experience. A senior
engineering project is required for graduation and is generally a
major undertaking and involves hundreds of man hours. QL student
participants volunteer to participate with the program. If selected,
these “challenge” solution will be addressed and solved in detail by a
three to ten person engineering team over a 30 week time-frame. This
solution process occurs in three phases; a proposal phase, a
design-build phase and a test and prototype phase. At the conclusion
of the effort, the Hero will be presented with the solution the team
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