OPAD is a voluntary group at University of Nottingham - members collaborate in creating assistive and rehabilitation devices for community and healthcare partners where commercial solutions do not exist. Students and staff with complementary skills work in multidisciplinary teams, alongside end-user clients and representatives to ensure projects follow efficient design-development processes that address end-user needs and meet regulatory requirements. In contrast to standard group projects, most OPAD projects target hand-over of the devices to the community or Healthcare partner, rather than stopping at research prototypes.
As part of OPAD you can use the skills you learn in your course to help people and because you will work in groups with students on other courses, you can pick up new skills from them too. Although based in Engineering, OPAD is open to all UoN students and staff; current members include representatives from Engineering, Medicine and Health Sciences, Computer Science, Business School, Physics and Chemistry.
Since the academic year 2019/20, OPAD is also a student society. The student committee will be working closely with the staff committee to grow OPAD in the coming years.
We are immensely proud to share some of the exciting projects our groups have worked on this year with you.
Visit the OPAD end of year showcase 2021/22