This course provides an overview of the role of an operations manager in facility and venue management. Sustainable facility management includes maintenance, cleaning/housekeeping, engineering, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC), utility usage management, budgets, security, crisis management/emergency management, and production. This course covers the general systems and processes related to the planning, programming, design, construction, and occupancy of facilities, including long-range, strategic and tactical planning, the relationship between facility planning and business planning, organization of sites, and buildings.

Provides occupational therapy students an opportunity to experience occupational therapy in a clinical setting. Students attend a seminar prior to beginning their placement. The Level I placement is scheduled between the fall and spring semesters of the senior year. During fieldwork, students observe an occupational therapist as well as participate in the planning and implementing of the occupational therapy assessment or intervention process for a client.

Students are introduced to foundation knowledge, values and philosophy of occupational therapy practice. Students learn skills to apply professional behaviors and skills required to be ethical practitioners. They learn about various practice settings and systems within which occupational therapists practice to prepare them to begin to make decisions regarding their fieldwork site selections. They are introduced to models of OT practice.

This course provides an overview of assistive technology (AT) service delivery models and begins to teach students how to design and fabricate AT solutions. Students will develop skills in fabrication tool use inclusive of 3-D printing. Interactive learning will occur throughout the semester and students will be provided a materials and tools kit to ensure access and skill development. Students will demonstrate skill acquisition for AT design, fabrication and consumer training through video and photo submission and within interprofessional discussions with peers.