Special topics at edgerton center:developing world prosthetics
Bachelor's degree
In Maynard (USA)
Description
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Bachelor's degree
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Maynard (USA)
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Different dates available
D-Lab World Prosthetics is a collaboration between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Jaipur Foot Organization to improve the design, manufacture, and distribution of rehabilitation devices in the developing world. The course welcomes individuals interested in physical rehabilitation to work on multidisciplinary teams of students with bioengineering, mechanical engineering, material science, and medical or pre-medical backgrounds. Students will learn about the basics of human walking, different types of gait disabilities, as well as the technologies that seek to address those disabilities. Patient perspectives and current research areas are presented. Lecture topics focus on lower-limb disabilities, including polio and above-knee and below-knee amputation, and will cover both developed and developing world techniques for overcoming these disabilities. Students form teams to design and prototype low-cost orthotic and prosthetic devices, and present their work at the end of the course.
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- Medical training
- Medical
- Design
- Rehabilitation
Course programme
Lectures: 1 session / week, 2 hours / session
Teams meet informally outside of lecture sessions for an average of seven hours per week.
In the first half of the course, students learn through lectures the difficulties facing developing countries, available prosthetic technologies in these countries, advanced prosthetics concepts, and review previous D-Lab World Prosthetics student projects. In the second half of the course, students form teams of three to five students to design and prototype orthotic and prosthetic devices. Projects include a low-cost prosthetic knee, a pediatric extendable prosthetic leg, a cosmetic shell for prosthetic feet, and a vacuum-casting system. At the end of the course, teams present their outcomes in final written and presented reports.
There is no textbook for this course. All required and optional readings are listed on the Lectures and Readings page.
There are seven problem sets for this course to be completed by each student. Student teams also complete short (<20 minute) mid-term and final presentations to the class, and submit a two-page (minimum) written report to be shared with Jaipur Foot.
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Special topics at edgerton center:developing world prosthetics