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Special Topics at Edgerton Center:Developing World Prosthetics

EC.722 · Edgerton Center · Undergraduate · Spring 2010

Ken Endo, Robert Emerson

MIT · Tier 1

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 wal…

International DevelopmentPublic HealthMechanical EngineeringBiomedical TechnologiesEngineeringSocial Sciences

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Ken Endo, Robert Emerson. EC.722 Special Topics at Edgerton Center:Developing World Prosthetics. Spring 2010. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

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