{"id":156,"date":"2012-07-06T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/engineering-students-develop-biomedical-assistive-devices-in-solidworks"},"modified":"2012-07-06T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T20:00:00","slug":"engineering-students-develop-biomedical-assistive-devices-in-solidworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2012\/07\/engineering-students-develop-biomedical-assistive-devices-in-solidworks.html","title":{"rendered":"Engineering Students Develop Bioengineering Assistive Devices in SolidWorks"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Malcolm<\/a>
Biomedical and mechanical engineering students continue to amaze me in the products they design for rehabilitation and assistive living.  I was very fortunate that my colleague, Rene from Simulia (Abaqus) introduced me to a series of bioengineering research projects that use SolidWorks.  I asked students from Rice University (USA) and University of Waterloo (Canada)  to share with you.<\/p>\n

Rice University students,  Jennifer Desmarais, Jessica Joyce, Kurt Kienast, Lawrence Lin, Leslie Miller, Allison Post from Mechanical and Bioengineering departments, presented on their project, "MALCOLM: Improving Pediatric Cerebral Palsy Rehabilitation Through Diagnostics" at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Bioengineering Conference.  Under the direction of their advisors, Dr Z.M. Oden and Dr. M.K. O'Malley, these students are part of an organization called Rice Helping Hands, (RHH).  RHH is tasked with design and developing a wrist rehabilitation device for spastic cerebral palsy pediatric patients.<\/p>\n

The aim of their device is to strengthen the wrist extensor muscles of spastic CP patients during isometric contractions, through a visually engaging game interface.  MALCOLM, which stands for Multi-axis load cell object loading mechanism,  incorporates five subsystems: force measurement, hand restraint, arm restraint, stand and graphical interface.<\/p>\n