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Giving a Boy a Leg Up in Life

June 18, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Every engineering student at Purdue spends part or all of their final year working on a real-world project to fulfill their Senior Design requirement.  At the end of the semester, each engineering department holds a competition to determine which idea is the ‘best in show.’  In 2009, the winner of Mechanical Engineering Senior Design’s highest honor, the Thomas J. and Sandra H. Malott Innovation Award, was a group called ‘Leg Up Design.’

Consisting of five students, the group designed and built a customized prosthetic leg for a Martinsville boy born with Proximal Femoral Focal Deficiency (PFFD) with the help of Kevin Hagemeier from Action Brace and Prosthetic.  The novelty of this project comes from the fact that PFFD leaves a sufferer with one leg which is far shorter than the other, making normal walking impossible.  The boy benefiting from this project had undergone standard procedures up until 2009, including having the foot on the deficient leg removed and being fitted with an elongated lower leg prosthetic, allowing him to stand normally and to walk, albeit with an odd gait due to uneven knee heights.  While this solution did allow him to function far better than any previous alternative, it leaves much to be desired because it does not allow for fully normal movement.

Leg Up’s team used a four-bar linkage to translate the motion of the deficient knee to a prosthetic knee at the anatomically appropriate location, allowing a normal gait, improving his speed and agility in the sports he plays, and making it possible for him to ride a bicycle for the first time. The team chronicled its progress with the project at https://globalhub.org/groups/2009mesd/overview.

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May 28, 2010 – Carb Day PLM & Lean Product Development Seminar

May 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Carb Day PLM & Lean Product Development Seminar

Friday, May 28, 2010
8:00 – 3:30 PM
At the Brickyard Crossing Resort

Registration and Coffee 7:30 a.m.
Introduction 8:00 a.m.
PLM & Lean Product Development Seminar 8:15 a.m.
Handout Box Lunches & Shirts 10:00 a.m.
Trackside Tower Terrace Pit Row 10:15 a.m.
Indianapolis 500 Final Practice 11 a.m. – Noon
Firestone Freedom 100 12:30 p.m.
Indianapolis 500 Pit Stop Challenge 1:30-3 p.m.
Vintage Car Laps 3:20 p.m.
Miller Lite Carb Day Concert (ZZ Top) on Miller Lite Stage 3:30 p.m.

Click here to register.

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April 21, 2010 – Rose-Hulman Spring Career Fair

March 31, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Greetings from Rose-Hulman Career Services!

If you have not already registered to reserve your space at our 2010 Spring Career Fair, there is still time! Our priority registration deadline is Monday, April 12th. If you have already registered, we look forward to seeing you soon!

The event is scheduled for Wednesday, April 21, 2010 and is FREE to attend. This Fair will provide you with a final opportunity to meet with and interview some of the nation’s top students in science, engineering and math. We provide lunch, and snacks/drinks throughout the day, and think this would be a great opportunity for you to visit campus and get connected with excellent talent for your hiring needs.

The Fair runs from 11:00am to 4:00pm and will give you a chance to meet with both graduating seniors and undergraduate students. Students of all years and all disciplines will be present to discuss internship and co-op opportunities, and plenty of seniors will also be in attendance looking for full-time employment. In previous years, 500-600 students have attended this event, and we expect interest to be great this year!

If you would like to set up schedules to interview candidates the day after the fair or at a later time, contact Dawn Miller at 812-877-8212 or dawn.miller@rose-hulman.edu.

Reserve your space for the Spring Fair.

If you have any questions please contact me at (812) 877-8961 or cmouck@rose-hulman.edu.

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April 20-21, 2010 – Human Factors Engineering & Med Device Workshop

March 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Human Factors Engineering & Med Device Workshop

Red Forest Consulting provides human factors engineering (HFE) expertise to health care businesses who want to integrate HFE into their patient safety, product development, or product evaluation processes.

Human Factors Engineering is a discipline that blends engineering design with human psychology, kinesiology, and biomechanics. The goal is to apply knowledge of human cognition and physical limitations to the design of the systems, such as tools, tasks, devices, software, work areas, etc. Designing systems that are congruent with our cognitive and physical capabilities can help achieve optimal system performance. In the healthcare world, this means keeping patients safer and reducing cognitive or physical workload of clinicians.

Learn more about this worhshop.

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Interview with Tom Gardner of The RND Group

March 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Interview with Tom Gardner of The RND Group

Tom Gardner

Tom Gardner

CQ: Tell me about RND Group.

The RND Group is a 13 year old business that provides full life cycle software engineering services specializing in medical device product development for FDA regulated products. We work with companies by partnering with their product development organizations in providing project management, requirements management, software engineering, and product testing services as needed to complement our clients’ existing engineering departments.

CQ: Who are your clients?

Our clients are leading providers for sample and assay technologies, and provide complete solutions for sample collection, nucleic acid purification, pathogen detection, and genetic testing. The broad range of solutions enables manual or automated sample processing in combination with downstream assays. Our clients develop instruments to help laboratories improve the cost, speed and efficiency of the diagnostics testing process. Our client’s instruments help labs deliver fast, accurate results to physicians and help improve patient care.

CQ: What do your employees like most about working at RND?

  • We love that we are working with clients who are developing solutions that truly make a difference in people’s lives.
  • We love working with the latest and greatest technologies
  • We love working at a company that truly practices its “Core Values”
    • Respect for the individual and the importance of a balanced life
    • Promote and foster a healthy environment fiscally, professionally and personally
    • Promote and foster professional respect and growth for individuals and teams
    • Commitment to the highest standards of integrity and ethics
    • Responsibility for service and philanthropy in our community

CQ: What is the biggest obstacle your company faces?

  • How do we maintain our quality growth and not sacrifice our “Three words below”?
  • That we are able to Attract, Integrate, and motivate new employees for our quality growth?
  • How do we clone our existing domain knowledge with our new hires?

CQ: Provide three words that describe your company.

Focused, Professional, Experienced

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CQ Connects Raven Engineering With An Opportunity

November 13, 2009 By Leave a Comment

At Creo Quality, we pride ourselves on connecting throughout the community – connections between CQ and others and also being able to connect third parties in hopes of creating successful relationships for others and their businesses. Read what Stan Garus, owner of Raven Engineering had to say about how we made a connection for him:

“I met Jon of Creo Quality on Twitter, and shortly after he invited me to a networking meeting. We met again to discuss an opportunity of him recommending me to his contacts and me recommending him to mine. What surprised me about Jon was how quickly he grabbed the essence of my experience and my expertise. He conveyed his observations to the owner of Medical Polymers (based in Spencer, IN), that when she interviewed me for a contract job it was all about conversation and chemistry. Before she met me she knew me from my website and from Jon’s suggestion about how I could help. She just needed to find out if there was a connection. She trusted implicitly Jon’s judgment and she offered me a long-term engineering job. Now, two months later, not only is the owner happy with her choice, but I am very happy with opportunity to quote new products, build prototypes and build leak testing equipment. This couldn’t have happened without Jon’s recommendation.” (August 24, 2009)

Making connections is important to us. It’s not about how you can help our bottomline but how we can help your bottomline through making connections and having genuine concern for your business’ outcome.

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