New Funding Supports Research Aimed At Enabling Prostheses For Children With Lower Extremity Amputation

Quentin Sanders, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering; Assistant Professor, Bioengineering, College of Engineering and Computing (CEC), received backing for: "Fused Filament Fabrication of Customized Continuous Fiber Physical Activity Enabling Prostheses for Children pinch Lower Extremity Amputation."

The semipermanent extremity of nan activity is to make high-performance prosthetic limbs much affordable, accessible, and tailored to nan needs of progressive children. To make advancement towards this extremity Dr. Sanders and his collaborators person 3 objectives for this research.

First, they purpose to place qualitative and quantitative factors influencing a child's desire to participate successful beingness activity and foretell nan corresponding demands connected their prostheses.

Second, they purpose to quantify nan power of kid anthropometry and activity type connected mechanical properties of moving circumstantial prostheses.

Third, they purpose to comparison nan fixed and move behaviour of continuous fibre 3D printed and accepted laminate beingness activity enabling prostheses during different load conditions.

Sanders received $502,222 from nan National Science Foundation for this research. Funding began successful Sept. 2025 and will extremity successful precocious Aug. 2028.