As a first‑generation college student, Gomez attended Irvine Valley College, where she excelled in math and physics, and ...

Each year, thousands of people around the world lose a hand or finger, often due to accidents, war, natural disaster or illness. After this loss, accessing and affording traditional prosthetic devices ...

After this loss, accessing and affording traditional prosthetic devices can present their own challenge to these individuals, who are often in developing countries with limited medical care. A group ...

Graduate student Peyton Young works with a robotic arm controlled by electromyography (EMG) signals. Young has now developed a technique to use pressure measurements from muscles (force myography, FMG ...

The University of Dayton offers programs for students to integrate a holistic education into meaningful action. Mechanical engineering student Clare Pitstick found her vocation in prosthetics and ...

HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — After a month of designing, 3D-printing and making modifications, a team of high school engineering students in Hendersonville, Tennessee, built a fellow student at ...

Editor's Note: For the 36th year in a row, The Day is publishing a series of stories from May 18 to June 5 about graduating seniors in our 19 area high schools. This year we are profiling top students ...

When the Students in Cal State Fullerton’s new Additive Manufacturing Engineering course were presented with the real-world task to create a prosthesis that could enhance the quality of life for a ...

The pre-engineering instructors at McKinley High School receive all sorts of requests for help. The theater department needed a hand designing steps and a folding, movable stage for its production.

SCITUATE, R.I. (WPRI) — Christmas came early this year for a 9-year-old boy in Scituate. Ollie Mancini was born without the lower part of his left arm. He always wanted a prosthetic, and a group of ...