A team of undergraduate students in the Interdisciplinary Senior Design Capstone course in the College of Engineering have designed and fabricated a robotic, prosthetic hand for a team member’s sister, who had part of her hand amputated after an accident. “It was something that would improve her quality of life a lot,” said Talise Lindorf. “We just really wanted to help.”
I have a sister who was in an accident two years ago and she had a partial amputation of her left hand, so she lost these four fingers. She is two years younger than me, her school and got a little delayed because of the accident. So she’s finishing up her freshman year at VCU studying art. I’m in the interdisciplinary Senior Design care of Virginia Tech. It’s not the typical senior design class you’d go into. You kinda have to already be on a…
