120 Low-Cost Prosthetic Knee

Team Members

Robert Pizzey, David Weyland, and Ruth Eischer,

Biomedical Engineering; James Hartel, Mechanical

Engineering

Advisor

Nina Mahmoudian

Sponsor

Department of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering

Mechanics

Project Overview

Our team is redesigning and evaluating a costoptimized

prosthetic knee joint created by a

previous Senior Design team. The joint must be

manufactured in India with local materials and be

affordable for the hospital and patients. We have

settled on a four-bar linkage design with a variable

friction element to provide adjustable resistance to

the user.

Done