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"Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.”
-- Harold Fabing and Ray Marr, Fischerisms (1937).
The vision for our Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center (RERC) is to improve the quality of life for persons who use prostheses and orthoses through creative applications of science and engineering to prosthetics and orthotics (P&O). We want to uncover new knowledge and understanding in P&O and bring more quantification to the field, which we believe will enable us to develop new concepts and devices to improve the quality, cost-effectiveness, and delivery of P&O fittings. During the next five years of this NIDRR grant cycle, NURERC will conduct seven research projects, five development projects, and multiple educational projects that will expand the understanding of the biomechanics of human movement, develop improved devices for people with amputations, and train others in these areas of knowledge.
"You never know what you know until you put it into words. You never know what you know with precision until you write it down, and you never know with any certainty until you put it into numbers."
-- Capt. Bob Mudge, Delta Airlines Through engineering and scientific research, we want to help persons with disability obtain needed limb replacements (prostheses) or assistive systems (orthoses) that are highly functional, comfortable and cost-effective. Our vision for the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center in Prosthetics and Orthotics (RERC in P&O) is to improve the quality of life for persons who use prostheses and orthoses through creative applications of science and engineering to the P&O field. We want to uncover new knowledge and understanding in P&O and to bring more quantification to the field, which we believe will enable us to develop new concepts and devices to improve the quality, cost-effectiveness, and delivery of P&O fittings. We propose ten research projects, of which three are pilot studies, and six development projects. | | |
