Though designing prosthetic and Orthotic devices for developing countries needs to be affordable and simple enough for local implimentation, it still requires high-level knowledge from verious fields such as material, dynamics, biomechanics, rehabilitation and so forth. As an academic offer, collaborating with professors and P&O, Developing World Prosthetics (DWP) is offered for MIT grad/undergrad students every year, where various kinds of low-cost prosthetic/othotic technology have been developed and disseminated through summer internship programs. This talk will cover DWP?s educational structure and contribution contribution to developing countries.

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