Senior biomedical engineering student Ayda Rajab was recently profiled by Quality of Life + (QL+) for her work with a team to create golfing assists for people with hand transplants.
QL+ is a nonprofit that pairs veterans, active-duty military personnel, first responders, law enforcement officers, and intelligence officers who have life-altering injuries with college students to help them overcome specific challenges. Rajab’s work was highlighted in an article on the organization’s website.
Rajab and her team were tasked to design an assistive device to help Army veteran Eric Lund play golf, even without the functionality of his arms. The device was required to be comfortable, have a custom fit, be detachable, and reduce wobble. The team’s goal was to address the issue of having a lack of control for handling a golf club for patients who do not have functionality in their arms and/or hands. To address that need, the team created a novel prototype that allows golfers to gain more control while playing, without feeling like they are using a device.
Rajab is working on the project with two other students. It is her senior design project.
The challenge, Rajab said, “allowed me to think creatively and innovatively. The most rewarding part of this experience is the fact that the device we are working on is going to someone directly.” Read more at QL+.