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Adaptive Meal Time Solutions

Company: Victoria's Victory Foundation

Major(s):
Primary: ME
Secondary: IE
Optional: BME

Non-Disclosure Agreement: NO

Intellectual Property: NO

A real life struggle a person with limited arm and hand mobility is the ability to cut their own food. Imagine being an adult that has to depend on your caregiver to cut all of your meals. A plate that has a spike that could hold the food stationary on the plate would allow for someone to use a knife and cut their own food. The plate would need to be stabilized as well as have the ability to stabilize the food on the plate. This would allow for independence and dignity during daily meals.

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Our mission is to help bring the real-world into the classroom by providing engineering students with practical hands-on experience through industry-sponsored and client-based capstone design projects. Since its inception, the Learning Factory has completed more than 1,800 projects for more than 500 different sponsors, and nearly 9,000 engineering students at Penn State University Park participated in such a project.