A few Sample Projects (not limited to these projects, can propose your own)
IF YOU ARE NOT INTERESTED IN EITHER OF THE PROJECTS, DON'T WORRY, YOU CAN PROPOSE YOUR OWN!!
Business:
- Funding research
- Creating a budget & bookkeeper
- Business plan research
- Strategic Planning team: Consulting projects
Communications:
- Market Research: interviewing amputees and professionals, gathering data on commercial viability, etc
- Social Media Post Creation: Graphic Design
- Email Newsletter Creation: Writing it, adding images, template
- Inclusion & Diversity: Researching organizations at OSU to partner with
- Website Management
- Research Resources for amputees (list of makerspaces, hospitals, etc)
Education
- Middle School after school group to teach students about engineering, CAD, and 3D Printing & 3D Printed Prosthetics
- High school pre-engineering program to teach students about 3D Printing & 3D Printed prosthetics
- Amputee Education project to connect amputees to resources in their community by working with local support groups, making flyers or pamphlets, etc with the goal of teaching amputees about the prosthetics industry as a whole
Production:
(Must understand problem first through market research, Communications, or Education projects before joining)
- Construct an editable 3D solidworks model of the UnLimbited arm (Novice in Solidworks)
- Sustainability research in materials of building the 3D Printed prosthetic arm
- Sustainability: building recycling program to recycle waste plastic into usable 3D printing filament
- Biomechanics: analyzing 3D printed prosthetic & replacing 3D printed parts with more durable material