Working with Prótesis Imbabura, a prosthetics clinic in Ecuador, Brigham Young University (BYU) engineering students designed an innovative process for making lower-cost prosthetics for those in need. In the future, rather than importing expensive products from the U.S., the clinic can use this new molding process, created as part of a BYU capstone/global engineering outreach project, to pour custom foot shells and liners on-site, so that patients can get their prosthetics in days. A video team of three went on-location to Ecuador with BYU's engineering students to document this story as it happened. An integral part of BYU's mission is "enter to learn, go forth to serve." We viewed this story as an excellent way to share a real-life example of BYU students doing this very thing.
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