Junior Design

Prosthetic Ankle Adapter

In our junior design course, we were put into teams and tasked with creating a way to address the inability to allow prosthetic ankle flexion in the sagittal plane and lock the ankle joint at 90 degrees in K2 or K3 lower limb amputees in order to allow for insertion into and removal from high-top shoes to meet footwear needs and preferences for safe ambulation. I was partnered with an amazing team of students which later became some of my closest friends. On this project, I was the project manager and responsible for keeping the project Gantt chart, organizing documents and checking that all requirements were included, and running team meetings. As this was the first time I had to use my engineering education, I was very nervous going into this project. However, my team worked really well together and ended up being really successful. This project gave me confidence in myself as an engineer going into my final year and senior design. It also reinforced the idea that it is okay to ask for help when it's needed because we came across many challenges throughout the semester and found the best course of action was always to ask one another or professors for help. The ankle adapter that we developed is to the left and our final report is attached below.