Servant Engineering

Servant Engineering is a class at George Fox University.  The class is setup in teams of about four students who are given projects to work on to better human life.  Our group has been assigned the project of an upright system or machine for the Providence Center for Medically Fragile Children.  The children in this hospital are severely disabled.  Our team will design an apparatus to help the nurses get the children in and out of bed into wheel chairs and back.

A second project has the goal of making it possible for the children to be upright during a part of the day.  Currently they spend most of their days laying down or in wheel chairs.  With use of a hoist system the children will be able to be put into a harness, which we will design, so they can be upright for some part of the day.  The doctors and nurses believe that this will gain brain activity for the children while they act in the environment around them.

This should be an exciting project that aims to help many in the Portland area.

Please visit the George Fox University Engineering Departments website on Servant Engineering:

www.engr.georgefox.edu/ServantEngineering/