Skills Applied

Technical Skills

<aside> ✅ Python

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<aside> ✅ 3-D Printing

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<aside> ✅ Sketching

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Soft Skills

<aside> ✅ Time Management

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<aside> ✅ Public Speaking (Poster Presentation)

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Overview

For DP2, we created a hip implant that alleviates the patient’s left leg’s muscle and bone degeneration caused by a long-term polio infection. The hip implant should reduce any hip pain, while protecting surrounding tissue to improve quality of life.

Patient Profile

<aside> 🩺 Our patient has polio, contributing to severe bone degeneration in her left leg, which is 4 cm shorter than the right leg. She also has asymmetric hip joints, a cracked left femur and the left femur head is not placed in the acetabulum.

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Final Deliverables

Computing Sub-Team

A radiograph of the pelvic region (frontal view). Left hip joint appears abnormal and there is bone loss in the left femur.

Consisted of myself and two team members who created a program on python that includes the following:

• Subprogram 1 - minimum implant diameter
• Subprogram 2 - cycles/stress amplitude until failure
• Subprogram 3 - years until femoral failure risk

Modelling Sub-team

3-D print of the final prototype

In order from left to right: uni-directional cup, flexor, rotator and abductor/femoral stem

CAD of abductor & femoral stem

CAD of rotator

CAD of flexor

CAD of unidirectional cup

Poster Board

Design Process

Objectives and Constraints