November 17, 2006

Texas Students Engineer Hope for Amputees

By KATHERINE MANGAN

David Dittenber frowns in concentration as he tightens a bolt to a prosthetic leg he and his classmates have helped craft in their engineering laboratory here at LeTourneau University. The tan rubber foot and the aluminum bar that serves as the leg are mounted on a steel contraption that will bend it and flex it continuously for 33 days and 33 nights, replicating the wear and tear that an amputee in Bangladesh or Kenya might inflict on it trudging miles every day over muddy or rutted

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