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Kenyatta Hunter, a disabled veteran, gives thumbs up to the work of students, including Arafat Abdu, right.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A unique educational program bringing Mechanical Engineering and Nursing students together for a project to aid disabled veterans has been quietly meeting its goal of making lives better. <\/p>\n

This year, it got the media attention it deserves.<\/p>\n

Students earning a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering spend their entire senior year working on a project designed and manufactured to help one person with a disability. This capstone project, called Faces on Design,  has been growing and developing each year since it started in 2007. <\/p>\n

On Friday, the students met with their clients at the John D. Dingell VA Medical Center and delivered the projects they had designed for the vets. The projects included a cane that helped lift legs, a glove that can sense muscle commands, a device that stretches legs without the aid of a physical therapist and a programmable cushion that can help eliminate bedsores. <\/p>\n

To see lots of coverage of this event, start with our story here<\/a>, then click on the links to see what the Detroit News and two local TV stations said about this mission-centric project.<\/p>\n

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Nursing student Austin Carlisle, left, with Engineering students met with the clients April 21.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A unique educational program bringing Mechanical Engineering and Nursing students together for a project to aid disabled veterans has been quietly meeting its goal of making lives better.  This year, it got the media attention it deserves. Students earning a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering spend their entire senior year working on a …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[9,17,16],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2017\/04\/veteran.jpg?fit=1296%2C864&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Kcng-8q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":525,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions\/525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}