Cycling Leg for Francis Foo

Our team was given the opportunity to design and build a custom cycling prosthetic leg for our challenger, Francis Foo. Mr. Foo is a transtibial amputee and is an active road cyclist. Up until this point, he has been frustrated with the discomfort and lack of power that comes from using his walking prosthetic for cycling. He’s looking for our team to create a better-fitting and tighter socket, a cycling clip-in foot, and a more rigid ankle optimized for road cycling. Our project is in the very early stages of design at this point. So far we have met with our challenger and plan to have him visit the lab for a preliminary socket fitting early in the winter quarter. We are learning to use the Autodesk software, Fusion 360, for designing our new socket and cycling prosthetic. Our team plans to use both traditional life-casting and 3D residual limb scanning methods to build a custom, adjustable socket that will better fit our challenger’s  needs. Our team consists of 5 motivated undergraduates; Lauren Jensen, Matt Whitman, Erik Stafford, Veera Panova, and Tyler McDonough. This diverse group ranges from 1st to 3rd years and includes mechanical, biomedical, and manufacturing engineers as well a biochemistry major.

 

 

Team Lead, Chris Urasaki

My name is Chris Urasaki and I am the team lead for this formal design project. I’m a second year manufacturing engineer and have been dedicated to QL+ since the first meeting of my first year at Cal Poly. I found QL+ through a lab tour and have since been heavily involved in whatever projects I felt I could be most useful. My first year, I was part of a team that designed and built a plastic thermoforming machine for the club. This year I’m determined to bring my best and the best of my team to create something useful for our challenger.