BEAUFORT COUNTY, N.C. (WITN) - Engineering students at one Eastern Carolina community college are making big waves after developing a new tool for prosthetic users with limited hand strength.

Beaufort County Community College says Mechanical Engineering Technology students have completed an impressive fall semester project: to design and produce a tool for prosthetic users to tighten a common lower limb socket.

The MET students worked under the guidance of the engineering instructor Matt Holliday and prosthetist Shane Coltrain of Orthotics and Prosthetics East.

According to a news release, this tool designed by the students will allow those with arthritis or limited hand strength to tighten this socket system that was difficult for them otherwise.

MET student Landon Davenport’s design

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