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Class helping
disabled eat
"By Sandy Mohr " '
Feeding himself isn't easy for 12-year-old
David Walter. David suffers from a
disease that destroyed the muscles in his
arms and legs.
A UNL mechanical engineering class
directed by Joseph Baumgarten has de
signed a table-attached machine with a car
rying arm and sppon to help David, a stu
dent at Park School.
Hie device was designed by the fall,
1974 class and tested and refined by the
spring, 1975 class. About 31 students
worked on it, according to project chair
man Tim Wentz.
Wentz, now a graduate student in busi
ness, took the machine to the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers annual
meeting in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 15.
After judging by a panel of mechanical en
gineers, the UNL machine won a second
place prize of $60.
The prize money goes into a UNL
mechanical engineering special fund which
financed the machine's cost of about $90,
Wentz said. That money came from prize
; money won by an artificial leg project the
year before, he added.
The machine also was a part of last
April's Engineering Week display. There it
- won first place for its department and
second in the overall category.
Despite the machine's success in com
petition, David cannot use it. Because his
daily nebraskan
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A UNL mechanical engineering class designed this special table to help
David Walter, a disabled 1 2-year-old, feed himself.
energy comes in spurts, he cannot control
his muscles to move the table, Wentz said.
So a UNL industrial engineering class
now is working on installing a motor on
the machine so David can operate it by a
button. This class received a federal grant
for the project.
"The machine was originally designed
for one child and one child only," Wentz
said, but if motorized it could be used
by arthritics, stroke patients and palsy vic
tims. ,
After this adaptation is made, the
machine may be marketed, he said.
monday, uecember 8, i75
French teacher
to be awarded
'palms' insignia
An honor instituted by Napoleon will
be presented to a UNL French professor
Tuesday.
Jane Dein, associate professor of
French, will be awarded the insignia of the
Order of Academic Palms by Jean Beaulieu,
French cultural attache in Chicago for the
French Embassy. At 1:30 in the Nebraska
Union, Beaulieu will deliver a lecture on
French efforts to preserve their cultural
heritage, in addition to awarding the medal.
The Order of the Academic Palms is a
decoration to honor writers, artists and
educators, Dein said. It is given to encour
age American-French relations.
A UNL professor hasn't been awarded
the honor for 15 years.
Dein, vice chairperson of the Modern
Languages Dept., has coordinated two pro
grams in which university students study in
France: one with undergraduate students
and one with graduate students. The grad
uate student program Involves an exchange
-a French graduate student comes to UNL
to teach French and an American graduate
student goes to a French university to
, teach English.
Dein is a past president of the American
Association of Teachers of French.
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