UW-CREATe

Center for Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology

Vision and Mission

UW-CREATe faculty, staff, and students will work in interdisciplinary teams on problems related to rehabilitation engineering and assistive technology. The objectives of this center will be:

• Development of fundamental and applied engineering knowledge in biomechanics, locomotion, power management, user-centered design, and sensory aids, directed toward rehabilitation and assistive devices for persons who are disabled
  
• Graduate student education and research
• Undergraduate education, research and service in biomechanical systems design
• Service for people with disabilities

  • For example, wheelchair alteration (design and implementation) for individuals needing assistance
  • Prosthetic device alteration
  • Design and development of devices for rehabilitation
  • Design and development of assistive technologies that allow those with disabilities to achieve greater independence.

In addition to these specific objectives, several goals are seen as being crucial to the mission of the center. First, the center will strive to serve as a valuable immediate asset providing service to the people of the State of Wisconsin through a new type of student-based organization. The second goal for the center is to play a prominent regional, national, and international role in undergraduate/graduate education and research in the area of Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology. The center will strive to be a community inclusive of all and an organization that provides opportunities, as well as resources, for students, academic staff and faculty.