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Engineering student Edward Shangin observes Maci Winebarger at an art event. He looks on as Maci, with her long hair pinned back in barrettes, paints a picture of a pink flower.
Clark Dehart
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Virginia Tech
People who have disabilities often don’t get to tell engineers what they wish they could change about their wheelchairs, or other adaptive technologies.A group of engineering and neuroscience students at Virginia Tech have spent the past semester doing something not many in their field do, learning from people with brain injuries.
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