American University of Cairo

Belquis Haider ’19, who studied mechanical engineering and was a recipient of the Tomorrow's Leaders Scholarship at The American University in Cairo (AUC) designed, fabricated and programed a mechanical engineering prototype to evaluate the forces between the hand and splints worn by patients suffering from base-of-thumb osteoarthritis with 3D printable technology. As a student at AUC’s Undergraduate Research Program, Haider interned with the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom and incorporated the soft-sensing technologies developed at the University of Leeds in devising her project. Her research titled HAILO was ...