LSU Mechanical Engineering Seniors Improve Wheelchair for Teen With Cerebral Palsy

For their LSU senior capstone project, Mechanical Engineering seniors Mason Cambre of Mandeville, La.; Rudy Stark of Lake Charles, La.; and Bernard Robichaux and Easton McGinn of Lafayette, La.; spent their last two semesters working with St. Lillian Academy in Baton Rouge to make improvements to Emerson Allen’s wheelchair.
Allen has cerebral palsy, a congenital disorder caused by abnormal development of the part of the brain that controls movement, muscle tone, or posture, and affects nearly 500,000 children in the U.S. under the age of 18. In order to make life a little more comfortable for Allen, these four seniors remodeled her wheelchair to help improve her posture and muscles, which can be severely impacted by CP.