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Ralf David Hotchkiss
Rehabilitation Engineer | Class of 1989
Title
Rehabilitation Engineer
Location
San Francisco, California
Age
42 at time of award
Area of Focus
Invention and Adaptive Technology, Persons with Disabilities
Published August 1, 1989
ABOUT RALF'S WORK
Ralf Hotchkiss is a rehabilitation engineer and a proponent of independent living for disabled people.
Hotchkiss designs wheelchairs and has set up a growing network of factories in twenty-five developing countries, where people with disabilities build state-of-the-art wheelchairs using inexpensive, local materials. His inventions include the Appropriate Technology International-Hotchkiss wheelchair, the “Torbellino Whirlwind.” He is the author of Independence Through Mobility (1985), a work that explains how to make wheelchairs simply and economically. He is currently experimenting with designs for all-terrain, off-road vehicles that will still function as effective wheelchairs in the kitchen, the work site, and the outhouse. His personal goal is to cross Africa by back roads with a vehicle that can be rebuilt by any blacksmith.
BIOGRAPHY
Hotchkiss co-founded the Rehabilitation Engineering Technology Program (1987) and the Wheeled Mobility Center (1989) at San Francisco State University, where he is the Distinguished Research Scientist in the Department of Engineering and the Technical Director of Whirlwind Wheelchair International. He also founded the Center for Concerned Engineering (1971) with Ralph Nader.
Hotchkiss received a B.A. (1969) from Oberlin College.
Last updated January 1, 2005.
拉尔夫-戴维-霍奇基斯
康复工程师 | 1989级
职称
康复工程师
工作地点
旧金山,加利福尼亚
年龄
获奖时为42岁
关注领域
发明和适应性技术, 残障人士
发表于1989年8月1日
关于拉尔夫的工作
拉尔夫-霍奇基斯是一名康复工程师,是残疾人独立生活的倡导者。
霍奇基斯设计轮椅,并在25个发展中国家建立了一个不断增长的工厂网络,残疾人在那里使用廉价的当地材料制造最先进的轮椅。 他的发明包括适当技术国际-霍奇基斯的轮椅,"托贝里诺旋风"。 他是《通过移动性实现独立》(1985年)的作者,这部作品解释了如何简单而经济地制造轮椅。 他目前正在尝试设计全地形越野车,这些车辆在厨房、工作场所和外屋仍可作为有效的轮椅使用。 他的个人目标是用一辆任何铁匠都能改造的车辆从后路穿越非洲。
个人简历
霍奇基斯在旧金山州立大学共同创立了康复工程技术项目(1987年)和轮式移动中心(1989年),他是工程系的杰出研究科学家和国际旋风轮椅的技术总监。 他还与拉尔夫-纳德一起创立了关注工程中心(1971年)。
霍奇基斯获得了欧柏林学院的文学学士学位(1969年)。
最后更新于2005年1月1日。 |
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