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The ReMotion prosthetic kneeReMotion is a project created by D-Rev (Design Revolution), a non-profit organization operating in third world countries, which creates and provides prosthetic knees to amputees living under $4 a day (Krista Donaldson, 2013). One of the company's main constraints when designing the knee revolved around creating a product that performed to a standard equivalent to high-end knee replacements, but at an affordable cost and allowed for mass production. The project has been ongoing since 2009 (Krista Donaldson, 2013) and since then more than five and a half thousand amputees have been fitted with the ReMotion knee, with the third version made available to the public in mid-2014 ("A Cheap Prosthetic Knee For The Developing World , Designed based on patient feedback', n.d.) The Knee ReMotion is an incredibly important project, working in an area that wouldn't occur to many due to the stigma in third world countries where knees are distributed and surrounding disabilities, it is important to have a prosthetic limb that functions in a discrete and life-like manner to avoid discrimination. The effect the project can have on an individual's life justifies its purpose and existence is someone who understands the world as it is, but works to improve it. They solve problems on micro and macro scales and on all dimensions in between. Although they strive to solve problems in a way that does not compromise the future, this may not be the case always so, thus providing work for engineers in the future to solve the problems created. In this way engineers demonstrate their evident superior intelligence by securing jobs for the future. At the end of the day, engineers are in the… middle of the paper… a bunch of knee replacements for the developing world designed based on patient feedback. Task Force, MEW (2012, April 1). People: Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Melbourne. Retrieved May 22, 2014, from http://www.mech.unimelb.edu.au/people/staff.php?person_ID=188333· Mechanical Engineer Salary. (n.d.). EngJobs. Retrieved May 22, 2014, from http://engjobs.net.au/engineer-salary/mechanical-engineer-salary· About us. (n.d.). JaipurFoot. Retrieved May 22, 2014, from http://jaipurfoot.org/who_we_are/locations.html#.U33DNHb91H1· What is Engineering (n.d.). Australian engineers. Retrieved May 26, 2014, from https://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/professional-development/what-engineering#Mechanical· Mechanical Engineering Technology. (n.d.). Retrieved May 26, 2014, from http://www.tryengineering.org/become-an-engineer/mechanical-engineering-technology·