VOLUNTEERS FOR MEDICAL

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VOLUNTEERS FOR MEDICAL ENGINEERING (VME)
Improving the Independence of Individuals with
Disabilities in Maryland through Creative
Engineering
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Who we are?
VME is a non-profit 501(C)(3) organization
located in the Workforce Technology Center on
Argonne Drive in Baltimore, Maryland
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VMEs Mission To improve the independence and
quality of life for individuals with
disabilities through innovative efforts of
volunteers with expertise in medicine,
engineering and technology, resulting in unique
solutions to everyday challenges faced by people
with disabilities
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What we do?

• Design and build unique assistive devices
• Loan computers
• Provide information and referral
• Perform web searches for commercial
• solutions

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VME Clients

• Individuals of all ages, birth to elderly,
• with any type of disability
• Disabled students from local area schools
• Organizations and agencies serving
• individuals with disabilities

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VME Volunteers

• Engineers, physicians, nurses, physical and
• occupational therapists from local industries
• Retired engineers and medical professionals
• College high school students
• Ordinary citizens with the desire to help
• others

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The VME Process Client request received Client
Service Team (CST) evaluation Project Review
and Acceptance Committee (PRAC)
evaluation Device designed and made by
volunteers Device delivered to client
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VME HISTORY

• VME was founded by John Staehlin, an engineer at
  Westinghouse in 1982. John founded VME in an
  effort to
• help disabled co-workers through innovative
  engineering.

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Fees

• Individual project 25 each
• Group project 50 each
• Annual volunteer fee 10
• Material allowance 200 per project

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PARTNERS/ASSOCIATES
CORPORATE Northrop Grumman Lockheed Martin The
Edgewood Chemical Biological Command (US
ARMY) ACADEMIC Johns Hopkins School of
Engineering University of Maryland at Baltimore
County Community College of Baltimore
County Maryland Public School Systems Eastern
Technical High School Maryland Department of
Rehabilitation Services (DORS)
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• SPECIAL PARTNERSHIP
• TWO PARTNERSHIPS WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF
• DELAWARE AgrAbility PROGRAM
• TRACTOR MOUNTING SYSTEM DESIGNED AND BUILT BY
  JOHNS HOPKINS SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING SENIORS FOR
  DISABLED PARK VOLUNTEERS

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SPECIAL PARTNERSHIP

• HIVE MAINTENANCE SYSTEM BEING DESIGNED AND
• BUILT FOR DISABLED BEE KEEPER IN SOUTHERN
• MARYLAND IN CONJUCTION WITH RESOURCES FOR
• INDEPENDENCE OF WESTERN MARYLAND

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HELPING EXAMPLE A carpenter lost both hands in
an industrial accident. VME volunteers designed
a way for his power tools to connect to his
prosthetic arms and Johns Hopkins Students
designed a box to hold the tools so that he could
attach and detach the tools by himself.
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Helping Example Crib side modified from drop
down to swing open like a gate and the legs of
the crib were extended so the mothers
wheelchair can fit under the crib to facilitate
transferring the baby.
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Helping Example Motorized backpack to allow
student with CP to access her school supplies
without a caregiver.
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Volunteers for Medical Engineering, Inc.
CONTACT US Bob Coen PHONE [phone] EMAIL
bob_at_vmesolutions.org www.vmesolutions.org VME
MAIN OFFICE 410.243.7495