This study examines student educational outcomes from working on prosthetic limb design inside and outside of the classroom. The Helping Hand Project (HHP) is a nonprofit organization that builds custom prosthetic devices for children with amputations. The HHP does so through the involvement of students working in an extracurricular club, and by partnering with the Design and Manufacturing II course, a class open to 3rd year engineering undergraduates in the UNC & NCSU Joint Department of

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... ical Engineering. In this study, student outcomes, which include technical skills, design ability, teamwork, and business skills, were surveyed before and after building prosthetic devices either in or out of the classroom. This will aid in identifying where students perceive the value in such an activity and allow comparisons between in and out of classroom settings. Survey results from students in the design class on average improve in each category, whereas students in the extracurricular club activities saw improvement only in the technical and design skills categories. In each category, the design students saw on average a greater increase in confidence.