Book Chapters

• Ledoux, E.D. (2024). “From Preschool Dropout to College Professor: An Unlikely but Positive Path,” book chapter submitted to Educator Reflections: The Power of Our Stories, MT Open Press, under review.

Journal Articles

• Ledoux, E. D., N. S. Kumar, and E. J. Barth. (ready for submission, waiting for PI to sign off), “Design, Modeling and Preliminary Evaluation of a Simple Wrist-Hand Stretching Orthosis for Neurologically Impaired Patients,” will be submitted to Wearable Technologies upon PI approval.
• Ledoux, E. D. and E. J. Barth. (Submitted March 2024), “Design, Modeling and Preliminary Evaluation of a 3D-Printed Wrist-Hand Grasping Orthosis for Stroke Survivors,” submitted to Wearable Technologies, under review.
• Ledoux, E. D. (2018). “Inertial Sensing for Gait Event Detection and Transfemoral Prosthesis Control Strategy,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering.
• Lawson, B. E., Ledoux, E. D., & Goldfarb, M. (2017). “A robotic lower limb prosthesis for efficient bicycling,” IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 33(2), 432-445.
• Ledoux, E. D., & Goldfarb, M. (2017). “Control and evaluation of a powered transfemoral prosthesis for stair ascent,” IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 25(7), 917-24.

Conference Papers

• Lawson, B. E., Shultz, A., Ledoux, E., & Goldfarb, M. (2014, August). Estimation of crank angle for cycling with a powered prosthesis. In Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE (pp. 6207-6210).
• Ledoux, E. D., Lawson, B. E., Shultz, A. H., Bartlett, H. L., & Goldfarb, M. (2015, August). Metabolics of stair ascent with a powered transfemoral prosthesis. In Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2015 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE (pp. 5307-5310).

Presentations

• “OrthoHands: Soft Robotic Hand Orthoses for Stroke Recovery,” Biomedical Engineering and Instrumentation Conference, Boston, MA (2023).
• “Inertial Sensing for Transfemoral Amputee Gait Detection.” Biomedical Engineering and Instrumentation Summit, virtual, (2021).
• “Metabolics of Stair Ascent with a Powered Transfemoral Prosthesis.” Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, Milan, Italy, (2015).

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• Undergraduate Honors Thesis Advisor for Jennifer Wade, RC You Later: Development of a Remote-Controlled Hovercraft with First-Person View Capabilities (2023-2024)
  
  
• Mentored First Place Team at the 2024 National Robotics Challenge Manufacturing Workcell Competition, Post-Secondary category.  The team placed first in their category, winning both the Gold Award and the Honda Innovation Award (2024)
  
  
• Mentored 60 teams of capstone students in developing and documenting prototypes for automation and robotic applications (2018-2024).  Several of these projects have been spotlighted by MTSU’s Out of the Blue media group:
  • 2024: “Exploring the Depths with Student-Built Submersible Vehicles” and “Mechatronic Innovations That Are Transforming Industries”
  • 2023: “MTSU Mech-Tech shows off seniors’ creative talents”
  • 2022: “From 3D printing to ‘Mr. CatDog’, MTSU Mech-Tech Expo 2022 features robotics-driven projects”
  • 2021: “MTSU graduating seniors’ projects seize spotlight at Mech-Tech expo”
  • 2020: “True Blue Makers: Mechatronics seniors demonstrate capstone projects”
  • 2019: “MTSU engineering technology students showcase ingenuity, gadgets at Mech-Tech expo”

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