Engineering students use skills to help elderly

A computer table that raises and lowers at the push of a button seems just neat to most of us, but for someone living in a nursing home, it's almost a necessity if they want to get online.

For about the past 18 years, seniors in Manhattan College's mechanical engineering program have been visiting the Elant at Brandywine Nursing Home, finding problems and then inventing solutions like the computer table. Read more