Center for Rehabilitation Engineering & Science Technology (CREST)

• A balanced academic exposure to the medical, social and psychological aspects of disability and its remediation ("rehabilitation")
• Current knowledge about the pathophysiology of disability and new research tools to investigate it ("rehabilitation science");
• Analytical processes to model the impairment and its functional limitations,
• The design and development of acceptable augmentation or replacement devices, strategies or concepts ("rehabilitation engineering");
• Real-world design, provisioning, marketing of and training in the use, psychology and sociology of such devices ("rehabilitation technology").

The Center for Rehabilitation Engineering, Science, Technology was established as a new initiative in Clarkson University in the field of bioengineering and rehabilitation engineering. CREST is one of the five distinct, yet related, priority research and programmatic expansions funded by a $30 million grant — the largest gift in the history of Clarkson University- from the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation.