Archive for June 2016

Award won at the SB3C!

Big congratulations to Kiffer Creveling, and Boston Terry who presented their research at the Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering, & Biotransport conference at National Harbor, Maryland.  Kiffer presented his work on the adhesion between the vitreous and the retina in his first podium talk.  Boston presented his work developing a voxel-wise algorithm to better detect mild TBI for the undergraduate student competition. Boston walked away with  first place!

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Lab Welcomes Women of Hi-GEAR 2016

Hi-GEAR:  The lab was very excited to host a workshop for the high school women involved in the Hi-GEAR (Girls Engineering Abilities Realized) Camp run by the College of Engineering for the second time. The camp introduces students to engineering and computer science through hands-on learning projects. We had the women design artificial eyes to mimic the mechanical properties of real eyes. Designs were put to the test and the women were amazed at how fun Mechanical Engineering could be.              

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