Jiawei Yan successfully defended his Master’s thesis in Mechanical Engineering in front of his graduate committee as well as family and friends via zoom. His thesis, The Effect of Environmental and Anatomical Variabilities on Skull Fracture in Infants, takes the first step in identifying morphological and mechanical differences in infant skull fracture patterns. Congratulations on all your hard work! Best of luck Jiawei!
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Congratulations to Kendall McMillian for your new position at ICU Medical. Best of luck in your future endeavors Kendall!
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The Coats lab received a $557K award from the Department of Justice for Phase 1 of their project to investigate the effect of skull thickness variability on skull fracture patterns in infant. This project, in collaboration with Dr. Ashley Spear from the Multiscale Mechanics and Materials Lab, will characterize skull thickness variability across the parietal, occipital, and frontal bones in a large dataset of infants. Thickness distributions will be incorporated into our existing computational framework to predict skull fracture patterns in infants. To prepare for more widespread use of the tools, Dr. Spear will will begin developing a machine learning […]
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Name: Megan Sterrett Hometown: Arvada, Colorado Previous Degrees, Institutions: BS (in progress), University of Utah, Bioengineering Research Interests/Project: Fracture Mechanics of the Pediatric Skull, Modeling Brain Strain of Subconcussive Impacts Interests outside of Research: Traveling, Playing Piano, Singing, Hiking, Baking, DIY Projects Tell us something about yourself that otherwise we wouldn’t know or guess: I listen to any genre of music under the sun! What can’t you live without: My Spotify! Favorite place to eat in SLC or surrounding area: Stoneground Kitchen Favorite activity in SLC or surrounding area: Hammocking in the Canyons I’ve always wanted to: Go cliff diving in Spain or Portugal Favorite Quote: “A Day Without Laughter […]
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Dr. Brittany Coats, Nik Benko, Kiffer Creveling, Mitch Metcalf, Joseph Phillips, and Yousef Alsanea attended the 2019 SB3C conference in Seven Springs, Pennsylvania to present research from our lab to other bioengineers around the world. Nik gave a podium presentation on his work measuring the mechanical properties of the brain-skull interface. Mitch also gave a podium presentation on his high-rate fracture characterization of pediatric bone. Joseph presented a poster on the enzymatic characterization of the vitreoretinal interface. Kiffer also gave a poster presentation on the characterization of collagen fibrils at the vitreoretinal interface. Yousef attended his first SB3C conference. Fun was had by all and […]
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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 third 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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Congratulations to Nik Benko for successfully completing his dissertation proposal. Nik’s proposal focused on characterizing the pia arachnoid complex (PAC) of the human brain, computational techniques to further improve existing finite element models of the brain-skull interface, and evaluate a novel football smart helmet. Nik performed admirably and is one step closer to graduation.
Read more →Jami Soffioti, her family, and Jourdan Colter stop by to say hi to Dr. Coats and lab members early in October. We were so glad to see them and are happy to see everyone doing so well in the engineering field. Continue the great work you two!
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Matt Byrne successfully defended his Master’s thesis in Mechanical Engineering in front of his graduate committee as well as family and friends. His thesis, Morphology and Mechanics of Retinal Vasculature in Abusive Head Trauma, takes the first step in identifying morphological and mechanical differences in preterm and adult retinal vasculature. Congratulations on all your hard work! Best of luck Matt!
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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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