Engineering to enhance human mobility, play, and exploration
Gaurav will join the Emerging Leaders in Science & Society (ELISS) with a class of graduate and professional students from a wide range of disciplines from five partner campuses: Purdue, UW-Seattle, Duke, UNC-Chapel Hill, and UC-Irvine. ELISS prepares and empowers their fellows to take a collaborative, cross-disciplinary approach to solving real-world problems. Congratulations!
Gaurav helped name the “Engage and Enable” blog for the Center For Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE). Follow this link to read the blog post by Mary Guiden and learn about how our lab is involved with the incredible CSNE community.
Our PhD student, Ben Shuman, has been selected as a Graduate Fellow for the UW Institute for Neuroengineering. The UWIN Fellowship provides two years of support and is a highly prestigious and selective competition. Congratulations, Ben!
Ben’s research uses clinically measured muscle activations (electromyographic data) and the framework of muscle synergies to determine patient specific measures of motor control. His work seeks to examine whether muscle synergies are predictive of or related to clinical treatment outcomes such as improved walking function in patients with cerebral palsy.
Hard to believe our Research Experience for Undergraduate’s (REUs) time in the lab is coming to an end. Lekha, Sasha, and Albert will present their work over the past 10 weeks at the CSNE this afternoon. Large progress has been made in the world of 3D printing, orthotic design, and open-source affordable electromyography systems. To celebrate their accomplishments, the lab ventured to a cafe and finished the evening with round robin table tennis. Go huskies!
The Ability & Innovation Lab took a trip to Seattle Pacific University this morning to meet up with Adam Arabian’s lab. Both teams share a passion for open-source, 3D printed prosthetic and orthotic devices and discussed future potential collaborations.
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