Engineering to enhance human mobility, play, and exploration
Please join us THIS THURSDAY, January 26th for a Bioengineering seminar (part of the BIOEN 509 Seminar Series) presented by Kat Steele – Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington.
Title of Presentation: The Ultimate Machine: Engineering to Improve Movement for Children with Cerebral Palsy
Date/Time: Thursday, January 26, 2017; 12:30 – 1:20PM
Location: Foege N130
See you there!
Making Engineering Welcoming and Accessible for Students with Disabilities
Check out this upcoming webinar featuring some of our AccessEngineering team!
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Wednesday, January 18, 2017
Complimentary 1-hour session! 1-2 pm ET, 12-1 pm CT, 11 am-12 pm MT, 10-11 am PTSponsored by NAPE, STEM Equity Pipeline, and the National Science Foundation |
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Description
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This webinar focuses on strategies for making engineering welcoming and accessible for students with disabilities. The University of Washington presenters run the AccessEngineering program, a nationwide program that works to increase the participation of people with disabilities in engineering academic programs and careers and improve engineering with their expertise. Project staffs engage faculty and students nationwide in efforts to (1) better serve a diverse student body, including students with a broad range of disabilities, in engineering courses and programs, and (2) integrate relevant accessibility-related and universal design content into engineering courses. Intended Audience Community college, high school and university faculty, counselors, CTE and STEM staff Objectives Participants will
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Registration
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Register for this 1-hour complimentary webinar on Wednesday, January 18, 2017. Once you register for the complimentary event, information and instructions about accessing the event will be sent to your email address
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This past Friday, the University unleashed its most ambitious philanthropic campaign, UW Together. The Ability & Innovation Lab was honored to have a team of undergraduate’s work featured, an elbow-driven orthosis for Jayna.
This story is now featured in the Seattle Times NW Showcase section, and Kat, our Director, is featured in an ad to the right of the story. To read and watch the video, CLICK HERE. We are proud to partner with the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE) here in the College of Engineering. Innovation occurs at the intersection of multiple disciplines, and Together we can change the world.
Go Dawgs and Go Biomechanics!
Interested in how technology can be used to make a difference in pediatric rehabilitation? A video cast from the National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research (NCMRR) discusses the topic in Bethesda MD. The workshop is organized by the Motion Analysis Laboratory and supported by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.
The workshop on August 9th, 2016 brought together a group of experts in rehabilitation to discuss how technology can help us to address pressing needs in pediatric rehabilitation. To follow all of the talks this past week and listen to “Can Technology Make a Difference in Pediatric Rehabilitation?”, follow this link, CLICK HERE.
Techbridge is a program that inspires girls to discover a passion for technology, science and engineering. Through hands-on learning, they empower the next generation of innovators and leaders.
We had two groups of young women join us in our lab to talk about mechanical engineering and how we use engineering principles to help individuals with movement impairments. To demonstrate the human body’s ability to control devices, the girls took turns moving a robot gripper using the electrical signals read from their own arm muscles (read more about this neat application here).
