Our director of the Human Ability and Engineering Lab, Kat Steele, is highlighted in the Puget Sound Business Journal. Below a blurb from the article can be read, but to read in full, follow this LINK.
People in Research: How Kat Steele applied her engineering roots to health care
“Mechanical engineering is so flexible that you can work from aerospace to medicine,” she explained. “Prosthetic limbs, joint replacements…all those devices they are developing now for health care have a lot of mechanical engineering in their roots.”
Now at the UW, Steele is the director of the Human Ability & Engineering Lab where she and her team focus on need-based human-centered designs, mainly for people with cerebral palsy, spinal cord injuries or those who have had a stroke.
Great job to lab members Ben Shuman, Michael Rosenberg, Sasha Portnova, and Hwan Choi for presenting their work at this year’s American Society of Biomechanics this August. To view the program and read more about biomechanics research, 
