2015 Levinson Emerging Scholar

Sasha during her first testing session with her 3D-printed orthosis.Sasha Portnova has been named one of ten 2015 Levinson Emerging Scholar’s! This is a highly competitive program supporting talented and highly motivated undergraduates who want to pursue creative and advanced bioscience and related research. As a Levinson Emerging Scholar, she will receive funding to support her research, including funding to present their findings at a professional conference. The award will support Sasha’s on-going research to improve the design of affordable, 3D-printed orthoses for individuals with spinal cord injury and other neurologic disorders. She will also be presenting this work at the American Academy of Orthotists & Prosthetists in Orlando, March 9-11, 2016.

Congratulations Sasha!

Ivan Owen: Washington Access Fund 2015

CKing 5 story on prosthetic work at UW Bothell.ongratulations to one of our collaborators, Ivan Owen from UW Bothell, for being selected as one of the top nominees for the Washington Access Fund 2015 Innovation Award! Ivan was one of the original co-creators for the 3D-printed prosthetic hand and released the designs open-source which has led to the formation of the global Enable movement.

You can also learn more about Ivan’s recent work on this recent news story from King 5
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We will find out on Nov. 12th if Ivan is the 2015 awardee. Good luck Ivan!

Lab featured in ME Video

Gaurav Mukherjee speaking in the ME Department's video.The Ability & Innovation Lab was featured in the College of Engineering’s Video on mechanical engineering. Hopefully we can help to get more future engineers interested in working with the ultimate machine! Sylvie and Gaurav did a fantastic job sharing their experiences and future ambitions working as mechanical engineers.

You can watch the full video here: You Tube

Celebrating Our Summar Research Undergrads

2015 summer REU students

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!

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H Choi, KM Rumberger, KM Steele, “Fabrication of customized 3D-printed variable stiffness ankle foot orthoses to evaluate muscle function,” Gait & Clinical Movement Analysis Society (Portland, OR) March 18-21, 2015.

H Choi, KM Rumberger, KM Steele, “Fabrication of customized 3D-printed variable stiffness ankle foot orthoses to evaluate muscle function,” Gait & Clinical Movement Analysis Society (Portland, OR) March 18-21, 2015.

Hwan Choi presents at Gait & Clinical Movement Analysis Society Annual Conference:

Fabrication of customized 3D-printed variable stiffness ankle foot orthoses to evaluate muscle function

Portland, OR (March 18-21, 2015)