Engineering to enhance human mobility, play, and exploration
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!
We are welcoming three awesome undergraduate students to our lab this year. All three are participating in a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) with the NSF Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering.
To introduce the crew to the lab, we had kick-off meetings today. After lunch at Aqua Verde we headed to the CSNE to an introduction and demo with electromyography (EMG) which will be critical for Lekha’s project. Later in the afternoon, our partners from Seattle Pacific University and the UW Division of Prosthetics & Orthotics stopped by for a kick-off meeting to discuss how Albert and Sasha can help to improve and test the design of open-source orthoses for individuals with impaired hand function.
For Science!