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We are advancing patient care with 3D printing.  Watch the video below to see Dr. Ripley talk about the 3D printed insole created by 3D core engineer Brian Strzelecki and other members of Dr. Aubin’s team.  

Congratulations to Evan Schuster for being a finalist in the university wide 3-minute thesis presentation competition. Last week Evan received 2nd place and got a cash prize for explaining his research on improving walking canes for people with knee osteoarthritis. Next … Continue reading →

We welcome Dylan Reinsdorf to our group.  Dylan has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from California Polytechnic University. He previously worked at Covidien as a Manufacturing Engineer and Elixir Medical as a Process Development Engineer. Dylan’s M.S. project will focus on … Continue reading →

Check out the cool spotlight article about Gaurav Mukherjee on the American Society of Biomechanics Facebook page.

Dr. Aubin received funding to carry out a three year study to evaluate conservative treatments for ankle osteoarthritis.  Dr. Aubin’s team will be investigating two types of devices (a rocker bottom shoe and an ankle-foot orthosis) which may relieve pain and … Continue reading →

Andrea Willson successfully defended her MS ME thesis entitled, “A Quasi-Passive Biarticular Prosthesis and Novel Amputee Musculoskeletal Model for Transtibial Amputees”. She will be teaching Biomechanics at Seattle University in the fall. Congratulations Andrea!        Left, transtibial amputee Opensim … Continue reading →

Congratulations to all the students who presented at the 2017 VA RR&D CLiMB Young Investigator Symposium!

We welcome Luke Johnson to our group.  Luke has his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Washington Bothell. For his senior project he developed a 3D chocolate printer.  Luke’s MS research will focus on the development of a … Continue reading →

Congratulations to all the students who presented at the 2016 VA RR&D Center of Excellence  Young Investigator Symposium!

We welcome Chris Richburg to our group.  Chris previously worked at Blue Origin as an Actuated Systems Engineer and Boston Dynamics as a Senior Robotics Engineer. Chris will be in charge of creating and designing new biomechatronic prostheses, orthoses, and assistive devices for veterans with limited … Continue reading →