2020
The Rocky Mountain Seminar Series provides Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder faculty, staff and students with the opportunity to hear from researchers across disciplines from various institutions.
Shankar Lalitha Sridhar is being awarded an Outstanding Dissertation Award from the College of Engineering and Applied Science. Check out his Q&A to learn more.
Undergraduate researchers share their experiences as participants in theÌýME SPUR Program. ME SPUR, modeled after Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Summer Program for Undergraduate Research,Ìýenabled undergraduate students to work with mechanical engineering faculty on research that could be conducted remotely.
As ME SPUR participants, Kirsty Hodgkins, Evan Kirk andÌýPaula Pérez worked with Professor Jana MilfordÌýto understandÌýhow reduced traffic, telecommuting and reduced industrial activity during Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ's Stay-at-Home and Safer-at-Home orders have affected air quality with goals that the project would inform future strategies for improving air quality.
As an ME SPUR participant,ÌýRyan Smith worked with Assistant Professor Nick Bottenus to use medical image data to develop 3D finite element models of the abdominal wall and perform various compressions to mimic clinical practice.Ìý
As an ME SPUR participant, Paul DiTomas worked with Research Professor John Pellegrino to perform analysis for scenarios of the minimum energy requirement for robotic missions that will be used in a review article about portable power devices for next-gen robots.
As an ME SPUR participant,ÌýSydney Evans worked withÌýAssistant Professor Kaushik Jayaram toÌýdevelop a novel robot capable of sticking to and navigating virtually any surface, leveraging electrostatic attraction.
As an ME SPUR participant,ÌýJonathon Gruener worked with Associate Professor Svenja KnappeÌýto create a testing environment for highly-sensitive miniature magnetic field sensors withÌýnon-invasive brain imaging, spaceÌýand industrial applications.
As an ME SPUR participant, Andrew Beiter worked with Assistant Professor Debanjan MukherjeeÌýto develop an in-house library of models for arterial hemodynamics in human patients, using CT and MRI scans and microscopy image data. HisÌýsummer research project was titled,ÌýImage-Based Modeling for Cardiovascular Systems.
As an ME SPUR participant,ÌýJulia Beattie worked withÌýProfessor Corey Neu toÌýmeasure intranuclear mechanics.ÌýThe goal was to provide a non-invasive framework to investigate the mechanobiological function of subcellular and subnuclear domains limited only by the spatiotemporal resolution of the image acquisition method.