Mechanical Engineering professors Larry Howell and Spencer Magleby, along with Brian Olsen, a former student who now works at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, have recently edited an exciting new resource for engineers entitled, Handbook of Compliant Mechanisms. (Read Full Article)
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Dr. Larry Howell was invited to present a keynote address at the 2013 Smart Structures/NDE Conference in San Diego California during March 10-14th. (Read Full Article)
Dr. Douglas Hofmann, The Principal Investigator in the areas of Metallurgy and Materials Science at JPL, visited BYU Monday March 25th 2013 to visit the Compliant Mechanisms Research Group and the materials researchers. (Read Full Article)
On Monday, October 22nd at 4:00 pm, Assistant Professor Dannis Brouwer from the University of Twente, the Netherlands, presented his work on Flexure-Based Precision Mechnisms. (Read Full Article)
Graduate student Robert Fowler received 1st place in the Graduate Division of the 2012 ASME International Student Mechanisms & Robotics Design competition. Fowler's written entry, “A monolithic large-displacement compliant rotational hinge,” was selected as a finalist to be presented at the ASME Design Engineering Conferences held in Chicago, Illinois August 12-15, 2012. (Read Full Article)
Dr. Larry Howell was invited to visit China for two weeks in July 2012 where he was a keynote speaker at the ASME/IFToMM International Conference on Reconfigurable Mechanisms and Robots (ReMAR2012) and lectured at Xidian University (in Xi’an) and Beihang University (in Beijing). While there he presented recent developments in compliant mechanism research, collaborated with other researchers and discussed the possible Chinese translation of the forthcoming Handbook of Compliant Mechanisms. (Read Full Article)
A collaborative paper between the CMR and the University of Colorado Denver was awarded the Best Paper Award at the ASME/IFToMM International Conference on Reconfigurable Mechanisms and Robotics (ReMAR2012) in Tianjin China for the paper entitled “Bi-Behavioral Prosthetic Knee Enabled by a Metamorphic Compliant Mechanism.” (Read Full Article)
This Oreo-sized flexible disc developed at BYU could banish spinal fusion surgery and bring relief to millions who suffer from a common, agonizing ailment--low back pain. Read about what two professors and a recent Ph.D. graduate are doing with the disc. (Read Full Article)
Engineering Ph.D. student Shannon Zirbel has some ideas for how to improve the design of robotic spacecraft, and NASA likes what they've seen so far from her. Zirbel has earned a NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship, an academic award worth up to $198,000 that is propelling her research straight to the cosmos. (Read Full Article)
