Phenomenal Solar Power, Itty-Bitty Storage Space
See the stop-motion animation highlighting the NASA-funded research of CMR PhD student Shannon Zirbel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Y4fpU5W-3n8 (Read Full Article)
BYU Student Set to Receive NASA Award for Innovative Design
Mechanical engineering Ph.D. student Ezekiel Merriam has proposed research that has again drawn the attention of NASA to the Compliant Mechanisms Research Group (CMR) of Brigham Young University. (Read Full Article)
New Handbook for Compliant Mechanisms Published by ME faculty and alumni
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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BYU CMR Professor gives Keynote Address at Smart Structures Symposium
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. Douglass Hofmann, Founder of the Metallurgy Facility at JPL, visits BYU
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)
Graduate Seminar Hosted Assistant Professor from the Netherlands
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)
BYU CMR Grad Student Wins First Place
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)
BYU CMR Professor Visits China
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)
CMR Authors Receive Best Paper Award
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)
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