CMR News
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CMR Awarded National Science Foundation Research Grant
The BYU Compliant Mechanisms Research lab was awarded a research grant from the National Science Foundation to support research on compliant mechanisms on developable surfaces. The grant begins May 2017 and will extend through April 2020. Work will build on a foundation created by research in origami-based compliant mechanisms, funded through a previous grant awarded by NSF’s Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation program. Dr. Robert Lang will continue to work with the Compliant Mechanisms Research lab as part of this grant.
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CMR Graduate Student Takes First Place in Three Minute Thesis Competition
Jared Butler, graduate student in the CMR lab, took first place in the Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering & Technology Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition earlier this week. He took first place in two categories, overall as well as the People’s Choice. He will be advancing to the university-wide competition held on March 9, 2017.
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CMR Designed Bulletproof Origami Shield
BYU engineering students and professors have created an origami-inspired, lightweight bulletproof shield that can protect law enforcement from gunfire.
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CMR research highlighted on PBS’ NOVA
The NOVA episode “The Origami Revolution” will air today, Wednesday, February 15th. Some of the origami research from the CMR lab has been highlighted.
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BYU Research on Display at Chimei Museum in Tainan City, Taiwan
The “Origami Universe” exhibition is being held at the Chimei Museum in Tainan City, Taiwan. This exhibition features origami art from around the world and includes BYU’s origami-based engineering research. The CMR Lab has several pieces on display, including deployable solar arrays, origami-inspired surgical devices, microsystems for nanoinjection, and origami-inspired backpacks. The Chimei is also looping two BYU-produced videos for their patrons to view, and is making use of the CMR-produced app, “Folded BY-U”, in their hands-on area. The exhibit is being held through May 2017.
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Dr. Larry Howell Invited to Taiwan and China
Dr. Larry Howell visited Taiwan and China to interact with researchers, give invited talks and present a workshop. In Taiwan he led a hands-on origami workshop and gave a seminar at the D-School at Taiwan National University, gave an invited lecture at National Cheng Kung University in Tainan, Taiwan. His host was Prof. Chin-Hsing Kuo of National Taiwan University of Science and Technology.
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Discover Magazine Blog Features BYU Origami Bellows
Discover Magazine's Astrobeat blog interviewed CMR grad student Jared Butler and wrote an article about the origami-inspired space bellows. Click here to read the article.
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Featured Journal Article
A recent CMR article has been selected as a featured article by the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design.
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Anatomy of Invention
Larry Howell, professor of Mechanical Engineering and the recipient of the 2016 BYU Distinguished Faculty Award, delivered the BYU Forum address May 17, 2016.
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Surgical Origami
CMR engineers have shown how to use origami for engineering products. Now they're working with the the medical industry, including Intuitive Surgical (developer of the Da Vinci surgical robot), to make smaller surgical tools. Watch now.
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Students Complete Origami-Based Starshade Model
Congratulations to Mechanical Engineering students Bridget Beatson, Mary Wilson and Amanda Lytle for shipping out their starshade model this week!
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CMR Student Shines on ESPN
Rock stars, Olympians, first-round draft picks, and . . . a CMR PhD student on ESPN!
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