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Taking Origami to Space
Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli demonstrates the use of innovative origami designs created by CMR engineers
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Inaugural Mechanical Design Collective Colloquium by Dr. Robert Lang
The Mechanical Design Collective was honored to hear from Dr. Robert Lang for the group’s inaugural colloquium event held in the Karl G. Maeser Building lecture hall. The title of Dr. Lang’s talk was “From Paper to Steel: Origami in Other Media” and spoke to the group about his journey in designing origami with paper to creating larger-than-life-size origami designs and creations. The colloquium included a discussion about how the lessons learned can influence the group’s research.
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CMR Research Group tops the podium at ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences
The BYU Compliant Mechanisms Research Lab enjoyed enormous success at this year’s Design Engineering Technical Conferences hosted by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Students claimed first and second place in the Graduate Division of the 2017 ASME International Student Mechanisms Design Competition in Cleveland, Ohio, in August.
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PhD student receives NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship
Nathan Pehrson, a PhD student studying mechanical engineering, recently received the NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship (NSTRF). Pehrson was awarded over $60,000 for the fellowship and will begin in August, while still working to finish his PhD.
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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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1st Place ASME International Mechanisms & Robotics Competition
BYU Compliant Mechanisms Research graduate student Clayton Grames was awarded 1st Place in the Graduate Division of the 2015 ASME International Student Mechanisms Design Competition at the ASME-sponsored IDETC conference in Boston, Massachusetts.
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CMR Ph.D. Student Todd Nelson Awarded NSF Fellowship
Mechanical engineering Ph.D. student Todd Nelson was recently awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation.
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CMR Ph.D. Student Alden Yellowhorse Awarded NASA Fellowship
Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. student Alden Yellowhorse has been awarded one of only 65 NASA Space Technology Research Fellowships for the year 2015, with opportunities to renew in future years. These fellowships are awarded to students whose research shows potential for future use in NASA missions.
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CMR paper featured on the cover of Advanced Engineering Materials
Professor Larry Howell and Ph.D. student Shannon Zirbel of the BYU CMR, along with researchers from NASA JPL and Cal Tech, collaborated with Dr. Eric Homer and Matt Haris to write a paper on the use of bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) in compliant mechanisms. BMGs have among the highest elastic strain limit of any metals and can be injection molded like polymers, making them ideal compliant mechanisms materials. This paper was featured on the front cover of Advanced Engineering Material’s most recent issue. Click here to read the paper.
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CMR Students Win Big at IDETC 2013
BYU compliant mechanisms research students won first and second place in the Undergraduate Division of the 2013 ASME International Student Mechanisms Design Competition and second place in the graduate student division at this year's ASME-sponsored IDETC conference in Portland, Oregon.
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Compliant Mechanisms Math Students Win at MathFest 2013
Mathematics students Austin Unsicker, Tyler Hills, Jordan Porter, Alex Safsten, and Travis Fillmore represented BYU well at MathFest 2013 in Hartford Connecticut where they received three awards for their presentations on origami mathematics.
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BYU Student Set to Receive NASA Award for Innovative Design
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/56489304-78/nasa-space-research-students.html.csp?page=2
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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.
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CMR Authors Receive Best Paper Award
The paper explores the use of using compliant design to create a prosthetic that can bear compressive loads when it is both flexed and un-flexed, mimicking natural knee function. PhD student Shannon Zirbel was the paper’s lead author. Coauthors included CMR professors Spencer Magleby and Larry Howell, UC Denver professor Ron Rorrer, BYU students Shane Curtis, Rachel Bradshaw, Luke Duffield, and Greg Teichert, and UC Denver student Nicholas Williams. Much of the work was based on earlier research by CMR alumnus Alex Guerinot.
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NASA wants BYU grad student's ideas in outer space
Shannon Zirbel set to work on robotics at NASA Jet Propulsion Lab
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ME students win MEMS photo contest
Three BYU Mechanical Engineering graduate students won first and second place in the 5th Annual Micro- and Nano-Systems Conference Photo Contest held as part of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences in Washington, D.C. August 28-31, 2011. Greg Teichert and Greg Holst won first place for their entry “Spatial MEMS Mechanism for Cell Restraint,” and Walter Fazio won second place for his entry “Carbon-Infiltrated Carbon Nanotube Cell Restraint Device.”
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BYU students perform well at international conference
Student teams from BYU won several awards at the ASME Mechanisms & Robotics Conference in Washington, D.C., August 28-31, 2011.
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Student Receives Prestigious Fellowship
Three BYU Mechanical Engineering students have been awarded the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship. Among the awardees was Greg Teichert, a member of the BioMEMs research group. He received the prestigious awards after a rigorous selection process, and will benefit from a three-year annual stipend, a generous cost of education allowance for tuition and fees, and an international travel allowance, as well as the freedom to conduct their own research at any accredited institution of graduate education he chooses.
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