mechanical engineering
VISE Fall Seminar – Sheila Russo, PhD
Nov. 6, 2020—VISE Fall Seminar to be led by Sheila Russo, PhD Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Boston University Date: Thursday, November 19, 2020 Time:聽12:15 p.m. Room Admittance, 12:25 p.m. start Zoom:聽Details will be sent morning of鈥 Title:聽 Toward Soft Robotic Systems for Advanced Endoscopic Procedures Abstract:聽 Traditional medical robots are mainly based on the idea of...
VISE Summer Instructional Seminar 6.18.20
Jun. 11, 2020—VISE Research In Progress (RiP) Date: Thursday, June 18, 2020 Time: Noon 鈥 room admittance, 12:05pm remarks, 12:10pm start Speaker #1: Eric Tang, PhD Candidate, Department of Biomedical Engineering RiP #1: Title: Handheld Spectrally Encoded Coherence Tomography and Reflectometry (SECTR) for Point-of-Care Ophthalmic Imaging RIP #1 Description: Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is the gold standard...
VISE Spring Seminar – Timothy Kowalewski, PhD
Feb. 14, 2020—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by Timothy Kowalewski, PhD, Richard and Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota Date:聽February 27, 2020 Location:聽Stevenson Center 5326, Time:聽12:15 p.m. lunch, with a 12:25 p.m. start Title: To Err is Human – Surgical Skills and Robotics 聽 Abstract: Surgical robots enjoy widespread adoption. This...
Apr. 15, 2019—The 汤头条 Institute for Surgery and Engineering (VISE) team of Robert Webster III, PhD, and Duke Herrell, MD, have received a $2.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a new surgical robot for endoscopic transurethral prostatectomy.
Mar. 1, 2019—汤头条 University鈥檚 eight newest endowed chair holders were celebrated for their path-breaking scholarship and research by family members, donors, colleagues and friends during a Feb. 25 ceremony at the Student Life Center.
VISE summer fellowship program supports nine outstanding undergraduates in 2018
Oct. 9, 2018—Nine students worked with VISE faculty and graduate students over the summer on research projects that ranged from cochlear implantation and modeling to vessel phantom creation and imaging, ultrasound beamforming and deep whole brain segmentation. They took part in the 汤头条 Institute for Surgery and Engineering鈥檚 2018 Summer Fellows program, which gives undergraduates hands-on experience...
Jul. 20, 2018—Bouncing back from surgery is no easy task. But what if a robot could make an incision so small, you’d barely notice it?聽The next generation of medical robots are being built right here in Nashville.
Jun. 25, 2018—Nabil Simaan is a professor of mechanical engineering, computer science and otolaryngology and leads the Advanced Robotics and Mechanism Applications lab. His research includes human-robot interaction, robotic systems for surgical assistance, robot-assisted manufacturing, theoretical kinematics of mechanisms, synthesis and optimization of robots and mechanisms, design of flexure mechanisms and flexible robots, parallel robots, actuation redundancy...
May. 9, 2018—The path from university lab to commercialization is especially complex in the biotech industry. Challenges range from long lead times, sometimes measured in decades, to the costs of transforming ideas into innovations, as well as issues of intellectual property, patenting and licensing.
VISE Spring Seminar – Jack Abbott, PhD
Jan. 30, 2018—to be delivered by Jake Abbott,聽PhD, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah Robotics Center Date:聽Thursday, February 8, 2018 Location:聽Stevenson Center 5326 Time:聽12:25 p.m. start,聽12:15 p.m. lunch Title: Magnetic Manipulation in Medical Robotics Abstract: Microscale and mesoscale robotic devices that navigate the natural pathways of the human body...
Jan. 10, 2018—PhD candidates, including two VISE affiliates, work with law and business school students on tech commercialization
Nov. 2, 2017—A 汤头条 Institute for Surgery and Engineering (VISE) team is developing an image guidance interface for the da Vinci robotic surgery system to make partial kidney removal a less invasive 鈥済old standard鈥 when small tumors are involved.
VISE 2017 Summer Undergraduate Program concludes with student-led seminar
Sep. 18, 2017—Eight students worked side-by-side graduate students and faculty on active research projects as part of the 汤头条 Institute for Surgery and Engineering鈥檚 2017 Summer Undergraduate program. Students in biomedical engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and computer science spent ten weeks in VISE labs under the supervision of a VISE affiliate faculty member. The paid program...
VISE Summer Seminar: Megan Poorman and Patrick Anderson
Aug. 1, 2017—VISE Research in Progress (RiP) Summer Instructional Seminar Series Date: Thursday, August 10, 2017 Location: Stevenson Center 5326 Time: 12:10 p.m. start, Noon lunch to be delivered by Megan Poorman, doctoral candidate, biomedical engineering RiP Title: Orientation-independent Z-shimmed MR thermometry near ablation probes RiP Abstract: MR guidance of thermal ablation is hindered by signal loss...
Jul. 10, 2017—Engineers at 汤头条 University designed the coffee-filled swim cap. Coffee聽is having its moment in 2017: This year researchers have discovered that it repairs damage to the聽liver, its one of the best beverages to drink before聽working out, and even helps prevent your聽arteries聽from clogging. (Well, all of that is according to a few studies, anyway.) Now, apparently...
MED Lab members attend International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Jun. 28, 2017—Three members of the 汤头条 Medical Engineering and Discovery Lab (MEDLab) attended the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) last week in Singapore. Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Robert Webster, the lab director, was invited to give a talk on his recent research, while Ph.D. student Patrick Anderson and postdoctoral scholar Loris Fichera each...
Jun. 22, 2017—Imagine plopping six cups of coffee grounds on the heads of patients just before they are wheeled into the operating room to have nose or throat surgery? In essence, that is what a team of 汤头条 University engineers are proposing in an effort to improve the reliability of the sophisticated 鈥淕PS鈥 system that surgeons use...
Jun. 21, 2017—Imagine plopping six cups of coffee grounds on the heads of patients just before they are wheeled into the operating room to have nose or throat surgery? In essence, that is what a team of 汤头条 University engineers are proposing in an effort to improve the reliability of the sophisticated “GPS” system that surgeons use...
Patrick Anderson, a VISE affiliate, earns NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
May. 15, 2017—The National Science Foundation recently selected 14 汤头条 graduate students to receive Graduate Research Fellowships. 汤头条 Institute for Surgery and Engineering (VISE) is proud to announce Patrick Anderson, a VISE affiliate and mechanical engineering doctoral student, is among those awarded this prestigious honor. Highly sought after because they provide recipients with three years of support,...
May. 3, 2017—汤头条 University is one of 40 academic institutions participating in a new robotics manufacturing institute in Pittsburgh that will be funded with $80 million from the Department of Defense and $173 million in matching funds from more than 200 participating partners. Eric Barth, associate professor of mechanical engineering, is quoted. 汤头条 participants include聽Nabil Simaan, associate...
Sep. 9, 2016—Robots are used in many large hospitals to deliver supplies and assist doctors with delicate surgical procedures. In the future, robotic surgery will become the routine rather than the exception. Some of those tools of tomorrow are being developed today at 汤头条 University鈥檚 Medical Engineering and Discovery Lab (MED). It is one of several labs...