Biomechanical Engineering for Health
We are bridging critical gaps in technical expertise between engineering and medicine to facilitate transformative research and innovation; we are leveraging recent successes in manufacturing of materials and devices for drug delivery and cancer research. We have strengths in autonomous safety, orthopedics and brain health.
Research Labs
Center For Applied Biomechanics
Lab Director: Jason Kerrigan
As the largest university-based injury biomechanics laboratory in the world, the center specializes in impact biomechanics for injury prevention. It’s where crash survival becomes a science.
Motion Analysis and Motor Performance Laboratory
Lab Director: Shawn Russell
The Motion Analysis and Motor Performance Lab focuses on using a combination of cutting edge clinical measures in conjunction with state of the art custom modeling techniques to increase our understanding of human movement. Our work is used to inform medical interventions...
Multiscale Muscle Mechanics (M3) Laboratory
Lab Director: Silvia S. Blemker
The goal of the M3 Lab’s research is to identify the principles of muscle design by characterizing the relationships between muscle structure, mechanical properties, biology, and function.
Xu Research Group
Lab Director: Baoxing Xu
The Xu Research Group projects focus multiscale mechanics for functional material and device design — in particular, nanoporous materials, nanopore-functional liquid composite materials, bioinspired and biointegrated electronics and devices, soft-hard integration and adaptive soft materials.