Check out Showfest, a display of games created by WPI students from its Interactive Media and Game Development program this academic year. View the program presentation and then have fun playing the games!
Are you interested in helping the health and lives of others? Have you ever wondered how prosthetics, pacemakers, or hip replacements were designed? Learn from Professor Billiar about the field of Biomedical Engineering (BME) and some of the research that is being done at WPI to further advance our understanding biology and medicine.
Learn about the research Dr. Zhong’s Integrated Materials and Processes Design (IMPD) group is working on to design the next generation of materials. Specifically, learn how the group uses computational modeling techniques such as machine learning to simulate a material’s behavior. With these simulations, the group can study the properties and performance of new materials for applications in alloys, ceramics, and nanomaterials without actually making them.
COVID virus can be transmitted via airborne routes. The virus begins in the lung and is exhaled out through respiratory activities such as breathing and talking. When the virus is spread out through the mouth or nose, it is either contained within large droplets that settle down quickly or tiny aerosols (100 times smaller than a human hair diameter) that stay and flow with air for even hours. In this exhibit, we will be able to see the transmission of the tiny infectious aerosols using smoke visualization and answer questions through aerosol measurements.
Join us for an engaging student interview series. In this series our students will share personal stories about what drew them to STEM, their passions, experiences in the STEM community and plans for the future.
Professor Nephew and Professor King are currently focusing on using fNIRS technology to study chronic pain in hopes of identifying biomarkers or aspects of brain activity that predict levels of chronic pain. By using the fNIRS technology, the team is able to measure levels of oxygenated and deoxygenated blood which indirectly correlates with a change in brain activity. Putting those with and without chronic pain through a series of cognitive and physical tests, they are hoping to discover certain indicators or predictors of chronic pain as well measure the effectiveness of a variety of treatments for chronic pain.
When most people picture robots, they see machines with rigid parts. The robots developed by Cagdas Onal, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and robotics engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), are soft, with parts made from deformable plastics and rubber. Soft robots are safer to operate around people and are ideally suited to carry out a variety of tasks that their traditionally rigid cousins can’t, including moving snake-like through confined spaces. But their ability to bend in many axes and change their shape make them unable to carry heavy loads, which limits their utility. Onal is building a new class of variable-stiffness robots that have which have rigidity and softness. His innovative designs draw on the ancient art of paper folding, known as origami.
New wireless sensor technology developed at WPI is bringing newfound hope to those with Limb Loss.
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