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Students engineer hand-trike attachment for LDS Charities global wheelchair program

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
April 08, 2018
BYU engineering students are helping make LDS Charities wheelchairs even better for people in need around the globe.

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BYU-developed helmet smartfoam signals potential concussions in real time

By Jayne Edwards
September 20, 2017
Ph.D. student Jake Merrell and his mentors have developed a smartfoam that can be placed inside a football helmet to more accurately test the impact and power of hits. The nano composite foam can help diagnose concussions.

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Five years later, BYU's village drill project bringing clean water to hundreds of thousands

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
September 13, 2017
In 2011, a group of mechanical engineering students built a human-powered drill to dig water wells as part of a senior capstone course. The project seemed promising, but little did they know how life-changing it would become.

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BYU researchers helping connect fluid dynamics research to brain trauma

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
September 10, 2017
As many YouTube videos show, striking the top of a liquid-filled bottle can shatter the bottom. Researchers are hoping to use new knowledge of the party trick to help fill a gap in something much more serious: brain research.

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Training computers, helping humans

Andrea Christensen
By Andrea Christensen
May 01, 2017
Three BYU professors recently received Career Awards: the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious award for junior faculty.

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Students creating prosthetic sockets for thousands of amputees in Africa

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
April 19, 2017
BYU engineering students have teamed with non-profit Engage Now Africa to create a socket for above-knee amputees that fits neatly into prosthetics made available by the international Red Cross.

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Engineering students make biking possible for kids with leg-length discrepancies

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
April 10, 2017
Mechanical engineering students at BYU have created a special adapter to a bike pedal that allows people with leg-length discrepancies and knee flexibility issues ride smoothly and painlessly.

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Engineering students use virtual reality to develop aerospace and defense solutions

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
February 26, 2017
Students partner with Lockheed Martin to use video game VR for engineering training
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BYU engineers built a bulletproof origami shield to protect law enforcement

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
February 15, 2017
BYU engineering professors have created an origami-inspired, lightweight bulletproof shield that can protect law enforcement from gunfire.

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BYU Academic VP Receives Top Engineering Award

November 17, 2016
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) has selected BYU Academic Vice President Brent Webb as a recipient of one of the highest honors given in mechanical engineering.

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Solar-panel picnic tables and bus stops? Students starting a 'solar-cell revolution'

October 31, 2016
A group of BYU engineering students hope to trigger energy change by installing solar cells in public locations you wouldn't think of.

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Tiny origami-inspired devices opening up new possibilities for minimally-invasive surgery

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
March 02, 2016
BYU mechanical engineers have made a name for themselves by applying the principles of origami to engineering. Now they're applying their origami skills to a new realm: the human body.

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Professors' super waterproof surfaces cause water to bounce like a ball

May 20, 2014
Julie Crockett and Dan Maynes have spent decades studying super-hydrophobic surfaces. Some of this research has resulted in commercial products, but the professors are finding characteristics aimed at large-scale solutions for society.

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BYU students develop innovative prosthetic hand for a young mom

April 19, 2010
BYU engineering students spent their senior year developing a custom prosthetic hand for a young mom who lost her fingers after being stricken with septicemia, a life-threatening blood infection.

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