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Post-stroke neuromuscular impairments can alter gait patterns, leading to aberrant knee joint loading. Changes in knee loads can result in cartilage damage and joint pain, which is associated with a reduction in mobility and greater risk for developing osteoarthritis that can inhibit activities of daily living. Using musculoskeletal models in OpenSim, we estimated knee joint compressive loads for control (N=8) ... Read More

Robotic prosthetic arms typically rely on muscle-based control systems, but alternative approaches may enable more flexible interaction with the environment. This project explores the use of artificial intelligence and external sensing to control a robotic arm using environmental inputs rather than direct muscle signals. An ESP32 microcontroller connects the robotic arm to a computer via Bluetooth, allowing commands generated through ... Read More

Architects have a big impact on everyone's life; you are most likely standing in buildings that an architect designed. How do people become architects? Almost all accredited architects have to participate in the Architectural Experience Program (AXP) and complete 3,740 minimum hours as the main way to complete their AXP. This presentation will show the experiences architects go through within ... Read More

Automated aquarium monitors are expensive. Hobbyists may test manually on occasion, while researchers choose between high costs or reduced accuracy. In addition, potential tank contamination with substances such as Hg or KCl is a concern. As an alternative, our design uses a hands-free brief submersion of water for external analysis. A 3D-printed structure was attached to a stepper motor. The ... Read More

Surgical procedures often involve strategic incision, suturing, and deformation of tissue, resulting in deliberate geometric manipulation of material. Such manipulations impose local deficits or excesses of material, in the form of conical singularities or disclinations, leading to geometric material responses (eg. emergence of ridges, conical regions, and stress localization). As fundamental components of surgical procedures on flat tissue (e.g., Z-plasty) ... Read More

Anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are a major driver of climate change, motivating the need for more effective carbon capture and storage methods. This study investigates the potential of using gas centrifuge systems for CO2 separation and enrichment (Oh & Lee 2022). Using computer simulations, we model the outputs of CO2 within rotating centrifuge chambers and examine how changes in ... Read More

The R_{2,2N} theories are an infinite family of non-Lagrangian SCFTs which appear in the strong-coupling limit of SU(2N+1) gauge theories with hypermultiplets symmetric and antisymmetric tensor representations. These theories are particularly interesting as they are known to arise in class S as compactifications of the A_{2N} (2,0) theories in the presence of outer-automorphism twists. These twists are particularly subtle, and ... Read More