Students from the UB Biomedical Engineering Society chapter collaborated with the SEAS Intramural program to work with Saebo, a biomedical device company, on improving the SaeboFlex glove, the current market standard for hand rehabilitation.
Shaopeng Li, a PhD student specializing in wind engineering won the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded Multi-Hazard Engineering Collaboratory for Hybrid Simulation (MECHS) three-minute thesis competition.
Aerospace engineering student Rachael Gold won first place in the undergraduate category at the WE Local Des Moines Collegiate Competition for her research on eliminating debris in space.
A group of engineering undergraduate students put their knowledge, creativity and resources to use and created a UB chapter of e-NABLE – an online global community who use 3D printers to make free and low-cost prosthetic upper limb devices for adults and children in need.
The team, comprising mostly freshmen and sophomores, designed a solar photovoltaic and battery storage system for a college campus in the Department of Energy sponsored competition.