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Jordyn Schroeder and Laksh Kumar Punith Featured in Georgia Tech PACE Newsletter
Congratulations to Jordyn and Laksh for being featured in the Winter 2020 Partnership for an Advanced Computing Environment (PACE) newsletter! Both PhD students have used the Georgia Tech supercomputing resources for their projects. Laksh is interested in understanding how muscle-tendon…
Project ENGAGES Student Wendy Nevarez-Sanchez Wins Spot at International Science and Engineering Fair!
Congratulations to Wendy Nevarez-Sanchez for winning a spot at the 2020 Internation Science and Engineering Fair held in Anaheim, CA! A high schooler from South Atlanta High School, Wendy has been involved with Project ENGAGES since May of 2019. With…
Lindsey Trejo Wins Georgia Tech CRIDC Travel Grant!
2nd year PhD student Lindsey Trejo won the Executive Vice President of Research’s Travel Award for her poster presentation at the 2020 Career, Research, and Innovation Development Conference at Georgia Tech. Her poster describes how an elastic ankle exoskeleton could…
Interactions between elastic ankle exoskeleton stiffness and walking speed
Previous PoWeR Lab PhD student and current postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard, Richard Nuckols, is first author of a preprint that explores the interaction of ankle exoskeletons stiffness, muscle activation, and walking speed. Check it out here!
Explaining why springy ankle exoskeletons might make walking easier
Previous PoWeR Lab PhD student and current postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard, Richard Nuckols, is first author of a preprint that dives into the mechanism by which elastic ankle exoskeletons may reduce the metabolic cost of walking. This work describes…
We also cook a mean chili!
The PoWeR Lab and friends had a strong showing at this year’s Chomp and Stomp Chili Festival! Team PoWeR Chomp cooked 7.5 gallons of pork chili (Pork PoWeR-Up) and 12 gallons of mushroom chili (PoWeR Shroom). Jordyn’s mushroom chili was…
Falling in Holes According to the PoWeR Lab
Congratulations to former PoWeR Lab Postdoc Taylor Dick and current PhD student Laksh Punith for their new paper on how limb mechanics help us deal with unexpected perturbations. Check out the paper here.
PoWeR and EPIC labs featured in Georgia Tech Mechanical Engineering News
The PoWeR and EPIC labs have been featured in an article from the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech. The article highlights the different approaches of both labs as well as the wearable robots we develop and use.…
September 2019 Publication Update
Three papers have been recently published by our lab. Postdoc Emily Abbott, Postdoc Owen Beck, and former Postdoc and now Lecturer at University of Queensland Taylor Dick are first authors of the following articles currently In Press: Dick TJM, Punith…
PhD Student Jordyn Schroeder Awarded a Sloan Fellowship!
Congratulations to 3rd-year PoWeR Lab PhD student Jordyn Schroeder for winning a fellowship through the Sloan Minority Ph.D. Program (MPHD)! This award will fund her travel and professional development throughout her PhD program.