biomedical engineering

Oct 3, 2013

Researchers seek to control prosthetic legs with neural signals

Most people don’t think about the difference between walking across the room and walking up a flight of stairs. But for people using prosthetic legs, there is no automatic link between their bodies and their prosthetics. Researchers from NC State and the University of Houston are hoping to change that. 

Jun 8, 2013

Life changers

After learning that few options exist for physical rehabilitation in El Remate, a small village in northern Guatemala, NC State biomedical engineering student Eyob Eyualem and his senior design team chose to help. They designed a stationary bicycle with special wooden footplates that can be crafted by local carvers to give injured riders more stability as they pedal. 

Jun 6, 2013

Ready for business

The Chancellor's Innovation Fund helps NC State engineers and computer scientists bring their ideas to the marketplace. 

Apr 24, 2013

NC State engineering student receives Goldwater Scholarship

A North Carolina State University engineering student has received the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship for the 2013-2014 academic year. 

Mar 1, 2013

Sloan fellowship awarded to biomedical engineer Anne Marion Taylor

Anne Marion Taylor is among 126 scientists and scholars in the United States and Canada to receive 2013 Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Taylor is an assistant professor in the joint biomedical engineering department at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 

Oct 13, 2011

BME seminar speaker discusses cell-sorting technology

An acclaimed scientist spoke to a packed room of biomedical engineering students at North Carolina State University in September to discuss a cell-sorting technology that may hold promise for use in human cell therapies such as bone marrow transplants.