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UNC Charlotte has established the new Infrastructure, Design, Environment and Sustainability Center to bring university research expertise to the solving of problems that arise from the complex relationships between humans and their environment.

“The robot’s name was ‘Wakka.’ The name was derived from a subroutine called ‘Whack Whack.’ The subroutine is what tells the arms to “whack” the items into the robot. “Our robot was autonomous and began its course with the push of a button labeled ‘start.’ The robot dimensions were limited to one-foot by one-foot by […]

Protein drugs are very unstable and generally must be stored in a dry state that requires a costly manufacturing process.

“To our knowledge, this is the first bioreactor engineered with cell storage as a key design criteria ” Dr. Coger said.

Dr. Matt Davies is teaching Introduction to Biomechanics in fall 2009. The class covers static, dynamic and structural analysis of the musculoskeletal system, mechanical behavior of bone and soft tissues, and analysis of common engineered implants.

Established in 2005, CBES is led by Director Robin Coger, who is a professor in the Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science Department.

With the goal of developing laboratory research into clinical applications, two UNC Charlotte researchers formed HepatoSys Inc. in 2005. The spin-off company was started by Dr. Charles Lee of Mechanical Engineering and Dr. Mark Clemens of Biology.

“By using biomedical materials we can take drugs directly to the area needed, without impacting the rest of the body,” Dr. El-Ghannam said. “It is a way to deliver specific drug concentrations to a specific area for a specific period of time to cause healing.” The drug will not go to the blood and therefore […]

Q&A with Rob Wessels