As part of Research Celebration Week, the Institute of Biomedical Engineering will celebrate its 60th anniversary by showcasing research that combines engineering, healthcare and artificial intelligence at an open house on Oct. 7 from 10 a.m. to noon, at RN Scott Hall, 25 Dineen Drive in Fredericton.
When a Fredericton rehabilitation centre turned to UNB for help, nobody imagined the request would spark decades of breakthroughs in prosthetic technology and rehabilitation science.
The Institute of Biomedical Engineering is now marking its 60th anniversary, celebrating its past and ongoing achievements with an open house in honour of the milestone.
"We will show the active research and clinical activities we are doing," said Dr. Jon Sensinger, the institute's director and a professor of electrical and computer engineering.
"We will also showcase our key identification technology, which allows us to identify you simply by the way you walk across the floor. We will showcase our upper limb pattern recognition work and some of our clinical technologies, including the multi-jet fusion printer that we use to create custom devices. Visitors will be able to see the CARE facility, which has a zero-gravity apparatus and a CAREN virtual reality platform."
