UWM students and faculty were featured in a contributed story in the health section of April’s MKE Lifestyles magazine. The story highlighted how 3D printing is used in orthopedics and in biomedical engineering research.
The story included undergraduate Mohith Kumar, who used 3D printing in research with assistant professor Qingsu Cheng, biomedical engineering. The article also gave insight from assistant professor Priya Premnath, also biomedical engineering, and quoted lab members of Professor Habib Rahman, mechanical engineering.
Rahman’s lab uses 3D printing to design robotic assistive devices for patient rehabilitation.
Postdoctoral researcher Asif Swapnil discussed several of the robotic devices the lab has built to deliver physical therapy. He explains that innovation in robotics comes from testing, adjusting, and trying again — a process that 3D printing makes dramatically faster.
Graduate students Md Enamul Haque and Md Mahafuzur Rahaman Khan displayed their projects – aa assistive leg robot that helps patients get physical therapy without leaving bed and versions of handle designs for a desktop robotic arm to determine which provided the most user comfort.