Department of mechanical engineering

Recent innovations include a noninvasive external urine collection device, a system designed to simplify how clinicians manage fluid balance in critically ill patients, an ergonomic assist device for ureteroscopy and new ways to prevent kidney stones.

Chandrima Kartik, Tom Samuel, Tanvir Chowdhury, Md Ibnul Rahman, Muhammad Shiraz Ahmad, graduate students at UAB have received research grants from Alabama EPSCoR.

UAB’s Kathy Lu, Ph.D., will work in conjunction with other universities to lead a $7.5 million MURI project to optimize compositionally complex ceramics for hypersonics.

Through this new partnership, students can receive hands-on learning to prepare them for the manufacturing and metalworking industry.

Blazer Bridge Fund provides financial support to innovative ideas and inventions by the UAB community, encouraging advanced discovery. 

Two University of Alabama at Birmingham graduate students were recently awarded Alabama EPSCoR Graduate Research Scholars Program awards.

UAB experts offer tips on staying safe while horseback riding.

Gould’s helmet research added variables such as fall height and the type of surface struck.

This study was done in mice and with a novel, tissue-engineered, three-dimensional breast cancer mimetic system.

Engineering students develop umbrella for power wheelchair users to present at international conference.