Advanced Biomechanics

Catalog description

This course presents engineering tools, techniques, and concepts employed in biomechanics applications and research in a number of fields, with an overview of the major challenges in movement biomechanics. The course starts with in-depth talks covering digital signal processing techniques of electromyography signals. Studies merging the knowledge of medical imaging and biomechanical properties are illustrated through ultrasound imaging. The course then discusses analysis of musculoskeletal injuries and disorders and how to diagnose them quantitatively. Several prosthetic device designs as reported in the literature will be discussed and some will be modelled using the tools learnt though the course. Course goals will be achieved through lectures, homework problems, the motion capture laboratory, simulation exercises, and student research projects and presentations.