Presented by: ICORD Principal Investigator and Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Dr. Peter Cripton
Wednesday March 9, Noon-1:00 pm
Kaiser 2020/2030, UBC Point Grey Campus
Safety devices such as helmets, seatbelts and airbags are designed to prevent injuries by engineers who have expertise in the field of injury biomechanics. In injury biomechanics research, the principles of mechanical engineering are used to analyze and understand traumatic injuries like concussion and injuries to the spinal column and spinal cord. Because injuries occur over a fraction of a second, researchers at UBC study these events using specialized high speed photography, x-ray, and data collection methods. The same methods are used to study the effectiveness of safety devices like helmets. Join Mechanical Engineering Professor Peter Cripton as he provides an overview of this field and profiles several projects from his laboratory and puts them in the context of real-world injury prevention. He will address some questions like “do snowboard helmets really work?” and “how can we prevent broken necks in football and hockey?
THIS TALK IS PART OF UBC CELEBRATE RESEARCH WEEK
