BIOMECHANICAL ENGINEERING

BIOMECHANICAL ENGINEERING
FOR TISSUE, NEURAL AND MOVEMENT MECHANICS, MECHATRONICS AND ROBOTICS
Full Professors:
Bart Koopman (BME Chair)
Herman van der Kooij (UT/TUD)
Bart Verkerke (RUG/UT)
Nico Verdonschot (RUN/UT)
Hans Rietman (RRD/UT)
Jan Grandjean (MST/UT)
Teaching Staff:
Edwin van Asseldonk
Dorien van de Belt
Edsko Hekman
Jasper Homminga
Jeroen Rouwkema
Alfred Schouten
Arno Stienen
Total:
6 Full Professors
1 Associate Professor
6 Assistant Professors
7 Research Staff
18 PhD Candidates
5 Support Staff
~40 New MSc Students/Year
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Design & Development
Tumor
Fractures
Scoliosis
Correction
Rehabilitation
Neurology
Orthopedics
Analysis & Simulation
NeuroMusculoSkeletal
Models
Rehabilitation
Robotics
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Tissue Mechanics
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Prof.dr.ir. Nico Verdonschot (RUN/UT)
Prof.dr. Jan Grandjean (MST/UT)
Dr.ir. Jeroen Rouwkema (UT)
Dr.ir. Jasper Homminga (UT)
• What happens, when you apply
stress and strain muscular and
skeletal tissue?
• Can we use this mechanical
loading to improve the quality of
our artificial tissues?
• Can we design better artificial
heart valves?
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Neural Mechanics
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Prof.dr.ir. Herman van der Kooij (UT/TUD)
Prof.dr. Jules Dewald (NU/TUD/UT)
Dr.ir. Edwin van Asseldonk (UT)
Dr.ir. Arno Stienen (UT/NU)
Dr.ir. Alfred Schouten (TUD/UT/NU)
• How do we teach people to move
(again)?
• Can we support movement
learning using robotics?
• Can we let a paraplegic walk
again?
• Can you learn how to play the
piano using an exoskeleton?
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Movement Mechanics
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Prof.dr.ir. Bart Koopman (UT)
Prof.dr.ir. Bart Verkerke (UT)
Prof.dr. Hans Rietman (UT)
Ir. Edsko Hekman
• How do you use your muscles
during standing, walking or
running?
• Can you correct for scoliosis
using a dynamic, non-fusion
implant?
• How do you determine the motion
intention in men with Duchenne?
• In what way can you support the
elderly during cycling?
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BIOMECHANICAL ENGINEERING - CONCLUSION
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• Large, enjoyable group with lots of interaction and direct contact with all
staff and students, coming from multiple countries and backgrounds
• A wide range of possible assignments :
• Any combination of design, modeling and/or experimentation
• From pure theoretical (modeling) to fully practical (patients, industry)
• Strong collaborations with the most important groups in the world:
• Many groups in the Netherlands (TUD, RUG, RRD, etc.)
• MIT (USA), NU (USA), ETH (CH), ICL (GB), etc.
(Useful for internships… )
• Interested?
• Contact Prof. Bart Koopman to discuss entering one of our MSc
programs in Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Technology, Systems
and Control (3TU), or Industrial Design Engineering.
• But feel free to contact whoever you want for more details!

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