Research Makes A Better World
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Ai for Heart Surgery
Saving Lives With 3D Heart Simulations
Biomedical engineers are creating 3D simulations of heart-valve replacements that show doctors exactly what will happen before they operate. The tool allows surgeons to refine their plan and save the lives of people with the most complicated or highest-risk cases.
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Faster First Response
Preventing Drowning
Civil engineers have created a system that watches a dangerous stretch of river in Columbus, Georgia. With a computer model, cameras, and AI, it alerts first-responders before people are swept away by the current.
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A Cleaner World
Keeping Solar Panel Production in America
Materials scientists have created a new kind of solar panel without silicon. The material they use is cheaper to produce and plentiful in the U.S. That will make it easier to build the panels here at home and get more people using renewable energy.
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Wearable Robots to Help People Move
In Aaron Young’s lab, researchers are designing robotic limbs and futuristic exoskeletons to help people get around more easily in their everyday lives.
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Safer Neighborhoods
Taming Coastal Flooding
With sea levels rising and land sinking, the risk of flooding is only getting worse for many coastal communities. Civil engineers are helping cities and counties keep the waters at bay by picking the right kinds of flood-control strategies and putting them in the right places. And they’ve started in Georgia’s oldest city.
Student Innovation
Better Cancer Screening – at Home
Ph.D. student Gianna Slusher has patented a unique wall-mounted device and companion smartphone app to make it easier for women to check themselves for breast cancer. It’s noninvasive, radiation-free, and much more comfortable than traditional mammograms.
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Personalized Medicine
3D Printed Heart Valves
The only treatment for millions of people with heart valve disease is surgery to repair or replace the faulty valve. It’s often only a temporary fix. Biomedical engineers are taking a new approach that regenerates rather than replaces. They can 3D-print a heart valve that — once implanted — is eventually absorbed by the body and replaced with new, functioning tissue.
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Go Deeper
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