Cosmm: An Undergraduate Laboratory For Engineering And Manufacturing Complex, Organic Shapes Using Nature As A Template
- Conference
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Chicago, Illinois
- Publication Date
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June 18, 2006
- Start Date
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June 18, 2006
- End Date
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June 21, 2006
- ISSN
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2153-5965
- Conference Session
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Biomedical
- Page Count
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11
- Page Numbers
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11.362.1 - 11.362.11
- DOI
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10.18260/1-2--885
- Permanent URL
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https://peer.asee.org/885
- Download Count
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540
Paper Authors
Lanny Griffin California Polytechnic State University
Lanny Griffin received his Ph.D. from University of California, Davis in Materials Science and Engineering and his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He is currently a Professor of Biomedical engineering at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. His research interests are in fatigue and fracture of calcified tissue, joint tribology, implant devices, failure analysis, finite element analysis, biomaterials, and composites.
Daniel Walsh California Polytechnic State University
Dan Walsh received his Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Materials Science and Engineering. He holds an M.S. and a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as well. He is currently an Professor and Chair of Biomedical Engineering and General Engineering and a Professor of Materials Engineering at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Prior to joining Cal Poly, he worked for General Dynamics and for Coulter Curtin Matheson. His research interests include joinability, microbiologically influenced corrosion, fundamental structure property interactions, formability, failure analysis, dynamic thermo-mechanical analysis, material interfaces, systems modeling, and the development of educational tools.
Robert Crockett California Polytechnic State University
Robert Crockett received his Ph.D. from University of Arizona in Materials Science and Engineering. He holds an M.B.A. from Pepperdine University and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from University of California, Berkeley. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Dr. Crockett is a specialist in technology development and commercialization of advanced materials and manufacturing processes. Prior to joining Cal Poly, he was founder and President of Xeragen, Inc., a San Luis Obispo-based biotechnology startup company. He has also served as an Assistant Professor at Milwaukee School of Engineering and was employed by McDonnell Douglas Space Systems Company, where he was a lead engineer and Principal Investigator on projects to develop technology evolution plans for the Space Station.
Abstract
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COSMM: An Undergraduate Laboratory for Engineering and Manufacturing Complex, Organic Shapes Using Nature as a Template
Introduction
The COSMM (Complex/Organic Shapes and Multiple Materials) Laboratory at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo provides undergraduate biomedical engineering students with the equipment to import geometric and mechanical property data from existing biological structures into a virtual environment where they can be analyzed, modified and output using layerwise manufacturing techniques. Input (touch probe, laser scanner, destructive scanner for optical images of internal geometry, CT/MRI/Ultrasound Imaging), Computer Manipulation (surfacing, feature extraction, freeform modification of 3D geometry using a haptic device, CAD manipulation and feature addition using a combination of surface, solid, and voxel modeling, and FEA analysis), and Output (Rapid Prototyping equipment including commercial systems and custom equipment capable of creating complex composites and gradient materials) are combined into an integrated system for analyzing and incorporating biological data into product designs. This laboratory supports sophomore-level introduction to design classes, junior-level CAD/modeling/simulation classes, a two-quarter senior design sequence, and multiple Senior Projects, Masters Theses, and industry-sponsored applied research projects. Recent laboratory projects have included creating soft tissue models for medical device development, producing a mechanically accurate spinal replica, creating medically accurate FEA and physical models of the human heart, and manufacturing complex gradient composite materials and scaffolds for tissue engineering.
Intended Outcomes
California Polytechnic State University has an earned reputation as a proponent of the hands-on, laboratory-based, learn-by-doing approach to education. We have also won a reputation as a college whose students are steeped in open-ended problems and underpinned by an understanding of design and the process of design. As part of our newly-created Biomedical Engineering Department, it was our goal to create a flexible, modular, expandable laboratory that would provide support across the entire spectrum from early design exposure for students to advanced industry-sponsored applied research for teams of faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates.
The rapid pace of advanced manufacturing technology has resulted in highly sophisticated equipment that is both available, accessible with reasonable acquisition and operation costs, robust, and simple enough to use such that the basics can be mastered within a few laboratory periods. What began as an ad-hoc collection of this type of equipment has now sharpened focus to become an integrated system for obtaining, analyzing, and incorporating biological data into product designs. In designing the COSMM laboratory, the goals were to help retain students, provide for close industrial participation, and to provide an integrative vehicle at a critical stage in the student’s educational career. The result provides a theme for learning, through hands-on experience, key aspects of Biology, Design, Communication, Manufacturing, Problem Solving,
Griffin, L., & Walsh, D., & Crockett, R. (2006, June), Cosmm: An Undergraduate Laboratory For Engineering And Manufacturing Complex, Organic Shapes Using Nature As A Template Paper presented at 2006 Annual Conference & Exposition, Chicago, Illinois. 10.18260/1-2--885
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