Undergraduate research associates are welcome to join the Lu Research Lab of Mechanics of Bio-Integrated Flexible Electronics in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics. We are looking for motivated, responsible young engineers to establish a brand new experimental lab for fabrication, testing and modeling of bio-integrated soft electronics. High quality flexible electronics in forms that can conform with the soft, curvilinear and time-dynamic surfaces of the human body will create new opportunities for studying disease states, improving surgical procedures, monitoring health/wellness, establishing human-machine interfaces and many others. Our lab will be built as a test-bed of mechanical properties and bio-integration of the tissue-like electronics. Theoretical and numerical modelings seek for fundamental understandings of the deformation and failure of the soft electronic system and also provide guidelines for the device design and optimization. Students joining this project will obtain trainings in planning and setting up a research lab, purchasing research equipment and tools, performing finite element analysis on multi-scale integrated soft circuits. Only credits can be granted for this project in the fall 2011 semester. But highly qualified research associates can be paid for future projects.
Highly motivated UT juniors and seniors who are
1. interested in academic research;
2. enthusiastic about frontier technologies;
3. seeking for mechanics and micro-fabrication trainings.
Present to end of fall 2011 semester.
10 hours research work each week including lab work and modeling work.
Weekly meeting with the PI to discuss progress and problems.
