Incorporating Motion Capture Technology in Undergraduate Engineering Dynamics

I am a senior Biomedical Engineering major and have been working at the Human Motion Biomechanics Lab at Cal Poly for the past two years. As a research assistant I work on several projects including calculating knee contact forces during different types of exercise and creating educational modules that incorporate our motion tracking technology in various classes. The classes range from kinesiology to dynamics to biomechanics classes. The labs that we create help enhance the student’s experience in the class with a real life application while allowing them to use state of the art technology.