(TNS) — A device originally designed by Northwestern University engineers to record progress in stroke patients has been repurposed to study the effects of COVID-19 as it runs its course through the ...

If user interfaces on a consumer electronic are unclear, it results in frustration and wasted time. In medical device design, if user interfaces are unclear, results could be far more serious. During ...

In the medical device industry, usability plays a critical role in ensuring the safety and effectiveness of highly complex medical products. The IEC 62366-1:2015 standard, which focuses on the ...

Researchers design an athletic shoe replacement indicator in a lab at the Ferland Engineering Education and Design Center at the University of Maine. Credit: Courtesy of the University of Maine via ...

Technology is fundamental to modern society’s existence. It helps people interact and collaborate, creates efficiencies, and helps solve complex problems—a statement that especially rings true in the ...

This certificate program is designed to prepare biomedical engineers to understand the environment into which their innovations will be placed and the users who will interact with them. Professionals ...

Medical devices—whether compact, in-home tools like blood pressure monitors or large, sophisticated diagnostic systems used in hospitals and laboratories—are increasingly designed for global markets.

Powerful groups of mostly men are making major decisions about biology and bodies they know little about. Embryos in deep freeze that may never be used are just the latest example. As a professor of ...

You can leave comments or questions for each webinar on the respective page where the video is show or on this page for the series as a whole. This session discusses how standards and the Arm ...

ORONO, Maine — University of Maine students are designing a device to help runners determine when their athletic shoes should be replaced to help prevent injuries like stress fractures, shin splints ...