Stories Tagged with "assistive technologies"

2009 - 2 stories

2009

NJIT To Host Major Biomedical Engineering Showcase and Career Fair

February 18, 2009

More than 300 people and 30 companies are expected to attend the sixth annual biomedical engineering showcase and career fair on March 13, 2009 at NJIT. The annual event, to be held from 7:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. in NJIT’s Campus Center, unites industry professionals and academics interested in the applied-life sciences. >>

Tagged: seminar, campus center, judith sheft, biomedical engineering, science, career fair, assistive technologies, biotechnology, showcase, new jersey commission on spinal cord research, applied life sciences, white rose health innovation partnership, health

NEC Foundation of America Awards Grant to NJIT's Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Technology for Children with Orthopedic Disabilities

January 23, 2009

NEC Foundation of America has awarded NJIT a $32,000 grant to support the dissemination and use of therapeutic video games to serve children with severe sensory and motor disabilities. >>

Tagged: biomedical engineering, richard foulds, assistive technologies, improvement of bone density in non-ambulatory children, modeling and remediation of spasticity, child-machine interfaces for wheelchair-mounted robots, pre-college exposure to rehabilitation engineering, rehabilitation engineering, robot-assisted therapy, graduate education in rehabilitation engineering, nec foundation of america, nec financial services llc, herschel salan, hands-up video game software, us department of education’s national institute on disability and rehabilitation research, rehabilitation engineering research center on technology for children with orthopedic disabilities, neuro-plasticity, therapeutic video games