The Mechanical Engineering Advisory Board, along with some of the more recently hired faculty, toured the Orthopaedic Biomechanics Laboratories in Fee Hall on Friday, April 18. The tour enabled them to get a closer look at some of the joint-discipline research projects being worked on under the supervision of Dr. Roger Haut and to explain the students' role as mechanical engineers. A total of 18 projects were presented with a main theme of Post-traumatic osteoarthritis.

Eric G. Meyer, a mechanical engineering doctoral candidate who presented some of his research at the event, explained that "the methods range from cadaver, to animal, to explant models of the disease."

The graduate students work closely with researchers in many other fields outside of engineering including Kinesiology, Physical Therapy and Anthropology, Physiology, Osteopathic and Veterinary Medicine, and Radiology. For more information on the projects presented, please visit the Orthopaedic Biomechanics Laboratories website at www.obl.msu.edu.