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 Will
Scott monitors a subject on a bicycle ergometer.
One of the unique skills of biological resources engineers is their ability to apply engineering
fundamentals to human -- and other biological -- systems. The Human Performance Laboratory
(0534) facilitates teaching and research that determines the biomechanical aspects of human performance
responses to environmental stimuli.
 Erica
Bicksler helps a subject exercising on a treadmill.
A number of experimental devices make the Human Performance Laboratory unique. These include
a whole-body plethysmograph, spirometer, and ergometer, pulse oximeter, pulmonary function test
unit, vision testing equipment, and a treadmill, as well as analytical equipment for measuring carbon
dioxide, oxygen and other gases exhaled from human subjects.
 The
Airflow Perturbation Device (APD) has been developed to measure respiratory
resistance.
Instrumentation that gives valuable teaching experience to undergraduate and graduate biomedical
engineers includes a bronchoscope, ultrasonic imaging device, magnetic and ultrasonic blood flow
meters, and a patient health monitoring system.
 Chris
Lausted breathes through the APD.
Research conducted in this laboratory ranges from determining basic data about how respiration,
endurance, mobility and visibility of humans are affected by protective face masks to developing
new, non-invasive methods for measuring respiratory resistance of humans.
The body plethysmograph is occupied by
Karen Coyne.
Brian Marcionnani calibrated this bicycle
ergometer.
 
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