Brent Lievers (@wblievers.bsky.social)

educator of future engineers | researcher of the biomechanical | lover of pie in all its many forms

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Fig 1.: (a) Oblique and (b) AP views of the proximal treemur showing the greater trunkanter and the felmoral head.

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We ended this year's series of #ENGR3566 guest presentations on a high note with Dr. @cfirminger from @UCalgary & @McCaigInstitute talking about his studies of tendon strain in cycling!

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The McMaster grad studies reference system needs to chill with their reminders.

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Happy #IronRing day to our @LUEngrCompSci students & congratulations to all those who will be taking part in the Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer later today.

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@thatdslrguy @EmmaNeupert @Jon_White2 @UoPSportScience @thatdslrguy & @rebeccaefbarone : I'm not able to share their slides, but I've linked the article that one student found which proved very popular with the class. It should hopefully give you a bit more info.

<https://t.co/Fkzn0UR0yF>

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Enjoyed having Dr. Chris Mills, Dr. @EmmaNeupert, & @Jon_White2 join us virtually from @UoPSportScience yesterday. Two great talks on seat design for F1 drivers & the effects of track bends/inclination on running biomechanics!

#ENGR3566

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Another great pair of guest lectures this morning in #ENGR3566 from Andrew Koshyk & Michael Kuczynski (@mkuczyns14) ! We learned about the fatigue behaviour of equine bone, the use of dynamic CT to understand thumb motion in OA, & how interdisciplinary biomedical research can be.

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Feel a little guilty eating such a friendly radish.

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Started my Friday by checking my spam folder for false positives and noticed I received some messages from some fairly famous folks, including Dr. Oz & Kate Winslet!

Nice try scammers. Katie would never call me “Dr. Lievers” and we normally message on WhatsApp.

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Grateful to Dr. @giacomo_valle, currently at @UChicago, for his incredible guest lecture this morning about the state of the art in providing sensory feedback in prosthetics. Amazing stuff!
#ENGR3566

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Registration Now Open!!!

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The boy and his mom have been busy prepping for a bake sale. Got to drop him & his baking off at school, but didn't get to sample his wares.

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Slow exam night at the gym. I have half the place for just my students. #ENGR1056

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@PresD_MSVU I have never visited the metro Schenectady area, so I am not sure how that affects my analysis, but did you see the beautiful 🐘 photo?

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I had an 8:30am class this term & tried using “attendance selfies” to incentivize showing up (i.e., when the animal pic comes up, snap a selfie, submit for marks).

There's was an obvious decline over the term, but I still averaged almost 84% of students! I'm calling that a win.

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Thanks to whoever set up this memorial in the atrium to the 14 women killed in the 1989 École Polytechnique attack.
#dec6 #rememberthe14

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As per tradition, p(r)izes were handed out today in #ENGR1501 to the top 3 teams in our “Ring-Pong 2023” engineering design challenge!

Always interested to see the order in which the pies get selected. This year it was:
🥇apple
🥈pecan
🥉cherry

Which would you choose first?

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This is an exception to the "clean the chalk boards before you leave" standard I wish more people would follow. #ClassroomChalkboardArt

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This is an exception to the "clean the chalk boards before you leave" standard I wish more people would follow. #ClassroomChalkboardArt

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@jboerckel Are you interested in standard graphs on x-y axes or something more sophisticated?

Do you have an examples of the data visualization you'd like to do, ones you'd rate as beautiful and effective?

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@ShahFA_ Maybe not *everyone* needed it, but EVH at least used his own invention.

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We covered an introduction to intellectual property this morning in #ENGR1501, which allowed me to share the greatest patent figure ever created with my students.

U.S. Patent 4,656,917 granted to Edward L. Van Halen.