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Carolyn Sparrey
Associate Professor, Graduate Student Supervisor
Mechatronic Systems Engineering
Areas of interest
Biomechanics
Education
- Postdoctorate, University of California at San Francisco, United States, 2010
- Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, United States, 2008
- M.A.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, University of British Columbia, Canada, 2004
- B.A.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada, 2001
Research Interests
- Injury Biomechanics
- Computational models of injury
- Tissue mechanics and materials
Teaching Interests
- Biomechanics
- Kinematics and Dynamics
- Experimental and Research Methods
Recently Taught Courses
- MSE 222: Kinematics and Dynamics of Rigid Bodies and Mechanisms
- MSE 420/720: Introduction to Biomechanical Engineering
- MSE 312: Mechatronics Design II
- MSE 410: Capstone Design
- MSE 895: Engineering Research Methodology
Selected Recent Publications
- Dr. Shervin Jannesar, Dr. Ernesto Salegio, Dr. Michael S. Beattie, Dr. Jacqueline C. Bresnahan, and Prof. Carolyn J. Sparrey.Journal of Neurotrauma.ahead of print http://doi.org/10.1089/neu.2019.6840
- Merry K, MacPherson M, Macdonald E, Ryan M, Park EJ, Sparrey CJ. Differentiating Sitting, Standing, and Walking Through Regional Plantar Pressure Characteristics. Journal of Biomechanical Engineering. 2020 Apr 1;142(4). https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4045049
- Thomas L, Borisoff J, Sparrey CJ. Manual wheelchair downhill stability: an analysis of factors affecting tip probability. Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation. 2018 Dec 1;15(1):95. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12984-018-0450-3
- Jannesar S, Allen M, Mills S, Gibbons A, Bresnahan JC, Salegio EA, Sparrey CJ. Compressive mechanical characterization of non-human primate spinal cord white matter. Acta biomaterialia. 2018 Jul 1;74:260-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actbio.2018.05.002
- Carolyn J. Sparrey, Ernesto A. Salegio, William Camisa, Horace Tam, Michael S. Beattie, and Jacqueline C. Bresnahan.Journal of Neurotrauma.Jun 2016.1136-1149. http://doi.org/10.1089/neu.2015.3974