Book list

Books at my UNL office:
Standard Handbook of Biomedical Engineering and Design (Kutz)
Materials Selection in Mechanical Design (Ashby)
Biomaterials Science (Rattner)
Design of Biomedical Devices and Systems (King)
Medical Instrumentation (Webster)
Mechanism Design (Erdman)
Kinematics and Linkage Design (Hall)
Advanced Mechanism Design (Sandor)
and much more…

Books at the UNMC lab:
Machine Design (Norton)
Compliant Mechanisms (Howell)
Engineering Optimization (Rao)
Mechanism Design (Tsai)
Robots and Screw Theory (Davidson)
Mechanisms and Mechanical Movements (Jones)
Engineering Approaches to Mechanical and Robotic Design for Minimally Invasive Surgeries (Faraz)
Engineering Design (Dieter)

I am thinking of buying:
Freedom in Machinery, Jack Phillips
Geometric Design of Linkages, McCarthy
Anyone have a hankering for either of these as reference materials in the lab?
Or any other reference materials for that matter?

Kinematics of paper pop-up folding

For my students:
There is a PDF in the "shared" folder on our Blackboard content collection group starting with "DETC..." I think of this paper as "linkages for babies." It's all about how to model paper pop-ups as mechanisms. It's a very visually understandable way to dip your toes into the great swimming pool of linkage kinematics. Students, have a read, and post your comments and questions. In particular, I would like your suggestions on how, as the authors imply, this material might be applied to devices for minimally invasive surgery.