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Lab Director



Steven K. Charles

Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Neuroscience
PhD Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, 2008
Email: skcharles@byu.edu
Phone: 801-422-7369
Office: 350J EB

Graduate Students


Ian Syndergaard

April 04, 2020 01:19 PM
PhD student in Mechanical Engineering
Focus: Essential Tremor

Daniel Free

April 04, 2020 02:16 PM
PhD student in Mechanical Engineering
Focus: Essential Tremor

Nolan Howes

July 13, 2022 03:24 PM
Graduate Student in Mechanical Engineering
Focus: Essential Tremor

Undergraduate Students



Adam Reinsch

June 16, 2022 03:35 PM
Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering
Focus: Essential Tremor

Alex Edwards

June 16, 2022 03:52 PM
Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering
Focus: Essential Tremor

Noah Francom

July 13, 2022 03:19 PM
Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering
Focus: Essential Tremor

Tasia Meaders

July 21, 2022 04:04 PM
Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering
Focus: Essential Tremor

Landon Beutler

August 29, 2022 03:35 PM
Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering
Focus: Essential Tremor

Timothy Baird

August 29, 2022 05:58 PM
Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering
Focus: Lab Instrumentation

Samantha Nelson

September 20, 2022 11:40 AM
Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering
Focus: Wrist Forces and Torques during Activities of Daily Living

Jacob Cox

October 19, 2022 06:20 PM
Undergraduate student in Mechanical Engineering
Focus: Inverse Kinematics

Steven Zinn

January 20, 2023 02:21 PM
Undergraduate Student in Neuroscience
Focus: Essential Tremor

Stephen Jackson

March 17, 2023 01:15 PM
Undergraduate Student in Neuroscience
Focus: A Quantitative Motor Assessment Linked to Underlying Damage in Traumatic Brain Injury

Melissa Farmer

March 17, 2023 01:16 PM
Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering
Focus: Wrist Forces and Torques during Activities of Daily Living

Former Graduate Students

Bryce DeFigueiredo

July 21, 2022 07:50 AM
Masters Student in Mechanical Engineering
Focus: Essential Tremor

Will Drake

November 10, 2020 02:15 PM
MS Mechanical Engineering, 2013
Thesis: Passive stiffness of coupled wrist and forearm rotations
Currently Product Engineer at Webb Wheel Products, Cullman, AL

Dan Seegmiller

November 10, 2020 02:12 PM
MS Mechanical Engineering, 2013
Thesis: The effects of wrist orthoses on the stiffness of wrist rotations
Currently R&D Mechanical Engineer at Sandia National Laboritories, Albuquerque, NM

Allan Peaden

November 10, 2020 02:10 PM
MS Mechanical Engineering, 2013
Thesis: Dynamics and control of wrist and forearm rotations
Currently Engineer at Novatek, Provo, UT

Layne Salmond

November 10, 2020 02:09 PM
MS Mechanical Engineering, 2014
Thesis: Characterization of speed and smoothness in wrist rotations
Currently Process Development Engineer at Applied Medical, CA

Daniel Geiger

November 10, 2020 02:05 PM
MS Mechanical Engineering, 2014
Thesis: Characterization of Essential Tremor

Erika Baker

November 10, 2020 02:03 PM
Focus: Characterization of Essential Tremor

Clay Kincaid

November 10, 2020 02:01 PM
MS Mechanical Engineering, 2016
Thesis: The Feasibility of Using a Markerless Motion Capture Sensor (Leap Motion™ Controller) for Quantitative Motor Assessment Intended for a Clinical Setting

Andrew Davidson

November 10, 2020 01:57 PM
MS Mechanical Engineering, 2016
Thesis: Fundamental Principles of Tremor Propagation in the Upper Limb

Adam Pigg

November 10, 2020 01:54 PM
MS Mechanical Engineering, 2017
Thesis: Distribution of Essential Tremor in the Degrees of Freedom of the Upper Limb
Currently pursuing an MBA at BYU

Thomas Corie

November 10, 2020 01:48 PM
MS Mechanical Engineering, 2018
Thesis: Simulated Tremor Propagation in the Upper Limb: From Muscle Activity to Joint Displacement

Brendon Allen

November 10, 2020 01:47 PM
MS Mechanical Engineering, 2018
Thesis: Effect of Gyroscope Parameters on Gyroscopic Tremor Suppression in a Single Degree of Freedom
Currently PhD student at the University of Florida

Paula Johnson

November 05, 2020 07:55 PM
PhD Neuroscience 2019

Thesis: A Quantitative Motor Assessment Linked to Underlying Damage in Traumatic Brain Injury

David Standring

November 05, 2020 07:49 PM
MS Mechanical Engineering 2019
Thesis: Distribution of Tremorogenic Activity among the Major Superficial Muscles of the Upper Limb in Subjects with Essential Tremor

Sydney Ward

April 04, 2020 03:42 PM
MS student in Mechanical Engineering
Focus: Essential Tremor

Blake Harper

April 04, 2020 03:19 PM
MS student in Mechanical Engineering
Focus: Essential Tremor

Paul Curtis

April 04, 2020 02:33 PM
MS student in Mechanical Engineering
Focus: Essential Tremor

Former Undergraduate Students

Jason Finch

November 08, 2022 08:23 PM
Undergraduate student in Mechanical Engineering
Focus: Essential Tremor

Samuel Acuna

July 21, 2022 04:01 PM
Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering
Focus: Essential Tremor

Will Anderton

July 21, 2022 03:57 PM
Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering
Focus: Essential Tremor

Jenny Pate

July 21, 2022 03:53 PM
Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering
Focus: Essential Tremor

Josh Hernandez

July 21, 2022 03:50 PM
Undergraduate Student in Neuroscience
Focus: Essential Tremor

Jake Hipps

July 21, 2022 03:47 PM
Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering
Focus: Essential Tremor

Dilip Malla

July 21, 2022 03:45 PM
Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering
Focus: Essential Tremor

Alex Hutchings

July 21, 2022 03:43 PM
Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering
Focus: Essential Tremor

Jacob Robinson

July 21, 2022 03:41 PM
Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering
Focus: Essential Tremor

Nathan Doyle

July 21, 2022 03:39 PM
Undergraduate Student in Neuroscience
Focus: Essential Tremor

Danny Smith

July 21, 2022 03:34 PM
Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering
Focus: Essential Tremor

Jacob Jackson

July 21, 2022 08:09 AM
Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering
Focus: Essential Tremor

Natalie Siddoway

July 21, 2022 08:06 AM
Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering
Focus: Essential Tremor

Garrett Dorman

July 21, 2022 08:04 AM
Undergraduate Student in Neuroscience
Focus: Essential Tremor

Nicholas Whipple

July 21, 2022 08:00 AM
Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering
Focus: Essential Tremor

Jason Skouson

July 21, 2022 07:58 AM
Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering
Focus: Essential Tremor

Daniel Bodily

July 21, 2022 07:56 AM
Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering
Focus: Essential Tremor

Nathan Stanford

July 21, 2022 07:54 AM
Undergraduate Student in Neuroscience
Focus: Essential Tremor

Whitney Smith Poffenbary

July 21, 2022 07:48 AM
Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering
Focus: Essential Tremor

Taylor Dickinson

July 21, 2022 07:30 AM
Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering
Focus: Essential Tremor

Chris Adair

July 20, 2022 08:11 PM
Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering
Focus: Essential Tremor

Ryan DeFigueiredo

July 20, 2022 08:08 PM
Undergraduate Student in Neuroscience
Focus: Essential Tremor

Ryan Clark

July 20, 2022 08:06 PM
Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering
Focus: Essential Tremor

Austin Vaterlaus

July 20, 2022 08:02 PM
Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering
Focus: Essential Tremor

Tim Shoop

July 20, 2022 08:00 PM
Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering
Focus: Essential Tremor

Michael Eyler

July 20, 2022 07:58 PM
Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering
Focus: Essential Tremor

Josh Tsai

July 20, 2022 07:56 PM
Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering
Focus: Essential Tremor

Adam Stringham

July 20, 2022 07:55 PM
Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering
Focus: Essential Tremor

Sadie Cutler

July 20, 2022 07:31 PM
Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering
Focus: Essential Tremor

Joseph Bonham

July 20, 2022 07:17 PM
Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering
Focus: Essential Tremor

Madeline Ward

July 19, 2022 05:16 PM
Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering
Focus: Essential Tremor

Nic Lush

July 19, 2022 05:13 PM
Undergraduate student in Mechanical Engineering
Focus: Traumatic Brain Injury

Christian Metzner

June 16, 2022 02:19 PM
Undergraduate student in Neuroscience
Focus: Essential Tremor

Eric Stone

November 10, 2020 02:50 PM
Undergraduate student in Mechanical Engineering
Focus: Inverse Kinematics and Soft-tissue Artifact Compensation
Currently pursuing PhD degree in Bioengineering at the University of Utah

Brenna Hislop

April 04, 2020 04:16 PM
Undergraduate student in Mechanical Engineering
Focus: Essential Tremor

Spencer Baker

April 04, 2020 04:07 PM
Undergraduate student in Mechanical Engineering
Focus: Essential Tremor

Jason Huang

April 04, 2020 04:04 PM
Undergraduate student in Mechanical Engineering
Focus: Essential Tremor

Ryan Smith

April 04, 2020 04:01 PM
Undergraduate student in Mechanical Engineering
Focus: Essential Tremor

Parker King

April 04, 2020 03:58 PM
Undergraduate student in Mechanical Engineering
Focus: Essential Tremor

Lorin Costley

April 04, 2020 03:55 PM
Undergraduate student in Mechanical Engineering
Focus: Lab equipment

Zach Bons

April 04, 2020 03:54 PM
Undergraduate student in Mechanical Engineering
Focus: Soft-tissue artifact compensation for improving inverse kinematics

Scott Tew

April 04, 2020 03:52 PM
Undergraduate student in Mechanical Engineering
Focus: Wrist kinematics during activities of daily living