Goulbourne earns NSF award to research heart stent sensors

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Mathematics and Statistics  Thu, 09/04/2008 - 22:00

(Virginia Tech) Innovative work on a new type of heart stent sensor is earning Nakhiah Goulbourne, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech, a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award of $400,000.

The focus of Goulbourne's research is the development of specific models and experiments to describe what happens to a human artery equipped with a stent that has a unique type of in situ polymer strain-sensing device.

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