Odessa, Texas/March 19, 2022-The University of Texas of the Permian Basin has a new multi-million-dollar state-of-the-art biomechanics lab located in the D. Kirk Edwards Human Performance Center. The lab allows students to learn about bodies in motion, and help student-atheletes who are injured see how their injuries are healing.
(Alanna Dennison, Academic Chair-Department of Human Performance-UT Permian Basin)
The software used in the UTPB bio-mechanics lab is the same software used in the development of FORTNITE gaming animation.
(Alanna Dennison, Academic Chair-Department of Human Performance-UT Permian Basin)
Students in anatomy classes can see body movement in a simple wireframe model in a 3D space.
(Alanna Dennison, Academic Chair-Department of Human Performance-UT Permian Basin)
UTPB has the opportunity through the bio-mechanics lab to bring in high school atheletes, recreational athletes from all over the region to look at movement quality and help prevent injuries.
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