Event Date
Robert Scheidt, PhD
Program Director, Directorate of Engineering
National Science Foundation
ABSTRACT
This presentation will focus on funding opportunities offered by the Division of Civil, Mechanical & Manufacturing Innovation within the disciplinary programs and through crosscutting initiatives across the National Science Foundation. The talk will describe opportunities that are relevant to the robotics, dynamics and controls, human-machine interaction, and neurorehabilitation communities, with focus on the Mind, Machine, and Motor Nexus (M3X) program.
BIO
Dr. Robert Scheidt, PhD. is Program Director in the Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation Division of the Engineering Directorate. He directs the Mind, Machine and Motor Nexus (M3X) program, is co-director for the Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier (FW-HTF) program; and services the National Robotics Initiative (NRI 2.0). Dr. Scheidt earned his BS from Marquette University in Electrical Engineering (1989), and his MS and PhD degrees from Northwestern University in Biomedical Engineering (1992 and 1999, respectively). He performed post-doctoral research at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago.
Before taking his faculty position at MU in 2000, Robert served as systems engineer at Baxter Healthcare (Fenwall Division) and as a Senior Research Scientist at Medical Research Labs, Inc. Robert's academic research uses robotic tools and simple virtual reality systems to probe how the human nervous system uses sensory information to optimize movements and interactions with the physical environment. His work seeks to acquire knowledge needed to develop technologies, training strategies and therapeutic interventions for facilitating motor learning in healthy individuals and for promoting rehabilitation in patients with neuromotor injury or neurodevelopmental disorders. He is also focused on the improvement of STEM education in undergraduate as well as K-8 settings. Robert is on detail to NSF from the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Marquette University and the Medical College of Wisconsin (Milwaukee, WI), where he has been a Professor of Biomedical Engineering since 2013. He has served the department as the Director of Graduate Studies for the Masters of Engineering Program. He also holds an adjunct research faculty position within the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
Faculty host: Carolynn Patten, PhD, Professor, Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation