Research Assistant - College of Engineering - Department of Mechanical Engineering

Carnegie Mellon University•Pittsburgh, PA

About The Position

Carnegie Mellon University is a private, global research university that stands among the world’s most renowned education institutions. With ground-breaking brain science, path-breaking performances, creative start-ups, big data, big ambitions, hands-on learning, and a whole lot of robots, CMU doesn’t imagine the future, we invent it. If you’re passionate about joining a community that challenges the curious to deliver work that matters, your journey starts here! Innovation. Interdisciplinary collaboration. Complex problem solving. In Carnegie Mellon University’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, faculty members, researchers, and students are revolutionizing focus areas in advanced manufacturing, bioengineering, computational engineering, energy and the environment, product design, and robotics. In addition, they are using their expertise in interdisciplinary research centers across the university. Carnegie Mellon University’s department of Mechanical Engineering is searching for a Research Assistant to join their team. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who thrives in an interesting and challenging work environment. You will contribute to the department by providing support by running neurophysiology experiments, analyzing data, developing and testing computational models, writing papers and such other tasks that are assigned to you

Requirements

Master’s degree in Neuroscience, Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or Electrical Engineering
Successful background check

Responsibilities

Set up and operate instruments for measuring electromyography and inertial measurement data
Write and use custom software in Matlab to analyze EMG and IMU data
Write summary reports of experiments and analysis in form of primary journal articles