Dr. Mike Wirthlin, Dr. Jeff Goeders, and a team of ECEn students recently returned from Los Alamos National Laboratories in New Mexico where they tested circuits they have been developing. The purpose of their study is to develop circuits that can tolerate radiation. The results of their experiments will soon be submitted for publishing.

Current microfluidics technology suffers from the slow and error-prone process used to create the chips within a cleanroom. Dr. Greg Nordin, a professor in the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department at Brigham Young University, has spent thirty years developing new technologies based on micro- and nanofabrication processes. He loves the challenge of creating new capabilities to benefit our everyday lives. For the past fifteen years he has focused on inventing devices for health-related diagnostics and research, recently culminating in creating a 3D printer and related new materials specifically designed to fabricate medical diagnostic laboratories on tiny chips. This new 3D printer allows engineers to create chips for microfluidics in a fraction of the time, reliably, safely, and more consistently than ever before. Watch as Dr. Nordin explains this new technology here on TEDxBYU.