Using the wearer’s natural motion for power, engineers at Santa Clara University have created a wearable micropump can precisely deliver or extract fluids without electricity.
An assistant professor of mechanical engineering, Michael Abbott is designing assistive technologies using 3D printing, robotics, and AI to help people with disabilities live more independently.
‘It is especially important, now more than ever, to consider the moral weight of the technology we create and really ask ourselves what we hope to gain.’
A’Zhae Turay ’26 arrived at Santa Clara with one focus: engineering. What he discovered was a community that encouraged him to pursue all his passions.
Six Santa Clara student fellows presented interdisciplinary research at this year’s Center for the Arts and Humanities showcase, including projects on music therapy and augmented-reality based storytelling.
Funded in part by a $175 million gift from Mark and Mary Stevens, it will be the first new medical school in the San Francisco Bay Area in more than a century.
