CaraÌýWelker

  • Assistant Professor
  • MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Woman smiling with foliage in the background
Cara Gonzalez Welker is an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering department, with additional affiliate appointments in the Biomedical Engineering and Robotics programs. The mission of her research group is to develop and characterize assistive devices that augment human movement, drawing on interdisciplinary techniques from biomechanics, robotics, and design. She is also interested in how design principles useful for developing assistive devices can be applied to foster resiliency in graduate education.Ìý
Ìý
Dr. Welker was a recipient of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, which supported graduate student mentorship and K-12 outreach efforts, in addition to research goals to better understand sensorimotor interaction in individuals with lower-limb amputation. She is currently on the Medical and Research Advisory Board of So Every BODY Can Move, a grassroots community initiative that seeks to expand insurance coverage for recreational prostheses and orthoses. She has participated in several projects with different communities in South America, living and working in Montero, Bolivia for a year and offering on a bilingual summer school course in Bogotá, Colombia in 2022 through Universidad de los Andes. Ìý ÌýÌý
Ìý

Education

  • PhD in Bioengineering, Stanford University
  • MS in Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
  • BE in Biomedical and Chemical Engineering, Vanderbilt University


Ìý