Resources for Faculty

Bioengineering Design Studio

The Bioengineering Center's design and workshop facility is now fully functional and staffed by Mark Hooker. Faculty at Union or at other institutions may request assistance with the design or production of laboratory equipment for undergraduate teaching and research purposes. Funds are available for equipment and supplies. Please contact Mark directly (hookerm@union.edu) or Steve Rice (rices@union.edu) about this opportunity.

Visual Motion 

A two-dimensional visual motion detector based on biological principles

Adam Pallus and Leo J. Fleishman, Department of Biological Sciences and Center for Bioengineering and Computational Biology, Union College, Schenectady, NY 12308, USA.

Continue to the main article, take the visual tour or visit our downloads page to obtain the Matlab 7.0 source code and try your own motion analysis.

Some computers may have difficulty displaying the animations at full speed or in sync.  If you encounter this problem, you can try viewing a Powerpoint version of the animations which is available from the downloads page.

Butterfly Animation                     buttermot    

            

bird movie                        bird motion