A laboratory in Pittsburgh’s Bakery Square is poised to make the next breakthrough in wheelchairs, a mostly stagnant industry with huge quality of life implications for millions of disabled Americans.

The founder of Human Engineering Research Laboratories at the University of Pittsburgh, Cooper holds 25 U.S. patents on products ranging from a robotic arm that can be attached to wheelchairs to help ...

Rory A. Cooper is the founding director of the Human Engineering Research Laboratories, a joint center of the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). He is a VA ...

As a University of Dayton School of Engineering student, you won't just learn about engineering in the classroom — you'll get the chance to experience it firsthand. Our state-of-the-art facilities ...