Brittany Coats is an American biomechanical engineer whose research is centered on head injuries, especially in infants. She is a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Utah, and the director of the Utah Head Trauma Lab.

Education and career

Coats majored in mechanical engineering at the University of Utah, graduating in 2000. She completed a Ph.D. in bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania in 2007, supervised by

Susan Margulies Susan Margulies is an American engineer and assistant director of the U.S. National Science Foundation, heading the Directorate for Engineering. She is also the Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Injury Biomechanics and Professor in the ...

, before returning to the University of Utah as a faculty member.

Recognition

In 2021, Coats was elected as an ASME Fellow.

References

External links

Utah Head Trauma Lab
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