Dr. Kotaro Sasaki earned his B.S. in Biophysical Engineering from Osaka University, Japan, and his M.A. in Kinesiology and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin. He worked as a post-doctoral fellow and as a research associate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, before joining the faculty of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering at Boise State University in 2008. His research interest is computational biomechanical analyses of human motor activities.
Articles
Individual Muscle Contributions to the Axial Knee Joint Contact Force during Normal Walking (with Richard R. Neptune), Journal of Biomechanics (2010)
Muscles are significant contributors to the high joint forces developed in the knee during human...
Muscle Contributions to the Tibiofemoral Joint Contact Force During Running, Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation (2010)
Running is typically performed at faster speeds than walking, and requires more muscular efforts. Because...
The Relationships between Muscle, External, Internal and Joint Mechanical Work During Normal Walking (with Richard R. Neptune and Steven A. Kautz), Journal of Experimental Biology (2009)
Muscle mechanical work is an important biomechanical quantity in human movement analyses and has been...
Dissertation
Analysis of Potential Muscular Determinants of the Preferred Walk-Run Transition Speed in Human Gait (2004)
The spontaneous transition from walking to running as walking speed increases is an intriguing neuromotor...
Presentations & Conference Proceedings
How Can We Help Faculty Balance Between Teaching and Scholarly Activities? (with Cheryl Schrader, Seung Youn Chyung, William L. Hughes, Teresa Cole, and John N. Chiasson), 118th ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, June 26-29, 2011, Vancouver, BC, Canada (2011)
Boise State University (BSU), which is among the fastest growing institutions of higher education in...