Mending hearts

FORT COLLINS — Colorado State University’s Lakshmi Prasad Dasi wants to find a solution.

His work focuses on the human heart, something that most consider strictly biological in nature, but as a mechanical engineer, Dasi believes that the heart is a mechanical organ, and applying his field of study can help find solutions to the problems that plague one of the most crucial organs in the body.

A graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay, India, and Georgia Institute of Technology, Dasi came to CSU in 2009 to take a position as an assistant professor of mechanical engineering. He has…