Jianguo Zhao receives NSF award to investigate shape-morphing technology for robotics
Applications for such robots include search and rescue, surveillance and environmental monitoring.
Applications for such robots include search and rescue, surveillance and environmental monitoring.
The team presented their project at the BIOMOD Jamboree, an international stage where they were exposed to new technologies, and inspired by fellow scientists in the biomolecular engineering field.
The Munsky group of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and their collaborators at Vanderbilt University recently published new advances to predictive biological models for gene regulation in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The Department of Mechanical Engineering is launching four week-long, project-based summer learning programs for middle and high school students.
The researchers will continue developing their prototype and prepare it for demonstration at the final phase of the competition at the NASA Glenn Research Center in October.
The U.S. Department of Energy awarded Walajabad Sampath with the Small Innovative Project in Solar (SIPS) award to investigate improved solar energy efficiency without substantially increasing manufacturing costs.
Researchers strategized a method to utilize laser-generated sparks to further advance the field of laser ignition of engines.
Daniel Olsen’s lab group tested Siemens technology designed to minimize fuel consumption and emissions by reconfiguring engine systems.
Jason Quinn, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, leverages his expertise in sustainability for several multi-million dollar projects from the Department of Energy and U.S. Department of Agriculture.
A group of 12 researchers, including mechanical engineering professor Chris Weinberger, demonstrated that a new class of materials is capable of both shape memory properties, as well as superelasticity.