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Article ItemAlan Asbeck receives NSF CAREER award to create new type of lower-body exoskeleton , article
Asbeck, an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and his team will study the way people walk and adapt to exoskeleton assistance.
Date: May 19, 2022 -
Article ItemClass of 2022: Gwyneth Schloer tackles five degrees in five years , article
Gwyneth Schloer is is receiving undergraduate degrees in mechanical engineering, economics, and Spanish. She is working toward two graduate degrees as well, while also working for Northrup Grumman.
Date: May 09, 2022 -
Article ItemShima Shahab receives NSF CAREER Award to develop innovative methods for delivering ultrasound treatments , article
Shahab, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, has worked with her team to develop focused ultrasound as an effective tool for treating issues within the brain.
Date: Mar 21, 2022 -
Article ItemPinhas Ben-Tzvi named fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers , article
Ben-Tzvi is the founding director of the Robotics and Mechatronics Lab in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and focuses on fundamental and applied research in robotics, mechatronics, and controls.
Date: Mar 15, 2022 -
Article ItemEquity, mentoring, Legos, and Googling: Student Joseph O’Such brings an eclectic worldview to campus with help from scholarships , article
O’Such spent a lot of his childhood with his family in Lane Stadium, shouting “Hokie hi” on Saturday afternoons with thousands of other fans. As a budding engineer, he also envisioned himself walking the Blacksburg campus as a student one day. With the help of two key scholarships, that dream became a reality.
Date: Feb 22, 2022 -
Article ItemA star in the world of ceramic engineering , article
Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor Ling Li has found clues in the skeletons of the knobby starfish that could lead to innovations for stronger ceramics. His work was featured on the cover of Science Magazine.
Date: Feb 16, 2022 -
Article ItemChris Williams named senior member of the National Academy of Inventors , article
Williams has excelled in the field of additive manufacturing (also called 3D printing), establishing himself as a pioneer from the earliest days of the technology’s appearance on the Virginia Tech campus.
Date: Feb 11, 2022 -
Article ItemNew soft robot morphs from a ground to air vehicle using liquid metal , article
A research team led by Michael Bartlett, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, has created a drone that changes modes by using temperature and dynamic materials. Their work was recently published in Science Robotics.
Date: Feb 09, 2022 -
Article ItemUsing ice to boil water: Researcher makes heat transfer discovery that expands on 18th century principle , article
Researcher Jonathan Boreyko and graduate fellow Mojtaba Edalatpour have made a discovery about the properties of water that could provide an exciting addendum to a phenomenon established over two centuries ago. The discovery also holds interesting possibilities for cooling devices and processes in industrial applications using only the basic properties of water.
Date: Jan 21, 2022 -
Article ItemDrones that fly away from a 3D printer: Undergraduates create science nonfiction , article
A Virginia Tech undergraduate student team is developing a 3D-printing system capable of autonomously creating drones that could fly away as soon as their fabrication is complete.
Date: Dec 10, 2021 -
Article ItemStudent explores the broad engineering workforce with co-ops and internships , article
Spencer Macturk has immersed himself in the work of co-ops and internships, connecting what he learns in the classroom to industry. He aims to finish five such experiences by the time he graduates.
Date: Nov 29, 2021 -
Article ItemEngineering student brings youth drone academy program to the Dominican Republic , article
The program was modeled on part of the Malawi class co-founded by Assistant Professor Kevin Kochersberger, putting materials in the hands of students to build motorized foam gliders to test the laws of aerodynamics, electricity, and surfaces.
Date: Nov 19, 2021 -
Article ItemReza Mirzaeifar named John R. Jones III Faculty Fellow , article
A member of the Virginia Tech faculty since 2014, Mirzaeifar has a notable record of conducting research in the area of advanced materials, including metal-graphene composites, 3D printed alloys, thin films, and shape memory alloys/polymers with particular emphasis on studying the mechanical behavior of these materials at nano, micro, and macroscales.
Date: Nov 18, 2021 -
Article ItemShima Shahab receives NSF EAGER award to study acoustic holograms , article
Shahab, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Multiphysics Intelligent and Dynamical Systems Laboratory, is the principal investigator on a study that will investigate the way sound waves are reshaped as they encounter an engineered lens, and the reshaping of a wave within body tissues.
Date: Nov 17, 2021 -
Article ItemJiangtao Cheng named fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers , article
The status of fellow is bestowed upon members of the society with 10 or more years of active practice and at least 10 years of active corporate membership, as described by the organization. Roughly 3,000 fellows have been chosen out of the more than 100,000 members.
Date: Nov 05, 2021 -
Article ItemThrough the eyes of underwater creatures , article
With funding from the Office of Naval Research, mechanical engineering Assistant Professor Michael Bartlett is putting a bio-inspired sensory system to work in a series of soft electronics to be worn by humans.
Date: Nov 03, 2021 -
Article ItemFighting fire with foam, the eco-friendly way , article
Two Virginia Tech researchers have been awarded $1.2 million to develop an electronic molecular toolbox that uses machine learning and analytical techniques to support the development of environmentally friendly, firefighting foam.
Date: Oct 25, 2021 -
Article ItemResearchers learn how swimming ducks balance water pressure in their feathers while diving , article
A team of students working with Jonathan Boreyko, associate professor in mechanical engineering, has discovered the method ducks use to suspend water in their feathers while diving, allowing them to shake it out when surfacing.
Date: Jun 02, 2021