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Buzzing Through the Blood-Brain Barrier Prof. Thanh Nguyen’s research group has reported on the first biodegradable ultrasonic transducer that can help medication move from blood vessels into brain tissues and circumvent the body’s traditional defense mechanisms.The work is published in the journal of PNAS (Proceeding of National Academy of Science) (Dec 2019), and the two first authors of this paper […] Categories: Faculty News, News, Research, Research Spotlights |
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Professor Matheou’s Exhibit @ the Benton Blends Art and Science With Teaching By: Alexandra Meropoulos, Student Written Communications Specialist, UConn School of Engineering Art and science are two fields that appear to be worlds apart at first glance, but according to George Matheou, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, the intersection between the two are actually extremely important. This notion became the inspiration behind his art exhibit called […] Categories: Faculty and Staff Spotlights, Faculty News |
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Norato Receives ASME Young Investigator Award by Kassidy Manness ME Communications kassidy.manness@uconn.edu During the 45th Annual Design Automation Conference, held by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) this past summer, Mechanical Engineering Professor Julián Norato has been awarded the prestigious Design Automation Young Investigator Award. This award is given once each year “to recognize an outstanding young investigator who is […] Categories: Faculty and Staff Spotlights, Faculty News, News, Research Spotlights |
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50 years ago, Prof. Langston helped power Apollo 11 to the moon and back Our own Prof. Lee Langston helped Apollo 11 make history by being part pf the team designing the fuel cells that powered Apollo 11 to the moon and the return trip to Earth. Read more in the Hartford Courant’s article. Categories: Faculty and Staff Spotlights, Faculty News, News |
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50 years ago, Prof. Langston helped power Apollo 11 to the moon and back Our own Prof. Lee Langston helped Apollo 11 make history by being part pf the team designing the fuel cells that powered Apollo 11 to the moon and the return trip to Earth. Read more in the Hartford Courant’s article. Categories: Faculty and Staff Spotlights, Faculty News, News |
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Fueling the Fire: Studying Flame Behavior to Improve Combustion Systems February 20, 2019 – Anna Zarra Aldrich ’20 (CLAS), Office of the Vice President for Research The power you feel underneath you when you’re on a plane as it takes off is tremendous. The physics that enable the remarkable feat of lifting a 175,000-pound midsize commercial aircraft into the sky and keeping it there are […] Categories: Faculty News, Research, Research Spotlights, Uncategorized |
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Chih-Jen (Jackie) Sung Named Combustion Institute Fellow By: Eli Freund, Editorial Communications Manager, UConn School of Engineering The UConn School of Engineering is proud to announce that Mechanical Engineering Professor Chih-Jen Sung has been recognized as one of the 2019 Class of Fellows for The Combustion Institute. Sung joins a class of 38 accomplished international scholars from industry, academia, and the public […] Categories: Faculty News, News, Research Spotlights, Uncategorized |
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ME Students Revamp Hartford’s Historic Keney Clock Tower After a four-year vacation, the Historic Keney Clock is telling time again thanks to senior design project completed by Mechanical Engineering students seniors Henry Courchaine ’19, Garrett Murphy ’19, and Spencer Padget ’19 advised by Thomas Mealy. The project was a collaboration between UConn, the City of Hartford and Friends of Keney Park. Through our […] Categories: Faculty News, News, Student Spotlights |
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Our Senior Design Program Leads to Mutually Beneficial Partnerships with Industry Through our Senior Design Program, industrial sponsors put the bright UConn ME undergraduate students to work on a real-world problem that they are interested in researching, while reaping the benefits of our faculty’s experience and expertise. For students, this program is an opportunity to synthesize and apply the classroom engineering knowledge they have acquired. They […] Categories: Faculty and Staff Spotlights, Faculty News |
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A new, nature-inspired self-healing rubber developed by Prof. Li and his collaborators from USC. A new paper published by Prof. Ying Li and his collaborators from University of Southern California in NPG Asia Materials provide the details of a new class of self-healing rubber that is inspired by the healing of natural tissues. For more details, please see the news article from UConn Today. Categories: Faculty and Staff Spotlights, Faculty News, Research, Uncategorized |
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Nejat Olgac Awarded Honorary Doctorate from Czech Technical University Professor Nejat Olgac received an honorary doctorate from the Czech Technical University in Prague during a ceremony that took place on January 29, 2019. Read more on the School of Engineering’s website. Categories: Faculty News, News |
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Jiong Tang to serve as the General Chair for ASME IDETC & CIE 2019 Prof. Jiong Tang will serve as the general conference chair for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers’ international annual design conference in Anaheim CA. The 2019 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conference (IDETC) and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (CIE) will take place between August August 18 – 21, 2019 at the Anaheim Convention […] Categories: Faculty News, Uncategorized |
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Prof. Zhao’s new DoD Grant Aims to Better Understand Aeronautical Combustion Via UConn Today: Categories: Faculty and Staff Spotlights, Faculty News, Research, Research Spotlights |
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Strain Improves Performance of Atomically Thin Semiconductor Material Dr. Michael Pettes and his graduate student Wei Wu have significantly improved the performance of an atomically thin semiconductor material by stretching it, an accomplishment that could prove beneficial to engineers designing the next generation of flexible electronics, nano devices, and optical sensors. The findings mark the first time scientists have been able to conclusively show […] Categories: Faculty News, News |
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Profs. Chen and Norato win coveted 2018 NSF CAREER awards for their work on Additive Manufacturing and Topology Optimization Two ME professors received the 2018 National Science Foundation’s CAREER award, which is the Foundation’s most prestigious award in support of early-career faculty. Prof. Xu Chen’s award will support his research on thermal modeling, sensing, and controls to enable new generations of powder bed fusion (PBF) additive manufacturing. In contrast to conventional machining, where parts […] Categories: Department Achievements, Faculty and Staff Spotlights, Faculty News, Research, Research Spotlights, Uncategorized |
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New DoE Funded Advanced Manufacturing Program to Educate a New Generation of Engineering Leaders The new grant funded by the US Department of Energy supports new graduate programs in Mechanical Engineering to train the next generation of advanced manufacturing leaders. The UConn effort has been led by Prof. Ugur Pasaogullari. More details can be found on the School of Engineering website. Categories: Faculty News, Uncategorized |
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Biodegradable Sensor Monitors Pressure in the Body then Disappears More details about the research being developed in Prof. Thanh Nguyen’s research group can be found in UConn Today. Categories: Faculty and Staff Spotlights, Faculty News, News, Research, Research Spotlights |
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Prof. Xinyu Zhao Awarded American Chemical Society Grant for Research on Bluff-Body Stabilized Premixed Flame Dr. Xinyu Zhao has been awarded an American Chemical Society Grant through the Petroleum Research fund for her research entitled “A computational study of the lean blow-off mechanisms for a bluff-body stabilized premixed flame.” The fund supports research directly related to petroleum and fossil fuels at nonprofit institutions around the world. Increasingly stringent emission requirements […] Categories: Faculty and Staff Spotlights, Faculty News, News, Research |
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Prof. Zhao Awarded Air Force Young Investigator Program for Work on Turbulent Premixed Flames The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) has honored Professor Xinyu Zhao as one of just 43 scientists and engineers awarded YIP grants for her research project titled “Pockets in Highly Turbulent Premixed Flames: Physics and Implications on Modeling.” The grant is worth a total of $450,000 over three […] Categories: Department Achievements, Faculty and Staff Spotlights, Faculty News, News, Research, Research Spotlights |
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Prof. David Pierce Wins 3 New Grants Assistant Professor David Pierce will be deploying his Interdisciplinary Mechanics Laboratory to tackle three projects that just received funding: two from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and one from the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research Development and Engineering Center (NSRDEC). The first NSF-funded project (titled Biomechanical Simulations of Progressing Osteoarthritis to Advance Understanding and Therapies) explores how […] Categories: Faculty News, News |
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