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A Senior Design Project Turns into a Patent Click on the title to read more. Categories: News, Student Spotlights |
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ME Graduate’s Cancer Treatment Startup Wins $500,000 Grant To Test Their Technology In Space Click on the title to read more. Categories: News, Research Spotlights, Student Spotlights |
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Rescuing Drones From the Ocean Click on the title to read more. Categories: News, Student Spotlights |
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Thanh Nguyen named the ACell Young Investigator Faculty Award Winner Prof. Thanh Nguyen receives the highly regarded ACell Young Investigator Faculty Award at the 2020 Regenerative Medicine Workshop, which brings together leading experts from across the expansive field of regenerative medicine. Prof. Nguyen will deliver a keynote speech along with other world renowned researchers in the field of regenerative medicine during the event, which will […] Categories: Faculty News, Research Spotlights |
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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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Design, Build. Compete. UConn Formula SAE Among the Best in the World. by Kassidy Manness ME Communications kassidy.manness@uconn.edu Formula SAE Club ready for another exciting year of designing, building, and competing. “Design. Build. Compete” is the motto that drives the determined and creative minds that make up the Formula SAE club here at UConn. Their club, consisting of many Mechanical Engineering students, is responsible for designing and […] Categories: Department Achievements, News, Student 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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QRfertile: Male Fertility Test Developers Win Venture Competition (via UConn Today) Stephanie Knowlton and Reza Amin, both engineering doctoral students working with Prof. Savas Tasoglu, won first prize in the 2018 Wolff New Venture Competition to develop QRfertile – an in-home device to measure male fertility. Read more at UConn Today. Categories: News, Research, Student Spotlights |
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UConn AIAA Chapter Goes To The Spaceport America Cup The new UConn AIAA student chapter competed for the first time in the Spaceport America Cup during the summer of 2018. Advised by ME professor, Dr. Jackie Sung, the students designed and built a rocket for the competition. More details on the School of Engineering website. Categories: News, Student Spotlights |
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Dan Wang and Professor Xu Chen win Best Paper Award at the 2018 International Symposium on Flexible Automation ME graduate student Dan Wang and Professor Xu Chen won the Best Paper (Theory) of the 2018 International Symposium on Flexible Automation (ISFA) for their paper titled “Synthesis and Analysis of Multirate Repetitive Control for Fractional-order Periodic Disturbance Rejection in Powder Bed Fusion.” The ISFA started in 1986 under the co-sponsorship of the American Society […] Categories: Faculty and Staff Spotlights, News, Research |
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