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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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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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New Materials Testing Apparatus Could Mean Money, Time Saved for Manufacturers New Materials Testing Apparatus Could Mean Money, Time Saved for Manufacturers Categories: News |
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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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New technology from Prof. Thanh Nguyen published in Science The latest issue of Science features a new technology invented and developed by our very own assistant professor Dr. Thanh D. Nguyen. Prof. Nguyen’s brainchild, developed during his postdoc with Prof. Robert Langer at MIT, offers the latest advance in 3D manufacturing for microstructures of biomaterials: StampEd Assembly of polymer Layers, or SEAL for short. The […] Categories: Department Achievements, Faculty News, News |
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New Device for Testing Heart Health Dr. George Lykotrafitis and his student Kostyantyn Partola have been featured for their development of a device that tests blood viscosity – an important indicator of heart health. Kostyantyn has had support from the Accelerate UConn program as well as the Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Fellowship program to support the commercialization of the […] Categories: News, Research, Research Spotlights |
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Prof. Thanh Nguyen garners the NIH R21 Trailblazer Award for his work on “Bionic Self-stimulated Cartilage.” Dr. Nguyen received a NIH R21 trailblazer young investigator award for a project entitled “bionic self-stimulated cartilage”, in collaboration with Dr. Cato Laurencin at UConn Health, school of medicine. This highly-interdisciplinary project aims to integrate a new biopolymer, developed in Nguyen Lab, with a chondrocyte tissue graft to create an exciting hybrid artificial cartilage. The PIs hope […] Categories: News |
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Emeritus Prof. Lee Langston goes to Italy with the ASME History & Heritage Committee Professor Emeritus Lee Langston, a member of the ASME History & Heritage Committee, recently traveled to Palermo, Italy, to represent UConn and ASME at the ceremony recognizing the engine collection housed within the University of Palermo’s Museum of Engines and Mechanisms. From left to right: Giuseppe Genchi, Terry Reynolds, and Lee Langston. Photo by ASME/Wil […] Categories: Faculty News |
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