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Gel Repairs Cartilage Without Surgery, With Electricity by Kim Krieger – UConn Communications Instead of requiring surgery to insert a solid scaffold, the gel could be simply injected into the knee, a much less invasive procedure A lifetime of activity can gradually erode the cartilage that cushions our joints. Someday, we might simply inject a gel to repair it, University of Connecticut […] Categories: Research, Research Spotlights, Student Spotlights |
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New Digital Design Center Aids U.S. Army Vehicle Production By Claire Tremont, Manager of Communications and Digital Strategy Operated through the University of Connecticut School of Engineering, the Digital Design Research, Analysis, and Manufacturing (D2REAM) Center – an academic-government-industry partnership that will develop groundbreaking modeling and simulation capabilities for the next generation of Army ground vehicle systems – aims to support advanced structural digital […] Categories: Research, Research Spotlights |
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UConn Graduate Students Win First Prize at Annual ASME Hackathon by Joanna Giano, Written Communications Assistant UConn’s team of Mechanical Engineering Graduate students achieved a remarkable victory, securing first place at the national hackathon event hosted by The Computer & Information in Engineering (CIE) Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). This annual competition featured 34 participants from 18 institutions and took place […] Categories: Faculty News, Research, Research Spotlights, Student Spotlights |
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New NIH Grant to Help Unravel the Molecular Mechanisms of Atherosclerotic Vascular Disease Approximately 537 million people worldwide are affected by diabetes mellitus, a condition characterized by high blood sugar levels. By 2030, it is projected that this number will increase to 643 million. Among individuals with diabetes, almost half are older adults aged 65 or above who have type 2 diabetes. As the global population ages and […] Categories: Research |
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Biodegradable Ultrasound Opens the Blood-Brain Barrier A new, biodegradable piezoelectric device far more powerful than previous devices could make brain cancers more treatable, a team of Mechanical Engineering researchers report in the June 14 issue of Science Advances. The group, developed a novel sensor from electrospun crystals of glycine, an amino acid that is a common protein in the body, and […] Categories: Faculty News, Research, Uncategorized |
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Recharging Cartilage After Knee Damage Through Tissue Regeneration By studying rabbits, Prof. Thanh Nguyen‘s group is using biodegradable piezoelectric film to aid in growth of new cartilage. Read the whole science highlight on the NIH’s website here: https://www.nibib.nih.gov/news-events/newsroom/recharging-cartilage-after-knee-damage Categories: Faculty and Staff Spotlights, Research, Research Spotlights, Uncategorized |
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Three ME Faculty Members win NSF CAREER Awards in 2022 NSF Early Career Development (CAREER) Program awards are highly prestigious, offered to early-career faculty members who demonstrate the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education. Three ME faculty members have received this prestigious award in 2022. Congratulations to all three recipients! Hongyi Xu Anna Tarakanova George Matheou Prof. Xu’s award will […] Categories: Department Achievements, Faculty News, Research, Uncategorized |
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Visualizing the Way Spike Protein Shows Off its Moves Prof. Anna Tarakanova, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, and two of her graduate students, Genny Kunkel and Mohammad Madani, develop computational models describing which parts of the spike protein flex, how mutations affect that flexibility, and how it all affects antibodies’ grip. Categories: Department Achievements, Faculty and Staff Spotlights, Research |
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Tianfeng Lu elected as a Combustion Institute (CI) Fellow We are proud to announce that Mechanical Engineering Professor Tianfeng Lu has been recognized as one of the 2021 Class of Fellows for The Combustion Institute. Prof. Lu joins a class of 32 accomplished international scholars from industry, academia, and the public sector, and was recognized for “the development of computationally efficient and accurate methods […] Categories: Faculty and Staff Spotlights, Faculty News, Research |
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New ARPA-E grant received by Prof. Julian Norato Prof. Julian Norato has received a new ARPA-E grant to study Topology Optimization and Additive Manufacturing for Performance Enhancement of High Temperature and High Pressure Heat Exchangers. High-temperature, high-pressure heat exchangers can substantially increase heat transfer efficiency and reduce the size and weight of the heat exchangers. In this project, the group will consider counterflow […] Categories: Faculty and Staff Spotlights, Faculty News, Research |
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Xinyu Zhao and Ying Li receive the prestigious NSF CAREER award Two ME professors received the 2020 National Science Foundation’s CAREER award, which is the Foundation’s most prestigious award in support of early-career faculty. Prof. Xinyu Zhao’s 500k CAREER award focuses on developing a fundamental understanding of flame extinction, which plays a central role in promoting energy security, environmental sustainability, air-travel safety and opportune fire suppression. […] Categories: Faculty and Staff Spotlights, Research, Research Spotlights |
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Prof. Poludnenko’s Paper on Supernovae Explosions Published in Science Read the whole story about Prof. Alexei Poludnenko’s Research in UConn Today. Categories: Faculty News, News, Research |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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