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- - Robin White seeks better agriculture by harnessing new technology
    In her five years at Virginia Tech, White has taken a lead role in harnessing advancements in technology to study livestock and convert big data into applications for producers. During Friday's State of the University address, White described the SmartFarm Innovation Network and its effect on animal health and sustainability.
- - Engineering students win $25,000 in international product-pitching competition
    An exoskeleton concept put Maroon Assistive Technologies in first place in the Virginia Tech Global Entrepreneur Challenge, a pitch competition won last year by a student team from Chile.
- - Lockheed Martin on campus Sept. 4 and 5 to recruit students
    Lockheed Martin will be at the Inn at Virginia Tech on Sept. 4 and 5 to recruit a variety of engineering and business majors, including computer science, aerospace engineering, computer programming, software development, finance, and accounting.
- - In memoriam: Walter F. O'Brien Jr., J. Bernard Jones Professor of Mechanical Engineering
    O'Brien was a member of the Virginia Tech faculty for more than 52 years, and was the first faculty member from the mechanical engineering department to receive a named professorship.
- - Virginia Tech Hyperloop team appears at fourth pod competition
    After a year of designing and fabricating their pod, seven Hokies flew out to Los Angeles for the competition, including a recent graduate and two graduate students who served as advisors to the team.
- - Multi-containment filters key to recycling pollutants, creating cleaner energy
    A mechanical engineering professor will analyze panel-bed filters that could be used to absorb pollutants to be recycled.
- - 'Sneezing' plants contribute to disease proliferation
    Virginia Tech researchers have found that jumping droplets have an impact in the spread of wheat leaf rust spores.
- - Students win international vehicle safety design competition
    A group of engineering graduate students won the international championship for the 2019 Collegiate Student Safety Technology Design Competition, hosted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in the Netherlands last week.
- - Bubble of an idea leads to new research on freezing
    A mechanical engineering professor and his students studied soap bubbles to learn how the "snow globe" effect takes place and learned about the nature of freezing.
- - Student engineering team advances to global vehicle safety design competition
    A team of Virginia Tech engineering students is advancing to the global round of the Student Safety Technology Design Competition, sponsored by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. They will present their prototype safety system aimed at reducing injuries for vehicle occupants during a rear-end collision.
- - Virginia Tech engineers victorious with another first place at agBOT
    The agBOT competition consisted of two separate contests: a weed and seed event and a competition to design an autonomous system that can collect, store, and prepare a soil sample for analysis.
- - Bats have an ambulance in their ears
    Engineering researchers think the study of ear-generated Doppler shifts in bat biosonar could give rise to new sensory principles that could enable small, yet powerful sensors.
- - Jumping drops get boost from gravity
    Researchers from Virginia Tech are seeking the best way to shed moisture from condensers to increase the efficiency of a variety of items including power plants or anything that requires heat exchange.
- - Class of 2019: Doctoral student credits ‘lab family’ with accomplishments
    In addition to his prodigious publishing and mentorship efforts while at Virginia Tech, Farzad Ahmadi also helped solve a notoriously difficult problem in fluid dynamics, one that many senior engineers had already given up on: How to create a cheap, durable, and passive anti-frosting surface.
- - Students develop open-source hops dryer design to share with growers everywhere
    A team of mechanical engineering students partnered with researchers in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences to develop a low-cost solution to drying hops.
- - College of Engineering inducts four members into the Academy of Engineering Excellence
    Virginia Tech's College of Engineering inducted four new members at its 20th annual Academy of Engineering Excellence. The academy consists of 156 alumni out of Virginia Tech's approximately 68,000 living engineering alumni who have achieved exceptional career successes.
- - Wing Ng appointed Alumni Distinguished Professor
    Ng, the Christopher C. Kraft Endowed Professor of mechanical engineering in the College of Engineering, has been named an Alumni Distinguished Professor by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors.
- - Three engineering faculty elected as AIAA Fellows
    Three faculty members of the College of Engineering were elected as Fellows in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
- - Interdisciplinary team discovers double helix structure in synthetic macromolecule
    The discovery that a high-strength polymer called "PBDT" has a rare double helix structure opens possibilities for use in a variety of applications.
- - Rayne Zheng receives Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award
    Zheng, assistant professor of mechanical engineering in the College of Engineering, has received the award to study rational design and additive manufacturing of 3D piezoelectrics with arbitrary anisotropy for maritime self-sensing structures.

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