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Class of 2019: Doctoral student credits ‘lab family’ with accomplishments , articleIn 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.
Date: May 08, 2019 -
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Students develop open-source hops dryer design to share with growers everywhere , articleA 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.
Date: May 01, 2019 -
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College of Engineering inducts four members into the Academy of Engineering Excellence , articleVirginia 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.
Date: Apr 30, 2019 -
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Wing Ng appointed Alumni Distinguished Professor , articleNg, 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.
Date: Apr 09, 2019 -
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Three engineering faculty elected as AIAA Fellows , articleThree faculty members of the College of Engineering were elected as Fellows in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Date: Mar 14, 2019 -
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Interdisciplinary team discovers double helix structure in synthetic macromolecule , articleThe discovery that a high-strength polymer called "PBDT" has a rare double helix structure opens possibilities for use in a variety of applications.
Date: Mar 07, 2019 -
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Rayne Zheng receives Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award , articleZheng, 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.
Date: Feb 28, 2019 -
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Mechanical engineers develop process to 3D print piezoelectric materials , articleNew printing technique and materials could be used to develop intelligent materials and self-adaptive infrastructures and transducers.
Date: Jan 21, 2019 -
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Changmin Son named Rolls-Royce Commonwealth Professor , articleSon has excelled at scholarship, teaching, service, and outreach throughout his career, which began as a research assistant at Oxford University.
Date: Dec 20, 2018 -
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Virginia Tech researchers create a bacteria-based drug delivery system that outperforms conventional methods , articleResearchers have developed a process to chemically attach nanoparticles of anti-cancer drugs onto attenuated bacteria cells, which they have shown to be more effective than the passive delivery of injections at reaching cancer sites.
Date: Dec 19, 2018 -
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Home of the future takes first place at international competition , articleAfter years of research and development contributed by over 100 Virginia Tech students and faculty, the FutureHAUS Dubai team has officially built the world’s best solar home.
Date: Nov 28, 2018 -
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Researchers engineer nano-textured surfaces to reduce medical device infection , articleVirginia Tech mechanical engineers and chemists are researching methods to apply a nano-textured biofilm on such items as urinary catheters. The research could lead to products that lower the instance of device-associated infections.
Date: Nov 27, 2018 -
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Researchers expand breakthroughs in 3D printing Kapton, the “ultimate” polymer , articleAn interdisciplinary team of researchers at Virginia Tech's Macromolecules Innovation Institute have developed a new process to 3D print one of the most-desired materials in the electronics and aerospace industries.
Date: Nov 16, 2018 -
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House of the future and team that built it head to international competition , articleFutureHAUS Dubai, an innovative, interdisciplinary, and ambitious project to design and build a futuristic, modular smart home, is the lone American team competing against 14 other university teams at the Solar Decathlon Middle East in Dubai.
Date: Nov 06, 2018 -
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Immersive theatrical installation brings the works of Edgar Allan Poe to life , articleA theatrical installation in the Cube of the Moss Arts Center titled "Poe's Shadows," opens on Oct. 31 and includes a series of short expert talks on related and complementary topics.
Date: Oct 26, 2018 -
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Researchers study Iron Man-like exoskeletons to improve worker productivity, safety, and well-being , articleWith a $3 million award from the National Science Foundation, Virginia Tech researchers will perform fundamental research to develop whole-body powered exoskeletons for augmenting human performance in industrial use and to understand the dramatic impacts they may have on the socio-technological landscape of jobs.
Date: Oct 17, 2018 -
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Engineering and arts join forces at Moogfest , articleFaculty in mechanical engineering, a media engineering with the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology, and a commercial audio company teamed up to create a concert experience that could change the way artists approach sound in a live performance.
Date: Oct 01, 2018 -
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Thinking inside the box lands students $10,000 prize , articleThree mechanical engineering seniors received a $10,000 prize from Lockheed Martin after solving one of the company’s toughest engineering problems.
Date: Sep 24, 2018 -
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Sea urchins may be key to developing lightweight engineered cellular materials , articleStudying the sea urchin is part of a $540,000 National Science Foundation grant being investigated by Ling Li.
Date: Sep 24, 2018 -
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Michael von Spakovsky named Robert E. Hord Jr. Mechanical Engineering Professor , articleThe professorship acknowledges and rewards faculty in the Department of Mechanical Engineering who have shown exceptional merit in research, teaching, and/or service. Recipients hold the position for a five-year term.
Date: Sep 19, 2018
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