American Physical Society Honors Professor Joe Katz

10/7/09: Professor Joseph Katz was recently elected Fellow of the American Physical Society. Fellowship of the APS is  a distinct honor signifying recognition by one's professional peers, accorded to its most distinguished members.

Undergraduate Open House - October 17, 2009

Please join us on Saturday, October 17, 2009, for the Undergraduate Open House for Engineering and the Natural Sciences, which begins at 9:00 a.m. at Shriver Hall. Explore our Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Mechanics majors and meet some of our students!

New DNA Test Uses Nanotechnology to Find Early Signs of Cancer.

7/24/09: Professor Jeff Wang’s group and collaborators at Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins have developed a highly sensitive test to look for DNA attachments that often are early warning signs of cancer. More information can be found in Genome Research and JHU Gazette.

Professor Thao (Vicky) Nguyen wins a PECASE

7/7/09: President Obama today named Professor Thao (Vicky) Nguyen as one of the recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on young professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers.  The recipients will receive their awards in the Fall at a White House ceremony. Congratulations to Professor Nguyen on this tremendous award and accomplishment.

New ME Faculty Member

7/1/09: The department of Mechanical Engineering welcomes its new colleague, Professor Rajat Mittal. Professor Mittal is a world-renowned expert on computational fluid mechanics and its applications to low Reynolds number aerodynamics, biomedical flows, active flow control, LES/DNS, Immersed Boundary Methods, fluid dynamics of locomotion (swimming & flying), biomimetics & bioinspired engineering, and turbomachinery flows.

ASM International 2009 Fellow Award

6/26/09: Professor Kevin Hemker has been elected by the Board of Trustees of ASM International as a Fellow of the Society. The honor of Fellow represents recognition of his distinguished contributions in the field of materials science and engineering and for his research contributions in the understanding of deformation mechanisms, in intermetallic systems, and micro-scale mechanical testing.

Top ME Student, Top Athlete

6/9/09: John Kegelman, from our 2009 ME graduating class, has been named the 2009 ESPN The Magazine College Division Academic All-American of the Year and a First Team Academic All-American.

SEM Student Paper Competition

6/9/09: Congratulations to Cindy Byer for receiving the second place prize for her paper on microcompression and dislocation mechanisms in single crystal magnesiumin in the Student Paper Competition at the Society for Experimental Mechanics' Annual Conference in Albuquerque, NM.

New Type of Deep-Sea Vessel, “Nereus,” Reaches Deepest Part of the Ocean

A dive to 10,902 meters on May 31, 2009 by Nereus, a hybrid, remotely operated submarine, marked the start of a new era in deep-sea exploration. Co-principal investigator, ME's Professor Louis Whitcomb, developed the sub's navigation and control system. More», Interactive Tour of Nereus»

The Hopkins Baja team

4/3/09: The Hopkins Baja team has completed work on their 2009 Vehicle.  The Hopkins Baja team annually builds a vehicle for the Baja SAE competition and will race their car against 100 teams from all over North America in Auburn Alabama starting 4/16/09.  Click here for a video of the car's construction. 

Senior Design Day, Tuesday, May 5, 2009, beginning 8:30am in 210 Hodson Hall

The Senior Design Project, a unique two-semester course, is the capstone of Johns Hopkins’ Mechanical Engineering program. In the class, students, working in small teams, tackle specific design challenges presented by industry, government, and non-profit organizations. Please click here for more information on the day's events.

NASA Aeronautics Scholarship Program Award

3/27/09: Christopher Ivey, a rising junior in the BS/MS Program, won the NASA Aeronautics Scholarship Program Award, which entails two $15,000 stipends plus a $10,000 summer internship at a NASA center of his choice. For more information on the scholarship, please visit: https://nasa.asee.org/.

Noah J. Cowan receives the NSF CAREER award

3/1/2009: Prof. Noah J. Cowan has received the NSF CAREER award for his work entitled "Sensory Guidance of Locomotion: From Neurons to Newton's Laws." This five year grant will enable Prof. Cowan to explore how brains control movement in a variety of animals, including cockroaches, weakly electric knifefish, and fruit flies.

Sean Sun's research probes micromechanics of dividing bacterial cells

1/6/2009: Bacterial cells utilize a unique micromechanical device, the Z-ring, to pinch itself into 2 daughter cells during division. In a paper appearing in Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., Prof. Sun's group provides a molecular explanation of the division process. For full article: http://www.pnas.org/content/106/1/121.full

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