MechE Force is an e-newsletter distributed to students, alumni, and friends of the JHU Mechanical Engineering Department. We recently published our third issue, which can be found in its entirety by clicking here.
In this issue:
A Message from Professor Louis Whitcomb, Mechanical Engineering Department Chair
- Mobile Medicine – A Johns Hopkins research team, led by Jeff Wang, is featured in The Baltimore Sun for developing a hand-held chlamydia test.
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Crickets and Their Spectacular Dancelike Leaps – The New York Times highlights Rajat Mittal and his team (including Emily Palmer BS ‘18) for their research.
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Maneuvering the Terrain – Chen Li explores the relationship between biology and robotics.
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Powering the Grid – Energy storage could ease many power grid woes. Dennice Gayme identifies barriers to grid-scale storage.
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Tamer Zaki Promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure
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Sean Sun Promoted to Full Professor
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Steven Marra Promoted to Associate Teaching Professor
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Lori Lewis Promoted to Senior Research Service Analyst
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Seven Graduate Students Defend Dissertations
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Hopkins Baja Achieves Top Ten Placements in 2015 Races
- Kevin Hemker Elected to American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Dennice Gayme Named 2015 Catalyst Award Recipient
- MechE Research Team Receives E²SHI Seed Grant to Study Energy Harvesting
- Noah Cowan and James Knierim Receive 2015 Johns Hopkins Discovery Award
- Gregory Chirikjian Wins IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering Best Paper Award
- David Kraemer on Team Competing for Department of Energy’s Wave Energy Prize
- Senior Design Students Create a Tamper-proof Pill Bottle to Curb Misuse
- PhD Student Ahmed Hussein Receives Highly Competitive National Research Council Research Postdoctoral Fellowship Award
- K.T. Ramesh and Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute Celebrate Extreme Arts Interns
- IEEE Spectrum profiles WSE’s Team Aezon