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Driving Innovation at Ford: Alum Q&A with Nia Harrison

Alum Nia Harrison talks about her Hopkins experience and career at automotive giant Ford.

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Rui Ni: Physics, Fluids, and Bubbles

New faculty Rui Ni aims to deepen our understanding of fluid dynamics from a physicist’s perspective.

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Meet Our Faculty Expert: Charles Meneveau

Watch our latest video to learn more about Charles Meneveau, the Louis M. Sardella Professor in Mechanical Engineering, and his impact on the field of turbulence and fluid mechanics.

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Research at Johns Hopkins Mechanical Engineering

Our researchers and students pursue the development of cutting-edge applications in robotics, micro- and nano-scale engineered devices and materials, energy and the environment, aerospace and marine systems, and biology and medicine.

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Driving Innovation at Ford: Alum Q&A with Nia Harrison Rui Ni: Physics, Fluids, and Bubbles Meet Our Faculty Expert: Charles Meneveau Research at Johns Hopkins Mechanical Engineering

Interdisciplinary Hopkins team wins NSF funds to build soft robots

  An team of Hopkins engineers, including MechE professors Noah Cowan and Thao (Vicky) Nguyen, has received a $2 million…

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Prof. Sean Sun and Dan Popescu discuss space elevator in Aeon article

“What would it take to build a tower as high as outer space?”

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Undergrads dive into a summer of Hopkins research through NSF REU program

Undergrads from universities nationwide dove headfirst into exciting Hopkin research projects as part of the NSF’s Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Program in Computational Sensing and Medical Robotics (CSMR).

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Upcoming Events

Sep
27
Thu
3:00 pm Department of Mechanical Enginee... @ 210 Hodson Hall
Department of Mechanical Enginee... @ 210 Hodson Hall
Sep 27 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Department of Mechanical Engineering 2018 Fall Seminar Series: Class 530.803 @ 210 Hodson Hall
An unbiased classification approach reveals multiple fusion categories of VAMP2-mediated exocytosis Presented by Professor Stephanie Gupton Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, School of Medicine University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Exocytosis is a[...]
Oct
4
Thu
3:00 pm Department of Mechanical Enginee... @ 210 Hodson Hall
Department of Mechanical Enginee... @ 210 Hodson Hall
Oct 4 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Department of Mechanical Engineering Fall Seminar Series @ 210 Hodson Hall
Functional Biomaterials for Regenerative Medicine Presented by Professor Treena Livingston Arinzeh Department of Biomedical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology Stem cells are a promising cell source in the tissue engineering and regenerative medicine fields.[...]
Oct
11
Thu
3:00 pm 24th Annual James F. Bell Memori... @ 210 Hodson Hall
24th Annual James F. Bell Memori... @ 210 Hodson Hall
Oct 11 @ 3:00 pm
24th Annual James F. Bell Memorial Lecture in Continuum Mechanics @ 210 Hodson Hall | Baltimore | Maryland | United States
“Printing Soft Matter in Three Dimensions” Presented by Professor Jennifer A. Lewis Hansjörg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering , Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University   3D printing enables one to rapidly[...]
Oct
25
Thu
3:00 pm Department of Mechanical Enginee... @ 210 Hodson Hall
Department of Mechanical Enginee... @ 210 Hodson Hall
Oct 25 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Department of Mechanical Engineering 2018 Fall Seminar Series @ 210 Hodson Hall
Micro Mechanical Methods for Biology (M3B) Presented by Professor Liwei Lin University of California, Berkeley Next-generation autonomous microfluidic components, circuits and systems have been widely investigated for the past decades by researchers from various disciplines,[...]
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