Department of Mechanical Engineering | Awards and Accomplishments Archives

Aaditya Rau wins Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award (PURA)

January 4, 2021

Mechanical engineering junior Aaditya Rau has been awarded the Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award (PURA) for his project titled “Atomistic Simulations of Dislocation Mechanisms in Nanotwinned Ni-Mo-W Alloys.” The PURA grant is open to undergraduates from any division working with a mentor in any JHU division, center, or institute. Undergraduates can perform independent research, create a design, […]

Postdoc Lucas Frérot wins EPFL thesis award

December 15, 2020

Lucas Frérot was awarded the “2020 EPFL PhD Thesis Distinction in Civil and Environmental Engineering” for his recent PhD thesis. EPFL is the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland that specializes in natural sciences and engineering. The PhD distinction is awarded to only the best 8% PhD theses of each EPFL Doctoral Program. Frérot received the award […]

Rajat Mittal named 2021 ASME Freeman Scholar

December 8, 2020

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) has named Rajat Mittal, a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, as the recipient of the 2021 Freeman Scholar Award. Given annually to a person of significant expertise in fluids engineering, Mittal won the award in recognition of his pioneering work on immersed boundary methods, which played […]

Doctoral student Matthew Pittman awarded NIH training fellowship

October 7, 2020

The four-year, $182,080 grant will provide Pittman with mentored research training and will support his dissertation work, which focuses on the role of viscosity in basic cell behavior and function.

Ryan Hurley and Rui Ni receive 2020 Space@Hopkins Seed Grant

September 14, 2020

Ryan Hurley and Rui Ni, assistant professors in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, have been awarded a 2020 Space@Hopkins Seed Grant. In their proposal, titled “Electrostatically-Charged Contact Mechanics in Lunar and Martian Dust Environments,” the pair aims to create novel proof-of-concept experiments with the specific goal of relating particle roughness and charging to cohesion and […]

Yun Chen receives NIH Trailblazer Award

September 9, 2020

Yun and her team will use the award to develop a first-of-its-kind, tension-sensitive drug release system that targets only diseased cells, leaving healthy cells alone.

Jeff Wang and colleagues receive award to develop HIV self-testing technology

August 19, 2020

Wang and a multi-disciplinary team of researchers were awarded $3 million by the National Institutes of Health to develop a diagnostic device for self-testing HIV viral load.

Cristina Martin-Linares wins prestigious ”la Caixa” Fellowship

August 19, 2020

Awarded by ”la Caixa” Foundation and personally handed over by the King of Spain in an official ceremony, the ”la Caixa” Fellowship, conferred since 1982, is considered the most important in Spain and one of the most prestigious in Europe.

Wei-Hung Jung receives NCI F99/K00 Award

July 30, 2020

Jung is the first Johns Hopkins student to receive the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Fellow Transition Award (F99/K00).

Jeremy D. Brown wins two grants to investigate haptic perception in robotic applications

July 22, 2020

Grants from the NIH-funded Interdisciplinary Rehabilitation Engineering Research Career Development Program (IREK12) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) will support Brown’s research on haptic perception in robotic applications.