Johns Hopkins engineering students build custom walker for tiny toddler
December 21, 2017
Through Baltimore nonprofit V-LINC, a group of budding mechanical engineers make one family’s holidays a little brighter.
News: Student Stories
Ready to launch: Design competition challenges students to build a device that launches a foam football in the air
December 7, 2017
First-year students apply mechanical engineering principles they’ve learned in their intro classes in annual design challenge competition.
Serendipity Leads to Simpler Method for Analyzing DNA
December 1, 2017
Unintentional scientific breakthroughs are not entirely uncommon, but the knowledge gathered from serendipitous discoveries brings a certain kind of excitement and inspiration to investigators about their research. Sarah Friedrich, INBT PhD candidate; her colleagues; and her mentor, Jeff Tza-Huei Wang, experienced this excitement when they unintentionally discovered a new method that drastically improves the process of testing DNA.
Students win Travel Awards from ASCB
October 5, 2017
Wei-Hung Jung, Jennifer Flournoy, and Khalid Elawad, who have been selected for Travel Awards to attend and present their research at The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)/ European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) 2017 Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PA, December 2-6. The students are advised by Mechanical Engineering Professor Yun Chen.
Hopkins Baja team competes in 2017 SAE Illinois
June 15, 2017
Each year, the Hopkins Baja team designs and builds a single-seat off-road vehicle that can withstand rough terrain. The competition includes dynamic events—such as acceleration, hill climbs, and rock crawls—and a single, four-hour endurance race.
Mechanical Engineering students join inaugural class of Clark Scholars
May 31, 2017
This year’s inaugural class of 10 Clark Scholars included two mechanical engineering majors: Christopher Williams and Arion Morshedian.
Hopkins grad students imagine a future in which robots can do just about anything
May 18, 2017
The player approaches the ball and prepares to score the goal. The crowd waits anxiously. The player isn’t David Beckham or Cristiano Ronaldo—it’s a small, blue EduMIP mobile robot. And it’s not the final moments of the World Cup. Instead, it’s a robotics demonstration in a lab on the campus of Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering.
For JHU’s Engineering Design Day, students perfect their pitches and showcase their prototypes
May 8, 2017
Engineering students will present the projects they’ve spent a semester or more working on as part of Engineering Design Day—the annual year-end Whiting School of Engineering event in which students tasked with designing solutions to real-world problems display their research, devices, and prototypes.
Johns Hopkins engineers build lightweight stroller for Syrian boy with special needs
April 24, 2017
Karam Tarazi suffers from a rare progressive genetic condition. Budding engineers at JHU worked with his family to design and assemble an alternative to his heavy wheelchair.
Piezoelectric Flag featured in Applied Energy journal
April 5, 2017
Who knew that a flag flapping in the breeze could generate energy? Professors Rajat Mittal and Sung Hoon Kang did! They worked with postdoctoral researchers Santiago Orrego and Koroush Shoele and undergraduate researchers Andre Ruas ’18, Kyle Doran ’18, and Brett Caggiano ’18. They studied wind energy harvesting by creating a novel piezoelectric flag orientation […]
