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The lightweight, foam-like material could reduce fuel consumption in vehicles and make protective gear more comfortable.

His CAREER project aims to shed light on soft tissue behavior to improve autonomous robot controllers, making surgery safer and more accurate.

This distinction honoring the late Nobuhide Kasagi is awarded to early career innovators in relevant research areas.

Jeremy D. Brown is among 118 Sloan Research Fellows honored for their exceptional early-career science research.

Steven Marra, director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been named a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Tsai is one of 51 Brooke Owens Fellows, who receive paid internships and mentorship from aerospace professionals.

Experiments investigating how bubbles interact with swirls of air or water upend decades-held theory of turbulence research.

In four experiments on pig tissues, the robot excelled at suturing two ends of intestine—one of the most intricate and delicate tasks in abdominal surgery.

Sung Hoon Kang focuses his research on how nature—plants, animals, the human body—can provide inspiration for engineering breakthroughs. Through a four-year, roughly $600,000 Air Force grant, he is studying how the lightweight, adaptable, irregular structure of bird bones could provide a blueprint for more efficient and resilient aerospace and automotive materials.

The Barman lab group has been awarded a grant for early cancer cell detection technologies.

Researchers will develop a process to melt and blend two common but difficult-to-recycle plastic polymers to create new, high-value plastics.

Four mechanical engineering PhD students won poster awards at the 2021 Society of Engineering Science (SES) Annual Conference.