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Sung Hoon Kang, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and a fellow in the Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute, has received a grant through the Bisciotti Foundation Translational Fund.…

Johns Hopkins mechanical engineers design a snake robot based on the climbing technique of the kingsnake that could help advance search-and-rescue technology.

For advancing both the theoretical and practical understanding of turbulence through groundbreaking modeling techniques and applications of Large Eddy Simulation (LES).

“Telerobotics for Remote Control of Medical Equipment in Contagious Environments” won the Best Innovation Award at the inaugural Medical Robotics for Contagious Diseases Challenge 2020.

Awarded every three years by the European Association for the Promotion of Research into the Dynamic Behavior of Materials and Its Applications (DYMAT), this award recognizes outstanding effort and creative work in the science and technology of dynamic processes in materials and related applications.

Using DNA as a scaffold, engineers create synthetic nanomaterial that could pave the way for rapid and more accurate diagnostic testing from a single molecule.

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.”

Frérot received the award for his thesis was on “Bridging Scales in Wear Modeling with Volume Integral Methods for Elastic-Plastic Contact.”

Altogether, the winning project teams—chosen from 274 proposals—include 136 individuals representing 11 Johns Hopkins entities. Two awarded projects include faculty from the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

Mittal won the award in recognition of his pioneering work on immersed boundary methods, which played a major role in transforming what was primarily a method developed by applied mathematicians into a powerful tool that has seen widespread adoption by the fluid dynamics and engineering community.

Mechanical engineer Charles Meneveau co-organized a mini-symposium on Wind Energy Fluid Mechanics at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society's Division of Fluid Dynamics, where researchers described the promise and fluid dynamics challenges of wind energy.

Inspired by the famed Drake equation, the Contagion Airborne Transmission (CAT) inequality seeks to make sense of the many variables, including environmental ones, that can affect transmissibility of COVID-19.