News

Tza-Huei (Jeff) Wang, professor of mechanical engineering, was appointed the Louis M. Sardella Professor in the Whiting School of Engineering.

The American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME) has named Thao (Vicky) Nguyen, a professor of mechanical engineering and the Marlin U. Zimmerman Faculty Scholar at Johns Hopkins University, as the next co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Biomechanical Engineering. Nguyen’s five-year term will begin January 2022.

The award is given in recognition of outstanding teaching in WSE at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and a demonstrated dedication to students.

“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.

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.

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 friction during mechanical contact of rough particles with rough or smooth surfaces.

Read MechE's Diversity & Inclusion statement on recent events, and learn how we plan to foster a more inclusive environment for our department.

Welcome to the Spring 2020 issue of MechE Force! I am pleased to share with you a snapshot of our many activities and accomplishments in the last several months and what’s ahead. To see some of what we accomplished as a department last year, watch our 2019 Year in Review Video. I am happy to…

Johns Hopkins University graduate programs in education, engineering, public affairs, medicine, and nursing are among the country’s very best, according to the annual U.S. News & World Report rankings of the nation’s Best Graduate Schools released today. Other disciplines, such as public health—which has held the No. 1 spot for 26 consecutive years—and the sciences,…

Organized by the NAE and the Engineering Academy of Japan, the symposium will bring together 60 outstanding early-career Japanese and American engineers to discuss research and technical work in various engineering disciplines.

As 2019 comes to a close, we look back at our achievements as a department – and consider where we want the next year to take us. Our extraordinary faculty, staff, students, and alumni continue to amaze us with their passion, creativity, and commitment. Their hard work is evident in every research breakthrough, in the…

Professor Thao (Vicky) Nguyen will deliver a lecture titled “Biomechanics of the optic nerve head in glaucoma” as part of the Don P. Giddens Inaugural Professorial Lecture Series.