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Avian-inspired engineering
CategoriesSung 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.
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"Safe autonomous systems are crucial for our society," said Noah Cowan, professor of mechanical engineering. "Our approach will integrate traditional mathematical control theory with new and emerging AI to make systems verifiable, robust, safe, and correct."
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A Johns Hopkins University-led team has created an inexpensive portable device and cellphone app to diagnose gonorrhea in less than 15 minutes and determine if a particular strain will respond to frontline antibiotics.
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Through neuroimaging, engineers discover that prosthetics that provide haptic sensory feedback lessen the mental energy users expend when using the device.
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Simulations offer new approach for designing high strength metals under high rate loading
CategoriesJaafar El-Awady, associate professor of mechanical engineering, has co-authored research that reveals more clues about the microscopic mechanisms that govern the strength of metals. The findings were recently published in Nature Communications.
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Kang has written a focus article about the fabrication of and potential applications for an electrically-controlled shape-memory microactuator that operates in a solution matching the ion concentration of the human body.
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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.
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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.