Forest Receives a White House BRAIN Initiative Award
The National Institutes of Health announced investments totaling $46M to support the goals of the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative. More than 100...
View ArticleEmployee Spotlight: Candler Hobbs
This month's College of Engineering Cares spotlight focuses on staff members who show that a little bit of passion can go a long way when it comes to hobbies. Candler Hobbs (ME) is a young aspiring...
View ArticleBras Presented Georgia Power Professor of Excellence Award
At six home games each football season "The Georgia Power Professor of Excellence Award" presentation takes place on the field. The award recognizes one selected Professor from each of the six Colleges...
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EducationPh.D. Mechanical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, 2014M.Eng Environmental Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, 2014M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Pennsylvania State...
View ArticleSnakes and Snake-like Robots Show How Sidewinders Conquer Sandy Slopes
The amazing ability of sidewinder snakes to quickly climb sandy slopes was once something biologists only vaguely understood and roboticists only dreamed of replicating. By studying the snakes in a...
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Jason spends 50% of his time working in the Student Competition Center and 50% in undergraduate labs.Staff Group: StaffJob Title (short): Lab & Facilities CoordinatorPrimary Staff Department:...
View ArticleKumar Receives DARPA Young Investigator Award
Dr. Satish Kumar, assistant professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, has been awarded with the 2014 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award...
View ArticleMr. Georgia Tech: Mechanical Engineer, ROTC Leader, Internet Star
Mechanical engineering student Grant Veve was named Mr. Georgia Tech at the Homecoming football game Saturday, after a clever campaign video went viral on the Internet.Every year, a Mr. and Ms. Georgia...
View ArticleNew Faculty Find Way through Mentoring
For new faculty, the university environment is not necessarily new but can be an overwhelming entity of operations during the first years. At Tech, many find their place among their peers on campus...
View ArticleYou Can Do That (in China)!
In 2013, Georgia Tech mechanical engineering major Nick Selby gave a speech that would become one of the most talked about video clips of 2013. Nearly a year after, inspiring a new class of Yellow...
View ArticleHealth Projects Shine at Fall Capstone Expo
With a project offering a new way to fix drooping eyelids, a team of biomedical engineering majors won the top prize at the Fall 2014 Capstone Design Expo.The OculoSeal team – Mohamad Ali Najia, Jackie...
View ArticleTwo ME Faculty Named ASME Fellows
Professors Ken Cunefare and Mike Leamy were both recently named American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Fellows.The ASME Committee of Past Presidents confers the Fellow grade of membership on...
View ArticleMolecular “Hats” Allow In Vivo Activation of Disguised Signaling Peptides
When someone you know is wearing an unfamiliar hat, you might not recognize them. Georgia Institute of Technology researchers are using just such a disguise to sneak biomaterials containing peptide...
View ArticleBrains and Braun
The Georgia Tech football program is often lauded for placing greater emphasis on performance in the classroom than most other college programs. Even within the context of the school’s academic rigor,...
View ArticleUndergrad Student Hustles to Stay in School
Written by ME student, Kristopher Hernandez, expected graduation May 2015 Originally posted on Reddit.comI failed out of Georgia Tech. Twice.I was lucky enough to be let back in for one last chance...
View ArticleME Shines at CES
For the third year in a row, research being done by faculty and students in the Woodruff School were highlighted by Ford CEO Mark Fields in his keynote address at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show...
View ArticleGuldberg to Receive Georgia Bio Community Award
Georgia Bio each year recognizes individuals, companies and organizations for significant contributions to Georgia’s life sciences industry with its Georgia Bio Community Awards. The recipients will be...
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EducationB.S. in Electrical Engineering at the Beijing Institute of Technology, 1984M.S. in Electrical Engineering at the Beijing Institute of Technology, 1987Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the...
View ArticleYee Receives AFOSR Young Investigator Award
The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) announced that it will award approximately $16.6M in grants to scientists and engineers from 43 research institutions and small businesses who...
View ArticleWepfer Receives ASME Award, Donates Honorarium
Bill Wepfer, the recipient of the 2015 Edwin F. Church Medal, demonstrated his continued support of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and its efforts to recognize current and future...
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