What is the Unit of Your Future? It's ME!
This is the time of year when high school seniors and their parents are agonizing over their choice of a college or university. We believe that we have among the very best undergraduate mechanical, as...
View ArticleErturk to Receive ASME Gary Anderson Early Achievement Award
Alper Erturk has been named the 2015 recipient of the ASME Gary Anderson Early Achievement Award. This prize is awarded to "a young researcher in his or her ascendancy whose work has already had an...
View ArticlePucha to Receive GT CETL Award
Raghuram Pucha has been selected by the Georgia Tech Center for the Enhancement of Teaching & Learning (CETL) awards committee to be a recipient of this year's Geoffrey G. Eichholz Faculty Teaching...
View ArticleBack to the Future with Remote Driving
What if someone could control your car remotely? Dr. Bert Bras and students work on this technology with Ford Motor Company. Watch this video to view technology that may soon allow consumers to "drive"...
View ArticleAlumna Promoted to USNA Professor
Jennelle Piepmeier (PhD ME '99) was recently promoted to (Full) Professor at the United States Naval Academy (USNA), to be effective mid-August. Dr. Piepmeier was a graduate student in the Woodruff...
View ArticleME Undergrad & Team Take Home Inventure Prize
Georgia Tech students, Scott Schroer (mechanical engineering), Will Sweet (business administration), and Alex Roe (computer science), invented the FlameTech Grill Defender. It's a safety device for gas...
View ArticleME Alumni, Coca-Cola Freestyle Winning Formula
If the curvy, racy red Coca-Cola Freestyle drink dispenser reminds you of a Ferrari, it’s with good reason. Their sleek-and-stylish exteriors are both designed by Pininfarina, the legendary Italian...
View ArticleME Undergrad Wins Ultimate Haier Achievement Award
Alex Grady, a sophomore on the Georgia Tech men's cross country and track and field teams, has been voted the first-ever recipient of the Ultimate Haier Achievement Award, which is presented to...
View ArticleUndergrads Win Top Prize in NASA Video Contest
Aida Yoguely Cortes-Pena and Kristopher Hernandez, Woodruff School undergraduate students, were top winners in the 2014 Humans in Space Art Video Challenge, a contest in partnership with NASA. The two...
View ArticlePucha Honored by Georgia Tech's CETL
Georgia Tech's Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL), founded in 1986, provides “development, assessment, and support” to “enhance the teaching and learning environment.”...
View ArticleThomas Gets Komen Grant
Susan Thomas, Assistant Professor, was recently awarded a three-year, $450,000 grant from the Susan G. Komen Foundation.The grant – the first Komen award to the Georgia Institute of Technology – will...
View ArticleAlmost 200 Teams Particpate in Largest Capstone Design Expo Ever
The Capstone Design Expo has become the largest academic event on the campus calendar and perfectly sums up what Georgia Tech is all about - students using hands-on knowledge to tackle real world...
View Article7 ME Students Earn NSF Graduate Fellowships
This year, seven Woodruff School students earned graduate research fellowships from the National Science Foundation (NSF), including three undergraduates: Shantonio Birch, Samuel Cruz, and Max...
View ArticleGrad Student Received Stewardship Science Graduate Fellowship
Christopher Miller, Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering graduate student, received a Stewardship Science Graduate Fellowship (SSGF) sponsored by the Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear...
View ArticleParallel Targets
There are an estimated 120 million people in the developing world with lymphatic filariasis, a painful disease that often leads to lymphedema. Once a parasitic filiarial worm called Brugia malayi is...
View ArticleAlumnus Honored for Impact on African American Students
Dr. Calvin Mackie, award-winning engineer, internationally-renowned motivational STEM speaker, successful entrepreneur, and bestselling author was honored with The College Board’s 2015 Dr. Asa G....
View ArticleUnseen Machines
At Georgia Tech, more than 20 research teams focus on MEMS-related research and development.MEMS, or microelectromechanical systems, are devices that operate on a very small size scale, on the order of...
View ArticlePower Up
Researchers have made significant strides in new energy generation technologies. Yet, before renewable sources can make a significant contribution to our energy supply, similar strides will be needed...
View ArticleHyTech Racing = High Tech Design
The Georgia Tech HyTech Racing team competed in the Formula Hybrid Electric competition this year on April 27-30 at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, NH. This was the first time Georgia Tech...
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