Hu Takes Sigma Xi Best Faculty Paper Award
Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, founded in 1886 at Cornell University, is the honor society of scientists and engineers that recognizes scientific achievement. Its mission is to enhance the...
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Forest Wins Two Faculty Honors Awards
The Faculty Honors Committee of the Faculty Senate has selected Craig Forest as the winner of two Faculty Honors awards this year.The 1940 Roane Beard Outstanding Teacher Award for his teaching...
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3 MEs are Inventure Prize Finalists
Georgia Tech’s fifth annual InVenture Prize competition announced the finalists for this year’s broadcast on Georgia Public Broadcasting March 13 at 7 p.m., including three students from the Woodruff...
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Georgia Tech Auto Show Revs Up for Its 10th Year
The Georgia Tech Auto Show was founded in 2003 by Sterling Skinner, BSME '91, MSME '95, Director of Instructional Labs for the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering. It took some pushing to get the...
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This Ain't Your Grandfather's ME Degree
Providing students with more flexibility regarding which courses they take is at the heart of the change to the mechanical engineering curriculum. The new curriculum, effective last summer, retains the...
View ArticlePassing of Former Employee and Friend, Leland Cantlebary
The Woodruff School is sad to report the passing of Leland Cantelbary on March 1. Fondly remembered as Colonel Clink, he was an Administrative Supervisor for the school from 1977 to 1984. His obituary...
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Woodruff School Graduate Program Ranks #5 in Nation
The George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering graduate program has earned its highest mark in ten years from U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings. The Woodruff School is ranked No....
View ArticleChristopher Taylor, ME senior: Inventure Prize Winner
Congratulations to Christopher Taylor, ME senior, for winninng Georgia Tech's InVenture Prize competition. Taylor took home first place for Chewbots, his invention of fully automated robotic dog toys,...
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NRC Names NRE Alumnus as Resident Inspector at Wolf Creek
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has selected Charles Peabody, BSNRE '04, as theNRC senior resident inspector at the Wolf Creek Nuclear Power Plant in Burlington, Kansas.“Charles Peabody’s background...
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ARES Security Appoints Woodruff Alumns as President
ARES Security Corporation, an enterprise security risk management solutions company, has named Ben Eazzetta (BSNE '96, MSME '97) as its President. After officially establishing the company in October...
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Georgia Tech Hosts 11th Annual CSER
The Georgia Institute of Technology will host the Conference on Systems Engineering Research (CSER) at the Georgia Tech Global Learning Center March 19-22, 2013. This year’s theme, “Addressing Societal...
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Forest and MIT Professor to Automate Patch Clamping
Craig Forest, assistant professor at the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, and Ed Boyden, associate professor at MIT Media Lab, are currently hard at work developing a technique that...
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ME Alumnus Receives Three Prestigious Awards
Dr. Calvin Mackie, STEM Leader Extraordinaire and Woodruff School alum (BME ’90, MSME ’92, PhDME ’96), recently received three highly-acclaimed awards from three top education, leadership, and...
View ArticleWelcome to the Invention Studio
Take a look at a video of the Georgia Tech Invention Studio, "a magical place," located in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering.To become a Maker, or a Sponsor, visit The Invention...
View ArticleJun Ueda to be an Advisor in New Robotics REU Program
Ayanna Howard, Motorola Foundation Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and director of the Human-Automation Systems Laboratory (HumAnS), has been awarded a National...
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5 Questions with IBB Executive Director, Bob Guldberg
You’ve probably heard that Georgia Tech has a number of Interdisciplinary Research Institutes (IRIs) – but do you know much about them? This article is the second in a series of Q&As to introduce...
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Dr. Forest's Automated Patch Clamping Excites Neuroscientists
Dr. Craig Forest, Assistant Professor of the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, and Ed Boyden, associate professor at MIT Media Lab, working with Forest's graduate student Suhasa...
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ME Professors Attend White House Event Announcing BRAIN Initiative
President Barack Obama today announced a major new commitment to fund research to map the activity of the human brain. The goal of this grand challenge project is to develop new technologies that...
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Project Will Improve Heat Dissipation in 3D Microelectronic Systems
Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have won a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contract to develop three-dimensional chip-cooling technology able to handle heat loads...
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Adhesive Differences Enable Separation of Stem Cells to Advance Potential...
A new separation process that depends on an easily-distinguished physical difference in adhesive forces among cells could help expand production of stem cells generated through cell reprogramming. By...
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