Manufacturing the Best at the Montgomery Machining Mall
The Montgomery Machining Mall (MMM) in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering (ME) is the largest machining facility at Georgia Tech. Since it opened in 2016, it has served as a space for...
View ArticleWhen Human Expertise Improves the Work of Machines
Professor Nazanin Bassiri-Gharb and Ph.D. Candidate Lee Griffin discuss the electromechanical amplitude response of a single crystal as acquired by a modified atomic force microscope (i.e., a...
View ArticleWhiteman Lands Two Classes on MOOC Top 100 List
Massive open online courses, or MOOCs, give people around the world access to high-quality educational videos for free, and according to Class Central, two of the top 100 MOOCs in the world are...
View ArticlePh.D. Grad Turns Machine Learning Research into Startup
Ph. D. graduate David Montes De Oca Zapiain didn’t plan to be an entrepreneur, but a great experience in Georgia Tech’s TI:GER program encouraged him to turn his research into a business plan that he...
View ArticleStretchable Wireless Sensor Could Monitor Healing of Cerebral Aneurysms
A wireless sensor small enough to be implanted in the blood vessels of the human brain could help clinicians evaluate the healing of aneurysms — bulges that can cause death or serious injury if they...
View ArticleNew Faculty Spotlight: Sourabh Saha
Assistant professor Sourabh Saha joined the Woodruff School this summer and is still getting settled in as he adjusts to life on campus in the heart of Atlanta. In this Q&A he talks about his path...
View ArticleErickson Talks Chernobyl on Dean's Podcast
The 2019 award-winning HBO miniseries Chernobyl tells the story of the 1986 nuclear plant explosion which took the lives of 28 workers and inflicted radiation symptoms on approximately 3.5 million...
View ArticleUndergraduate Program Third in 2020 U.S. News and World Report Rankings
For the fifth consecutive year, the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering's undergraduate program at Georgia Tech is ranked in the top three in the nation. The 2020 rankings by the U.S....
View ArticleFormer Georgia Tech President Peterson Granted Emeritus Status
The Board of Regents (BOR) of the University System of Georgia voted yesterday to name G.P. “Bud” Peterson President Emeritus as well as Regents Professor of Mechanical Engineering for the standard...
View ArticleWoodruff School Students Honored at Prestigious Fellowship Breakfast
On Wednesday, September 11, 2019, a breakfast was held to honor prestigious fellowship award winners from within the College of Engineering. Woodruff School students from the mechanical engineering,...
View ArticleGarcía Reflects on First Year As IBB Executive Director
When Andrés García assumed his role as executive director of the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience in August 2018, he faced the usual challenges that wait for every new leader of an...
View ArticleWearable Brain-Machine Interface Could Control a Wheelchair, Vehicle or Computer
Test subject who has flexible wireless electronics conformed to the back of the neck, with dry hair electrodes under a fabric headband and a membrane electrode on the mastoid, connected with thin-film...
View ArticleImproving Quality of Life with Wearable Robotics
Aaron Young and Greg Sawicki in their lab spaceAaron Young and Greg Sawicki approach robotics from different angles, but they share the same goal- they want to develop wearable robotic devices that can...
View Article3D Printing Technique Accelerates Nanoscale Fabrication a Thousandfold
Using a new time-based method to control light from an ultrafast laser, researchers have developed a nanoscale 3D printing technique that can fabricate tiny structures a thousand times faster than...
View ArticleME Students Discuss Startup on Dean's Podcast
Aerodyme began as a Capstone Senior design project in the spring of 2019. Now the startup is taking preorders for it's innovative device designed to reduce drag on tractor trailers by more than 10%,...
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