Tiny Magnetic Particles Enable New Material to Bend, Twist, and Grab
A team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and The Ohio State University has developed a soft polymer material, called magnetic shape memory polymer, that uses magnetic fields to...
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Remembering Professor Emeritus, Narl Davidson
It is with sadness that I pass along that Professor Emeritus Narl Davidson passed away on Dec 12, 2019. Narl came to Georgia Tech in 1973 from Texas A&M and spent the rest of his illustrious...
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Building A Drivable Couch
It all started out as a bit of a challenge — linked to the Grassroots Motorsports Magazine $2000 Challenge.“We’ve always taken a couch with us to racing competitions. It just gives us somewhere to sit...
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Remembering Professor Emeritus, Narl Davidson
It is with sadness that I pass along that Professor Emeritus Narl Davidson passed away on Dec 12, 2019. Narl came to Georgia Tech in 1973 from Texas A&M and spent the rest of his illustrious...
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Top VIP Prizes go to ME-led Teams
Teams led by assistant professor Aaron Young and assistant professor W. Hong Yeo from the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering earned three awards at the recent Georgia Tech VIP...
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Erturk Promoted to SPIE Fellow
Prof. Alper Erturk has been elected to the grade of Fellow of SPIE (The International Society for Optics and Photonics) for his "achievements in nonlinear energy harvesting, bio-inspired piezoelectric...
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Memories of Narl Davidson
After learning of the passing of Professor Emeritus Narl Davidson in December, colleagues who knew him shared reflections on what it was like to work with him and the impact they made on him, whether...
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2020 Gegenheimer Trailblazer Lecture Series
On Monday, February 17, the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering will have the privilege of hosting Nobel Laureate, Professor Hiroshi Amano from Nagoya University in Japan as he delivers...
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Wepfer Design Commons Dedicated
On Friday, January 17, 2020, alumni, donors, faculty, staff, and students gathered outside of the Flowers Invention Studio to honor Dr. Bill Wepfer for his years of service and celebrate the completion...
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Undergraduates Selected for 2020 Brooke Owens Fellowship
Mechanical engineering majors Olivia Plumb and Kinjal Ruecker have been selected to receive a 2020 Brooke Owens Fellowship. Established in 2017, the Brooke Owens Fellowship annually recognizes...
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The Incredible Potential of Soft Robots
By Polly OuelletteSoft, squishy, squeezable. These aren’t words usually associated with robots. Nevertheless, soft robotics is a growing field in which engineers are building bendable machines with...
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Former Student-Athlete and ME Professor Cola Named Faculty Athletics...
President Ángel Cabrera has named Baratunde Cola, professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering, as the next faculty athletics representative (FAR) to the Georgia Tech Athletic Association.The FAR...
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Emerging Leaders Lecture Series Announced
The Woodruff School is excited to announce the inaugural Emerging Leaders Lecture Series. This lecture series will bring talented underrepresented minority senior Ph.D. students, postdocs, recent...
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Flickering Light Mobilizes Brain Chemistry That May Fight Alzheimer’s
For over a century, Alzheimer’s disease has confounded all attempts to treat it. But in recent years, perplexing experiments using flickering light have shown promise.Now, researchers have tapped into...
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Four Georgia Tech Faculty Elected to National Academy of Engineering
Four Georgia Institute of Technology faculty members have been elected as new members of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Marilyn Brown, Thomas Kurfess, Susan Margulies, and Alexander Shapiro...
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Professor Yuhang Hu receives 2019 Extreme Mechanics Letters (EML) Young...
Yuhang Hu, Assistant Professor in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, has been named a recipient of the 2019 Extreme Mechanics Letters (EML) Young...
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