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Optimizing the human-robot workplace
ӰƵ team part of a multi-university, international study of how machines and mankind will collaborate more in ‘smart factories’ of the future ӰƵ engineers are working with partners at two other universities and an Italian-owned company in Michigan to st...
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First flight success
ӰƵ innovation powers longer flight time for drone-sized electric aircraft, looks toward all-electric regional jets of future If fully electric regional passenger jets someday fly from Cleveland to Atlanta, aviation historians will likely point out that the first success...
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Engineering’s Umut Gurkan wins 2018 Patents for Humanity Honorable Mention for hemoglobin scanner
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently announced the winners of its 2018 Patents for Humanity program, an initiative promoting game-changing innovations to address long-standing development challenges. Umut Gurkan, the Warren E. Rupp Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aer...
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Electric vehicles: Shades of 'green?'
ӰƵ researchers show that environmental benefits of electric vehicles vary widely in first state-by-state ranking Exactly how environmentally friendly electric vehicles (EVs) are as alternative to fuel-burning vehicles may actually depend on where you live, according to a new study ...
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Flying Taxicabs?
CWRU researcher working with NASA, other partners to build small, battery-powered aircraft in next several years Need to catch a fast ride from Cleveland to Pittsburgh? Get ready to hail your first “air taxi”—and maybe sooner than you think. Vikas Prakash, a ӰƵ professo...
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Engineering’s Rajib Paul, Liming Dai published in National Science Review
Rajib Paul, senior research associate in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Liming Dai, the Kent Hale Smith Professor in the Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, had their paper titled “Carbon-based supercapacitors for efficient energy storage” published in ...
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Simon "Si" Ostrach, extraordinary engineering mind, avid supporter of wrestling program, passes away
Simon “Si” Ostrach, who ultimately became “a giant in the field,” had no idea what engineering was when he graduated high school. Simon "Si" Ostrach “I came from Eastern European people, and the anticipation was that you’re going to be a physician or a teacher or maybe an attorney,” he said in an...
ӰƵ researchers design soft, flexible origami-inspired robot
Envision applications in manufacturing, medicine and space A ӰƵ researcher has turned the origami she enjoyed as a child into a patent-pending soft robot that may one day be used on an assembly line, in surgery or even outer space. Kiju Lee, the Nord Distinguished Assis...
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Engineering’s Chris Yuan wins first place in national research competition
Chris Yuan, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, won first place in the Reusable Abstractions of Manufacturing Processes national research competition. The National Institute of Standards and Technology, National Science Foundation, American Society of Testing and Materials ...
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Three ӰƵ faculty awarded NSF CAREER grants
Three ӰƵ junior faculty members have received National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grants, totaling nearly $1.7 million. The five-year grants support research into: Movements of nanoparticles through confined spaces, with applications...