News Archive
Wagoner Johnson named Department Head in CIMED
December 9, 2019 - MechSE professor Amy Wagoner Johnson will lead the Department of Biomedical and Translational Sciences.
Alleyne elected AAAS Fellow
December 8, 2019 - MechSE’s Andrew Alleyne is one of just eight professors at Illinois elected 2019 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Troutner makes Forbes list
December 6, 2019 - MechSE alumnus Jason Troutner (BSME ’16) has made the Forbes "30 Under 30" list for 2020.
Water from air? Researchers look to the beetle
December 4, 2019 - MechSE graduate student Fan Kiat Chan discusses this ambitious advance in Science magazine.
van der Zande one of eight Illinois researchers ranked among world’s most influential
November 22, 2019 - For the second year in a row, Arend van der Zande made Clarivate's list of Highly Cited Researchers, a global list of the world's researchers who produced the most influential papers.
AI could have electricity-level impact
November 21, 2019 - MechSE research associate professor Seid Koric says artificial intelligence will touch "every corner of life."
Smith’s theory of pore-scale transport to enable improved flow batteries
November 20, 2019 - Kyle Smith published the sole paper from an Illinois researcher in a focus issue of the Journal of the Electrochemical Society in honor of Illinois' Richard Alkire, professor emeritus of the ChBE Department.
Dunn awarded by ASME for contributions to field of tribology
November 15, 2019 - Dunn won the 2019 Burt L. Newkirk Award for “first-of-their-kind contributions to the understanding of soft-soft interface lubrication by interpreting the slip interface through poroelastic mechanics and complex fluid mechanics.”
Graphene: The more you bend it, the softer it gets
November 14, 2019 - New research by engineers at Illinois combines atomic-scale experimentation with computer modeling to determine how much energy it takes to bend multilayer graphene – a question that has eluded scientists since graphene was first isolated. The findings are reported in the journal Nature Materials.
"Wired In" with João Ramos
November 13, 2019 - João Ramos is the latest MechSE researcher to be featured in the News-Gazette's "Wired In" tech and science column.
Matlack named sole Illinois recipient of Air Force young investigator award
November 13, 2019 - Katie Matlack was the only winner from Illinois this year of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research's competitive Young Investigator Program award.
M.Eng.ME program names faculty director, enhances curriculum
November 10, 2019 - The M.Eng.ME program now has its own dedicated faculty director in Teaching Assistant Professor Jiajun He.
Lu MEB progress photos: Slideshow 3
November 7, 2019 - Take an up-close look as the Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building is transformed.
MechSE names first four teaching faculty
November 7, 2019 - New appointments for Bruce Flachsbart, Jiajun He, Blake Johnson, and Leon Liebenberg may bring multiple benefits for the department.
Argonne and Illinois to fuel further technology development
November 4, 2019 - MechSE professor Petros Sofronis will head the new coalition.
Human reflexes keep two-legged robot upright
October 31, 2019 - MechSE's newest professor, João Ramos, along with MIT researchers, developed a small-scale bipedal robot with quick, humanlike reflexes and which is guided by a person from a remote location who feels the same physical forces the robot is experiencing.
NSF/NIH Cyber-Physical Systems grants $1M+ to bring about adaptive electrosurgery
October 28, 2019 - Professor Joseph Bentsman will lead a multidisciplinary team with a $1M grant to develop a fundamental scientific basis and novel configurations for autonomous robotic electrosurgery. The team includes MechSE Professors Martin Ostoja-Starzewski and Leonardo Chamorro, among others.
Graphene surface tuning could enable wearable, stretchable technologies
October 28, 2019 - Postdoc Jangyup Son and his advisor, Arend van der Zande, have opened a world of possibilities by discovering a method of using chemical functionalization to tune and pattern graphene’s surface properties.
Kirigami inspires new method for wearable sensors
October 28, 2019 - SungWoo Nam and his graduate student, Keong Yong, successfully applied kirigami architectures to graphene, an ultra-thin material, to create sensors suitable for wearable devices.