Recent News

10/07/2019

‘Picoscience’ and a plethora of new materials

Department: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

The revolutionary tech discoveries of the next few decades, the ones that will change daily life, may come from new materials so small they make nanomaterials look like lumpy behemoths.

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09/09/2019

Andrew Reardon '21 Wins NASA Connecticut Space Grant

Department: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

For a proposal that would reduce the amount of time that astronauts spend outside of their spacecraft, Andrew Reardon ‘21 has won a NASA Connecticut Space Grant Consortium (CTSGC) Undergraduate...

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08/28/2019

Yale Graduate Student Chapter of Society of Women Engineers Receives National Award

Department: Biomedical Engineering, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

The SWE Graduate Community would like to recognize GradSWE at Yale University with a GradSWE Established Group Award for their long-standing commitment to the SWE Core Value of Inclusive...

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08/27/2019

New Dean of SEAS Addresses New Students (and potential engineering majors)

Department: Biomedical Engineering, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

From a diverse set of studies to great resources like the Center for Engineering Innovation and Design (CEID), SEAS Dean Jeffrey Brock gave students from the Class of 2023 an overview of what they...

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08/08/2019

Study to Examine Human-Robot Collaboration to Reduce Recycling ‘Bottleneck’

Department: Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Last year China announced that it would reject almost all recyclables imported from other countries due in part to the amount of "impurities" — or non-recyclable materials — in the waste that then...

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08/06/2019

D.A. Pennebaker '47, Engineering Pioneer of Cinema

Department: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

If you’ve seen “Dont Look Back,” the documentary about Bob Dylan’s 1965 tour of England, you likely remember the famous opening sequence featuring the “Subterranean Homesick Blues.” While it plays...

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08/01/2019

Finally, A Robot that Moves Kind of Like a Tongue

Department: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Your tongue is super weird, which is fine because mine is too. Even though it lacks supporting bones, it can move in all sorts of directions because it’s a “muscular hydrostat”: Fluid is...

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07/15/2019

Treating childhood autism one robot at a time

Department: Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Parents can be resistant to hearing that their child faces a challenging health diagnosis. But when Thomas Leaf and Emanuela Palmares learned that their son Caio has autism spectrum disorder (ASD...

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07/12/2019

Scratching the surface: Metallic glass implants

Department: Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Artificial joints, blood-vessel stents, bone screws, and other implanted objects—crucial tools to help patients—carry risks related to the materials they're made of. Valves and stents, for example...

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07/11/2019

Xia, Kramer-Bottiglio Honored with Presidential Award in Science and Technology

Department: Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Yale Engineering faculty members Fengnian Xia and Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio have been named recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).

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07/10/2019

Engineering Innovation

Department: Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Maddy O'Neal held a shiny titanium screw in her hand while studying a computer model of the device on the screen in front of her, looking for potential weaknesses once the screw is put in someone'...

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07/01/2019

Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio Brings Robotic Skins to Jeff Bezos' Elite MARS Conference

Department: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Within the span of two days, Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio presented her technology to a high-caliber audience that included Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, traded ideas with top researchers from around the...

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06/21/2019

With Grant, Researchers Take Atomic-Scale Look at Metallic Glasses

Department: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) have unusual and potentially very valuable properties. But so much is still unknown about how they form and behave that researchers have not been able to take full...

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06/20/2019

Ahn appointed Malone Professor

Department: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Charles H. Ahn, recently named as the John C. Malone Professor, focuses his research on the fabrication and characterization of the physical properties of materials using advanced synthesis and...

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05/21/2019

Congratulations to the SEAS Class of 2019!

Department: Biomedical Engineering, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Members of the Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science community celebrated the awarding of 225 undergraduate Engineering degrees on May 20, 2019.

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