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05/18/2020

Ben Weiss: Social Work, Bakeries, and Robots

Department: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Ben Weiss has been busy these past four years - he danced with Yale Danceworks all eight semesters, served as a First-Year Counselor (FroCo), and cooked for the student-run restaurant Yale Pop Up...

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05/18/2020

2020 Grad Spotlight: Lauren Chapey

Department: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

For commencement week, we’re featuring some of the students from the SEAS Class of 2020. Today, we feature Lauren Chapey, who majored in Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science:...

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04/27/2020

Karato Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Department: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Seven Yale faculty members are among the artists, intellectuals, and prominent leaders newly elected as members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for innovative accomplishments in their...

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04/24/2020

Remotely, Ventilator Device and Other Projects Continue On

Department: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

The course Computer-Aided Design (MENG 400), taught by Ronald Adrezin, involves a fair amount of hands-on work. Although the class operated remotely the second half of the semester when the campus...

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04/23/2020

Small but Critical Ventilator Parts Run Low, so Researchers Make Their Own

Department: Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

The need for ventilators in response to COVID-19 has been well publicized, but the single-use parts that comprise these machines has also been running critically low in hospitals. To ensure that...

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04/15/2020

CHIME: How Yale's Engineers and Doctors are Innovating to Combat COVID-19

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

The COVID-19 crisis has put a significant strain on the U.S. healthcare system and the availability of essential personal protective equipment (PPE) for healthcare workers. The Coalition for...

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04/09/2020

With an Urgent Need, Researchers Develop Multi-Patient Ventilators

Department: Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Shuttered labs and social distancing haven’t gotten in the way of two research teams’ efforts to create a ventilator capable of treating multiple patients.

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04/03/2020

To Relieve a Critical Shortage, a Way to Test Face Masks

Department: Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

With certified face masks at a critical shortage, a team of researchers at the School of Engineering & Applied Science are developing a system to test the reliability of non-standard face...

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04/01/2020

Switching from Robots to Ventilators: How a Class Responds to Covid-19

Department: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

When students in Mechatronics (MENG 390) left for spring break, they expected to begin work on two-wheeled balancing robots upon their return. When classes resumed, though, their end-of the-...

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03/26/2020

Yale Experts Pool Resources, Skills to Increase Covid-19 Medical Supplies

Department: Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

From computer simulations of new medical technology durability to simplified PPE designs for mass production, a coalition drawing on expertise from across the university is working to help provide...

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03/20/2020

Maintaining Lab Continuity in the Time of COVID-19

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

When Yale took the necessary step of moving classes online to mitigate the spread of Covid-19, it presented a particular challenge for courses that focus on building complex devices and other...

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03/12/2020

Ahn Named Materials Research Society Fellow

Department: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Charles Ahn, the John C. Malone Professor of Applied Physics, Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science and Physics, has been named a fellow of the Materials Research Society (MRS).

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03/10/2020

How You Look at a Protein Can Change Its Structure

Department: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

The most common way to get a picture of the atomic structures of a protein might actually cause a change in the protein’s structure, a team of researchers discovered.

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03/09/2020

Robots that admit mistakes foster better conversation in humans

Department: Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Three people and a robot form a team playing a game. The robot makes a mistake, costing the team a round. Like any good teammate, it acknowledges the error.
"Sorry, guys, I made the mistake...

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03/05/2020

A New Way to Make Robotic Sensors, Based on How the Body Heals Itself

Department: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Inspired by the body’s natural wound-healing process, Yale robotics researchers have developed a safer and quicker way to manufacture sensors onto soft, deformable structures.

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