Recent News

06/28/2018

Kramer-Bottiglio Selected to Participate in NAE’s 2018 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium

Department: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio, assistant professor of mechanical engineering & materials science, is one of 84 of the nation’s brightest young engineers who have been selected to take part in the...

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06/20/2018

Roboticists from the Northeast Convene at Yale to Trade Ideas

Department: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

The 2018 New England Manipulation Symposium held last week at Yale, bringing together more than 130 participants from the Northeast - the event’s highest attendance yet.

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06/15/2018

Prof. Corey O'Hern Running Workshop on Jamming in Biological Systems

Department: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Corey O’Hern, associate professor of mechanical engineering & materials science, physics, and applied physics, is organizing a two-week summer program, “Jamming in Biological Systems.”
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06/06/2018

Corey O’Hern Wins Ackerman Award for Teaching and Mentoring

Department: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

One of things Corey O’Hern emphasizes to his students is that when they’re working on a problem, they’re doing it as a team.

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05/25/2018

Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio and team awarded for soft robot that can carry its own power supply

Department: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

For their work on a soft robotic system that can lift more than 200 times its weight, Adam Bilodeau, Prof. Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio, and two collaborators at Columbia University were recently...

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05/22/2018

Congratulations to the Class of 2018!

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 192 undergraduate Engineering degrees on May 21, 2018.

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05/09/2018

Afghanistan robotics team meets Yale mentors

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

The all-female Afghanistan robotics team visited the Yale Center for Engineering Innovation and Design (CEID) on Monday, where they met the three Yale students helping them prepare for this summer...

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04/26/2018

Corey O'Hern Wins DoD Grant to Study Grain Movement

Department: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

For his work on how sediment moves, Corey O’Hern, associate professor of mechanical engineering & materials science, physics, and applied physics, has been awarded a Defense University...

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04/16/2018

Cha receives NSF CAREER Award to explore renewable hydrogen

Department: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Judy Cha, the Carol and Douglas Melamed Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, has received a Faculty Early Career Development Program – CAREER – Award...

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04/04/2018

Engineering meets the arts with Michelangelo’s ‘David’

Department: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Students in "Introduction to Engineering Innovation & Design" course spend half a semester putting their new engineering skills to work for other members of the Yale community. This team...

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03/26/2018

Aaron Dollar Invited to Jeff Bezos' Exclusive Innovations Conference

Department: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Aaron Dollar, associate professor of mechanical engineering & materials science, was among the attendees last week at Mars, an exclusive three-day conference organized by Amazon founder Jeff...

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03/19/2018

New Clues to How Metallic Glasses Form

Department: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

For millennia, people have used molten sand and other ingredients to create a vast array of traditional glass products, including beads, vessels, lenses and windows.

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03/12/2018

Engineering and Theater Meet in "Fun Home"

Department: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

As producer of the musical “Fun Home,” Sydney Garick found a way to bring engineering and theater together. In the weeks leading up to the show, she encouraged many of the show’s cast and crew to...

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03/07/2018

Aeronautica Showcases Aerospace Club's Progress

Department: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Rockets, planes and more were all on display Tuesday at Aeronautica, the annual showcase of the Yale Undergraduate Aerospace Association (YUAA).

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02/20/2018

Research zeroes in on transmembrane protein structure

Department: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

A new Yale study shows that the structures of the three major classes of proteins are surprisingly similar.

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