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Modeling foil design after seal whiskers

Posted on March 20, 2020

By Alex Stewart A seal races after a herring twisting and darting through the water in the dead of night. The seal cannot see the fish it is chasing, but instead relies on its sensitive …

Tagged 2020, Kate Lyons, seminar

Soft robots, hard achievements

Posted on March 18, 2020

By Fan Lou Imagine a robot that is made with no rigid parts. That is what Marc Kilpack, an assistant professor from Brigham Young University, demonstrated in his presentation on soft robotics. His seminar, titled …

Tagged 2020, Marc Kilpack, seminar

Wind energy: The feasible path to sustainable energy

Posted on March 15, 2020

By Samuel Moss As the world continually seeks alternatives to large carbon footprint energy sources, the demand for efficient renewable energy continues to increase. In the United States, 7% of current energy comes from wind …

Tagged 2020, Paul Veers, seminar

Mechanical Engineering and Medicine Collide

Posted on December 18, 2019

By Charlie Chermak Have you ever been curious how asthma medication travels throughout your body or how blood flow is affected by plaque buildup in your arteries? New research in the field of fluid mechanics …

Tagged 2019, blood flow, Jenn Stroud Rossmann, seminar

Cell mechanics: Motion of the microscopic

Posted on October 28, 2019

By Hayley Raj It may be hard to imagine that the microscopic cells in our blood follow specific patterns of flow, and that this may have important physiological consequences, but Professor Mike Graham is focusing …

Tagged 2019, flow, Michael Graham, seminar

Metamaterials: From Spycraft to Infinity and Beyond

Posted on April 19, 2019

By Stephan Blanz The future is here, but if you don’t look closely, you might miss it. Dr. Igor Bargatin, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at the University of Pennsylvania is creating metamaterials …

Tagged 2019, Igor Bargatin, metamaterials, seminar

Midwest SEM Student Symposium wraps up for 2019

Posted on March 25, 2019

On March 9-10, 2019, Professors Notbohm, Thevamaran and Christian Franck co-hosted the 2019 Midwest SEM Student Symposium at the UW-Madison College of Engineering with Dr. John Considine from the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory in Madison. …

Tagged 2019, news, symposium

Less is More When it Comes to the Floor

Posted on March 1, 2019

By Madeleine Girard Would you be surprised to learn that some of the floors you have walked on may contain several large plastic “air bubbles” made from recycled materials? Would you be more surprised to …

Tagged 2019, Jose Pincheira, seminar, voided slab floor

To Mach 5 and beyond: Jack McNamara pushes the limits with hypersonic flight

Posted on December 14, 2018

By Anna Boggs Imagine being able to fly from New York to California in less time than it takes you to go to the grocery store. While it may seem like a dream, hypersonic flight …

Tagged 2018, airplane structures, Jack McNamara, seminar

Stefano Gonella steers earthquakes with LEGOs

Posted on December 5, 2018

By Daniel Reasa LEGO cylinders on a plate form a simplified model of a forest, and Prof. Stefano Gonella has experimentally shown that physical waves (analogous to earthquakes) can be guided along complex paths created …

Tagged 2018, metamaterials, seminar, Stefano Gonella
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