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 …
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Cell mechanics: Motion of the microscopic
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 …
Metamaterials: From Spycraft to Infinity and Beyond
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 …
Midwest SEM Student Symposium wraps up for 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. …
Less is More When it Comes to the Floor
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 …