Major in mechanical engineering

Graduate degrees in mechanical engineering

Mechanical Engineering Highlights

• Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor Jun Zhang is working on a new type of soft, flexible “muscle” for robots, called a coiled string actuator. The National Science Foundation is supporting this work with a $300,000, three-year grant. The project, “Modeling, Self-Sensing, and Control of Novel Coiled String Actuators with Application to Compliant Manipulation,” could help create more advanced and compact robots that move more like living things.
• Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor Floris van Breugel is one of the principal investigators in a research project that could ultimately lead to new ways to treat brain problems such as Tourette’s syndrome and Parkinson’s disease. The National Institutes of Health is supporting this work with a $1.2 million grant awarded w88 casino games loginin 2024. The project, “The Functional Role and Neural Basis of Rapid Turns in Olfactory Search Behavior,” is headed by California Institute of Technology Professor Michael Dickinson. University of Washington Professor Bingni Wen Brunton also is a principal investigator on the project.

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