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Three college students smile for the camera while holding up a homemade mechanical toy vehicle shaped like a piece of pizza.
Mechanical Engineering
First-year engineers' minicars battle it out on racetrack
Published Dec 9, 2025
Mechanical Engineering's annual first-year design competition displayed a vast array of automobiles
an astrocyte on the novel nanowire platform
Mechanical engineering
Nanowire breakthrough reveals brain's unsung heroes
Published Nov 24, 2025
Platform studies elusive astrocytes, the brain's most abundant and mysterious cells, responsible for regulating communication between neurons and helping to maintain the blood-brain barrier
Beer labels for Blind Spot
Mechanical engineering
A touching beer story
Published Fall 2025
Students at Johns Hopkins' Whiting School of Engineering design a printer capable of punching braille text into beer labels and more / Johns Hopkins Magazine
From left, Victor Ticllacuri, Yuxuan Bai, and Nitish Thakor pose in front of a poster display for their invention at WSE Design Day 2025. Nitish Thakor is holding a lifelike baby doll, used to demonstrate their invention
Biomedical engineering
Students win top prize for novel neonatal care device
Published Sept 19, 2025
A device created by Johns Hopkins engineering students to help infants with nerve injuries wins top honor at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Innovation Showcase
Ishan Barman
Mechanical engineering
New quantum sensors can detect faint molecular vibrations 
Published Aug 25, 2025
A team of Johns Hopkins engineers has developed a new, more powerful method to observe molecular vibrations, an advance that could have far-reaching implications for early disease detection
Sunset cliffs natural park in San Diego, California, a beach with a sandstone cliff and city buildings in the background
Mechanical engineering
3D X-ray study reveals how rock grains move and stress builds
Published Aug 21, 2025
For the first time, scientists watched sandstone deform from the inside out, grain by grain, revealing insights that could predict earthquakes and improve oil and gas reservoirs
Four women stand behind a braille printer
Mechanical engineering
Students create braille printer for local nonprofit
Published June 26, 2025
Engineering students built a braille printer to be operated by blind and visually impaired workers in Baltimore
Students play games at the Spring Freshman Design arcade
Mechanical engineering
No quarters—or movie tickets—required
Published April 23, 2025
Mechanical engineering students reimagine 1980s films as arcade games
Vicky Nguyen
Research matters
Sight-saving treatments for glaucoma
Published March 21, 2025
Hopkins engineer Vicky Nguyen has spent 15 years studying how glaucoma progresses to figure out how to preserve patients' vision
Jeff Wang
Research matters
These portable diagnostics go where labs can't
Published Feb 27, 2025 Video
Federal funding supports engineer Jeff Wang's work to create affordable devices that expand access to health care, leading to faster diagnosis and better health outcomes