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A male student sets up a wooden vehicle on a wooden ramp
Mechanical engineering
Student designs take flight
Published Dec 9, 2024
At the 2024 MechE Freshmen Design Challenge, 22 teams of first-year mechanical engineering students showed off their small vehicle designs in a fun competition
An air taxi prototype
3 questions
FAA clears path for air taxis, but is the technology ready?
Published Oct 25, 2024
Johns Hopkins aerospace engineer Jaafar El-Awady explains why flying vehicles are far from replacing ground transportation
Research Peng Zheng shows off the heart of the blood test, chip with a groundbreaking nanostructured surface on which blood is tested.
Medical innovation
Rapid detection of early heart attack warning signs
Published Oct 16, 2024
With heart attacks, every second counts. A Hopkins team developed a blood test that diagnoses them in minutes rather than hours and could be adapted as a tool for first responders and people at home.
An engineer in a black shirt works on a large red machine.
Mechanical engineering
Smashing rocks for science
Published Aug 30, 2024
Hopkins team uses X-ray technology to observe what occurs when the top layer of an asteroid-like object is hit with extreme external force
Photograph of Rui Ni
Mechanical engineering
Mechanical engineering professor wins grant to fund turbulence research
Published Aug 22, 2024
Rui Ni receives $1.25M Moore Foundation grant to explore how chaotic air movement in storms influences the formation and behavior of lightning
Yun Chen
Faculty honors
Mechanical engineer Yun Chen among inaugural recipients of NSF award
Published Aug 9, 2024
Three-year, $3M Trailblazer Engineering Impact Award will support Chen's research applying the rules of quantum mechanics to control how cells behave
pastel-colored paper cranes arranged on a white background
Mechanical engineering
New imaging technique could diagnose cancer metastasis
Published July 18, 2024
Johns Hopkins engineers have created an optical tool combining laser light and folded DNA to help clinicians distinguish between localized and metastatic cancers
The peloton with the best climber jersey on the ascent of the Tourmalet during stage 6 of the Tour de France 2023
Mechanical engineering
Surprising similarities between fish, pro cyclists
Published July 9, 2024
Research reveals fish swim in schools to save energy, just like cyclists in a Tour de France peloton
Four Johns Hopkins University students hold up leaf blowers on a quad
Engineering
Students invent quieter leaf blower
Published May 14, 2024
Patent-pending design by Hopkins undergrads could be available in stores within two years
Four students showcase their invention
Mechanical engineering
Students aim to take the bite out of noisy dental drills
Published April 29, 2024
Mechanical engineering majors at Johns Hopkins created a device that dampens the din of dental drills during procedures