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mechanical engineering

Mom Annetta and the V-LINC team smile with Rosie, who is seated in her walker, and her twin sister, Georgia
Mechanical engineering
Custom Christmas gift
Published Dec 21, 2017 Video
A group of Hopkins students have a special gift just in time for Christmas for a 2-year-old with a rare genetic disorder
A group of people all gaze up into a spiral staircase
Design challenge
Ready to launch
Published Dec 7, 2017
Annual competition challenges mechanical engineering students to build a device to launch a foam football
Student-built ramp for Ping-Pong ball challenge
Engineering
Ping-Pong problem-solving
Published Oct 4, 2017 Video
First-year biomedical engineering students (plus a T. rex) tackle design challenge
Blue-green circuit board closeuo
Materials science
A super-strong silicon alternative?
Published June 28, 2017
Hopkins team creates durable alloy that could be key to next tech frontier
A robot pauses in front of a bright green plastic ball
Mechanical engineering
See bots run
Published May 18, 2017
Students design next generation robots that play chess, catch balls, leap over obstacles, work together
Smiling mother crouches next to her son in stroller
Engineering solutions
Care, customized
Published April 24, 2017
Budding engineers at Johns Hopkins design, build lightweight stroller for Syrian boy with special needs
Faculty honors
Nine selected for AIMBE College of Fellows
Published March 20, 2017
Members are considered among the top two percent of the country's medical and biological engineers
National Engineers Week
Pasta power
Published Feb 22, 2017
Annual 'Tower of Power' competition challenges challenges teams to aim higher with spaghetti, marshmallow structures
Mechanical engineering
Sneak peek at a future in science
Published Feb 14, 2017
Sixth-graders from three West Baltimore schools tour JHU's mechanical engineering labs
A student demonstrates his claw's grabbing ability
Get a grip
Submersible science
Published Jan 27, 2017
Baltimore sixth-graders create underwater robot claws with help from Hopkins mentors