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Mechanical engineering

Rishibrata Biswas
Mechanical engineering
For engineering students, classes are an at-home design challenge
Published April 28, 2020
Teaching engineering design during COVID-19 is a tricky business—but professors are retooling projects to give students hands-on design experiences at home
An engineer works on a snake robot
Robotics
Slithering snakes help engineers learn how to build better robots
Published Feb 18, 2020
Mechanical engineers design a snake robot based on the climbing technique of the kingsnake that could help advance search-and-rescue technology
Students participate in Hopkins annual
Mechanical engineering
Students navigate the ups and downs of engineering design
Published Dec 6, 2019
First-year students vie to see whose glider will soar to victory in annual design competition
SJ Claire Hur
Q+A
Engineering better breast cancer diagnosis and treatment
Published Oct 4, 2019
Mechanical engineer SJ Claire Hur is working to develop a device that collects tumor cells from blood samples, enabling scientists to develop and test personalized treatment plans
Collage of an infant and biomedical device drawings
Printing in 4D
Published Summer 2019
Engineers develop origami-inspired implants that grow along with the patient over time / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Illustration of a guitar player
New cool tools
Rock on—just not too hard
Published Summer 2019
SmartGuitar prototype prevents injury by telling musicians when they exert too much force on the strings / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Mini-golfers play putt-putt
Mechanical engineering
Putt-putt in paradise
Published May 1, 2019
Engineering students build high-tech miniature golf course with a tropical flair for Spring Fair
Illustration of space elevator and human tissue
We're one step closer to building an elevator to space
Published Spring 2019
Biology inspires the technology that could allow scientists to build an elevator to space / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Asteroid
Breaking up asteroids is hard to do
Published March 4, 2019
Scientists model scenarios for breaking up or interrupting the path of asteroids on a collision course with Earth
Students participate in mechanical engineering design competition
Mechanical engineering
An on-ramp to creative design
Published Dec 11, 2018
First-year mechanical engineering students take their design skills for a spin in annual competition