mechanical engineering

Award-winning device harvests energy from railway track vibrations

Nanotech Device Mimics Dog’s Nose to Detect Explosives

Hopping Robots Conserve Energy

Iowa State researchers double down on heat to break up cellulose, produce fuels and power

VIDEO: Automatic building mapping could help emergency responders

Researchers engineer light-activated skeletal muscle

Wheels of CHANGE

Mechanical engineers develop an ‘intelligent co-pilot’ for cars

Caption:MIT-engineered device injects drug without needles, delivering a high-velocity jet of liquid that breaches the skin at the speed of sound. Credits:Image courtesy of the MIT BioInstrumentation Lab

Device may inject a variety of drugs without using needles

This ‘mousetrap’ may save lives

A low-cost process for “growing” oxide ceramic coatings on metal parts

No more crutches? Flex Leg provides mobility assistance

Cambridge scientists use LEGO MINDSTORMS to build bone-making robots

Flexible, heat-dissipating parts for electronics from spider silk?

UW student wins top Innovation Days prize for prosthetic hand