Anyone who has spent time in the Idea Forge has come to know Shirley Chessman. After working as the Idea Forge Mechanical Lab Engineer for the past seven years, Chessman is retiring this summer. As ...

Virginia Tech’s newest laboratory, the Autonomous Systems and Intelligent Machines (ASIM) lab, is home to a tiny town with robotic vehicles and a full-sized smart car. The lab will provide data-driven ...

News4 got a behind the scenes look at the amazing prosthetics the Vanderbilt University mechanical engineering department are developing. One man who uses a wheel chair tested an "exoskeleton," a ...

Snake scales and butterfly wings are the inspiration for a new surface developed by a University engineering lab, which could advance camouflage and biomedical technology. The surface was designed and ...

Although Wick is a professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and director of the School of Engineering’s bachelor ...

Can new polymer materials in football helmets reduce the concussion risk? How do we use the wind ripping across the prairie for the good? What is the atmospheric fallout of seasonal wildfires in the ...

The event gives professors and students the chance to showcase the department’s research to hundreds of new students and local visitors. 'We wanted to help the students know that we do research and ...

Please contact Brian Nagy to reserve time and equipment. Before a lab reservation can be approved, you must have completed the EH&S Mechanical Engineering Student Manufacturing Lab Safety Training ...

Mechanical engineers apply the principles of motion, energy, force, and materials to design products that are safe, efficient, reliable, and cost effective. Learn to design components, devices, ...