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Emily Beatty, a 2018 Virginia Tech mechanical engineering graduate, has been named a Rising Star finalist by Women in Technology for her contributions to both mentoring and innovation.

The Virginia Tech Baja student team took home multiple awards at the 2021 Baja event held April 29-May 2 by the Society of Automotive Engineers.

Senior Dwight Jones was been chosen to participate in the Stanford Exposure to Research and Graduate Education (SERGE) at Stanford University for a second consecutive year.

Two Mechanical Engineering student teams from took home wins in the 2022 Marine Energy Collegiate Competition among 17 collegiate teams from universities across the United States.

Join us in person Thursday, September 1, from 12:30-1:45 pm in 345 Lavery Hall. Presented by the Technical Communication Program of Virginia Tech Mechanical Engineering and the Virginia Tech Writing Center.

A project made by a Mechanical Engineering senior design team during the 2020-2021 school year recently won first place in the undergraduate division of the Student Mechanism & Robot Design Competition, part of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences.

A student advised by Mechanical Engineering Professor Brian Lattimer has received recognition from the International Association for Fire Safety Science (IAFSS). A Sheldon Tieszen Student Award was awarded for the paper, "Localized Heat Transfer from Firebrands to Surfaces," authored by Elias D. Bearinger. The paper will be published at the IAFSS conference in April 2021.

A Virginia Tech student team finished their strongest year in group history in an intercollegiate design competition challenging student teams to design, build and race off-road vehicles that can withstand the harshest elements of rough terrain.

A team of undergraduates has been awarded the Robert W. Young Award for Undergraduate Research in Acoustics from the Acoustical Society of America for a biomimetic bat robot.

Alum Dixie Cox was part of an effort by Norfolk Naval Shipyard’s Technology and Innovation Lab to design, develop and manufacture a 3D-printed stave measurement tool to precisely measure waterborne bearing stave widths to facilitate ship propulsion system work.

Dwight Jones, a junior mechanical engineering student from Glen Allen, Virginia, has been chosen to participate in the Stanford Exposure to Research and Graduate Education (SERGE) at Stanford University.

Virginia Tech has earned a spot as one of the 15 universities to participate in the prestigious EcoCAR EV Challenge series.

The Virginia Tech EcoCAR team has taken fourth place out of 11 teams in the national mobility competition administered by the U.S. Department of Energy in coordination with General Motors and MathWorks.

Joseph O’Such, a senior from Leesburg double majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science, is the recipient of the spring 2024 Phi Kappa Phi Medallion Award.

A team of students from Virginia Tech, in collaboration with UCLA, took third place among 16 teams in a national competition aimed at creating new technologies for large-scale renewable energy.

Monoflo will invest in Virginia Tech’s engineering program by becoming the title sponsor for the Formula SAE team. In addition to monetary help, Monoflo has offered to assist in the testing of powertrains.

Four Virginia Tech students are part of a small nationwide cohort to receive University Nuclear Leadership Program scholarships from the Office of Nuclear Energy in the Department of Energy to advance their studies in the field of nuclear engineering.

Senior Allison Roush was chosen as one of seven recipients of the 2021 McAllister Leadership Scholarship.

A team of students has taken the top spot, bringing home a historic car hood, at the final event of the SAE 2023 Baja Challenge.

Over spring break, several senior design students from the Department of Mechanical Engineering opted to work on a project with The Aerospace Corporation to test a new technology instead of taking a beach vacation, as many of their peers do.