ME News

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Equity, mentoring, Legos, and Googling: Student Joseph O’Such brings an eclectic worldview to campus with help from scholarships	O’Such spent a lot of his childhood with his family in Lane Stadium, shouting “Hokie hi” on Saturday afternoons with thousands of other fans. As a budding engineer, he also envisioned himself walking the Blacksburg campus as a student one day. With the help of two key scholarships, that dream became a reality.	Date: Feb 22, 2022
Inventor spotlight: Jonathan Boreyko, associate professor and John R. Jones III Faculty Fellow	Boreyko's work combines biological mechanics with material science and renewable energy to develop marketable technologies. He strives to uncover and utilize nature-inspired science.	Date: Feb 21, 2022
A star in the world of ceramic engineering	Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor Ling Li has found clues in the skeletons of the knobby starfish that could lead to innovations for stronger ceramics. His work was featured on the cover of Science Magazine.	Date: Feb 16, 2022
Engineering pre-college program project leads to long-term collaboration and research discovery	In the summer of 2020, four students in Virginia Tech’s C-Tech2 program, designed for high school girls interested in engineering, started a project to turn an ordinary water bottle into a makeshift desalination system. Now, with the help of faculty member Jonathan Boreyko, their research is getting published in Soft Matter.	Date: Feb 11, 2022
Chris Williams named senior member of the National Academy of Inventors	Williams has excelled in the field of additive manufacturing (also called 3D printing), establishing himself as a pioneer from the earliest days of the technology’s appearance on the Virginia Tech campus.	Date: Feb 11, 2022
New soft robot morphs from a ground to air vehicle using liquid metal	A research team led by Michael Bartlett, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, has created a drone that changes modes by using temperature and dynamic materials. Their work was recently published in Science Robotics.	Date: Feb 09, 2022