ME News
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Title Virginia Tech vibration study aims to make footbridges better for pedestrians |
Description For Mehdi Setareh, his research team, and a group of 30 of Virginia Tech's cadets, the simple task of walking across a pedestrian bridge can help make future bridges better and safer for people. |
Info Date: Oct 22, 2019 |
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Title Corps of Cadets alumnus 1st Lt. Andrew Benton named North Carolina game Hokie Hero |
Description Benton is an air support control officer deployed on the USS Boxer with the Amphibious Ready Group. He supervises and coordinates air operations across multiple ships. |
Info Date: Oct 18, 2019 |
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Title Virginia Tech researchers develop smart prosthetic sockets to improve comfort and performance |
Description With a $400,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, Virginia Tech College of Engineering researchers will study volume loss and develop smart prosthetic sockets to improve comfort and performance in prostheses. |
Info Date: Oct 08, 2019 |
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Title Virginia Tech researchers aim to give robots bio-inspired gaits |
Description Kaveh Hamed, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering in the College of Engineering, and his research team have worked to enhance bio-inspired locomotion in robots alongside collaborators from within the department and from other universities around the country. |
Info Date: Sep 29, 2019 |
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Title Engineering students win $25,000 in international product-pitching competition |
Description An exoskeleton concept put Maroon Assistive Technologies in first place in the Virginia Tech Global Entrepreneur Challenge, a pitch competition won last year by a student team from Chile. |
Info Date: Sep 24, 2019 |
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Title Walter O'Brien honored with emeritus status posthumously |
Description O’Brien was the J. Bernard Jones Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the College of Engineering. He passed away on July 25, 2019. |
Info Date: Sep 19, 2019 |
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Title Robin White seeks better agriculture by harnessing new technology |
Description In her five years at Virginia Tech, White has taken a lead role in harnessing advancements in technology to study livestock and convert big data into applications for producers. During Friday's State of the University address, White described the SmartFarm Innovation Network and its effect on animal health and sustainability. |
Info Date: Sep 09, 2019 |
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Title Lockheed Martin on campus Sept. 4 and 5 to recruit students |
Description Lockheed Martin will be at the Inn at Virginia Tech on Sept. 4 and 5 to recruit a variety of engineering and business majors, including computer science, aerospace engineering, computer programming, software development, finance, and accounting. |
Info Date: Sep 03, 2019 |
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Title In memoriam: Walter F. O'Brien Jr., J. Bernard Jones Professor of Mechanical Engineering |
Description O'Brien was a member of the Virginia Tech faculty for more than 52 years, and was the first faculty member from the mechanical engineering department to receive a named professorship. |
Info Date: Jul 31, 2019 |
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Title Virginia Tech Hyperloop team appears at fourth pod competition |
Description After a year of designing and fabricating their pod, seven Hokies flew out to Los Angeles for the competition, including a recent graduate and two graduate students who served as advisors to the team. |
Info Date: Jul 23, 2019 |
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Title Multi-containment filters key to recycling pollutants, creating cleaner energy |
Description A mechanical engineering professor will analyze panel-bed filters that could be used to absorb pollutants to be recycled. |
Info Date: Jul 01, 2019 |
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Title 'Sneezing' plants contribute to disease proliferation |
Description Virginia Tech researchers have found that jumping droplets have an impact in the spread of wheat leaf rust spores. |
Info Date: Jun 21, 2019 |
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