Mechanical Engineering
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Aug 6, 2020
Arun Majumdar: Sustainability — the defining issue of the 21st century
Energy, Environment![Engineers need to explore the “peopleness” in the challenges they are trying to solve. | Unsplash/Andre Hunter](/sites/default/files/styles/card_1900x950/public/images/news/20200717-tfoe-sheppard.jpg?h=31f4bb55&itok=zqx6yAwc)
Jul 20, 2020
Sheri Sheppard: How do we educate a new kind of engineer?
Technology & Society Issue #100![A prototype of a new type of protective face mask | Photo by Andrew Brodhead](/sites/default/files/styles/card_1900x950/public/images/news/printz-mask.jpg?h=31f4bb55&itok=eYATzVkx)
Apr 14, 2020
COVID-19 prompts a team of engineers to rethink the humble face mask
Health, Technology & Society Issue #92![Tina White | Photo by Andrew Brodhead](/sites/default/files/styles/card_1900x950/public/images/news/covid-watch.jpg?h=31f4bb55&itok=2SohxZc9)
Apr 9, 2020
Researchers help develop a privacy-focused coronavirus alert app
Computation & Data, Technology & Society Issue #93![Graduate students Zachary Hammond, left, and Nathan Usevitch with the isoperimetric robot | Photo by Farrin Abbot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_1900x950/public/images/news/sausagebot-untethered.jpg?h=31f4bb55&itok=I0nXj_C3)
Mar 27, 2020
A team of engineers create a shape-changing, free-roaming soft robot
Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics Issue #91![Gold still behaves like a solid at the nanoscale, says Stanford’s Wendy Gu | Unsplash/Aaron Munoz](/sites/default/files/styles/card_1900x950/public/images/news/gold.jpg?h=31f4bb55&itok=mzdxDt_n)
Mar 24, 2020
As electronics shrink to nanoscale, will they still be good as gold?
Electronics & Networking, Materials![The tactile display pairs with 3D design software to produce touchable representations of a user’s work. | Image courtesy of Farrin Abbott](/sites/default/files/styles/card_1900x950/public/images/news/shapelab_tactiledisplay_4.jpg?h=31f4bb55&itok=zMG4PQO8)
Nov 13, 2019