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Mao Yisheng was the recipient of the first Ph.D. given by the Carnegie Institute of Technology, now known as Carnegie Mellon University.

A recreation of the 1896 Horseless Carriage Exhibition will showcase a unique collection of early automotive history, alongside cars of the future.

Two major investments in the automotive industry in Coventry will create world class facilities for the automotive industry in a resurgent "Motor City" Coventry, and both will be built in the year that will mark 120 years of motor manufacturing history in the City.

Mason Peck, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Cornell, and Stephen Hawking at the announcement of the Breakthrough Starshot project.

For most high school students, competing at an international competition at NASA's Kennedy Space Centre is an idea that is simply out of this world.

Talk for a while with MIT senior Raichelle Aniceto about satellites, and you might find you've caught the aerospace bug.

Hugh Hunt (Department of Engineering) discusses the Wall of Death world record attempt and how a motorcycle can ride around a vertical wall.

A prototype LCLS-II undulator, which is designed to wiggle electrons, causing them to emit brilliant X-ray light, undergoes magnetic measurements at Berkeley Lab.

Since the 1600s, chocolatiers have been perfecting the art of the bonbon, passing down techniques for crafting a perfectly smooth, even chocolaty shell. Now, a theory and a simple fabrication technique derived by MIT engineers may help chocolate artisans create uniformly smooth shells and precisely tailor their thickness.

Chemical engineers at Stanford have discovered mechanical properties of the tear film on the eye's surface that can be used to manufacture lenses that more closely mimic the eye.

ANN ARBOR-An international team of engineers and biologists will gain unprecedented insights into how birds fly so efficiently and then turn that knowledge to building unmanned aircraft with shapeshifting wings. These planes should be lighter, faster and dramatically more maneuverable than today's stiff-winged aircraft.

Nanoscopic 3D imaging has revealed how different bacteria have geared their tiny propeller motors for a wide range of swimming abilities. Many bacteria swim using flagella - long tails that are attached to tiny motors made of proteins, just tens of nanometres wide. These motors spin the flagella, which work as nanoscale propellers to drive the bacterium forward.

How does a 128-year-old company stay relevant? It constantly innovates.

03. Sonceboz, a mechatronics specialist based in the Canton of Bern, has opened an innovation cell at EPFL Innovation Park.

A team of Imperial alumni have launched an invention kit that allows children to make remote controlled toys from the contents of the recycling bin.

An image of cancellous bone, with regions of microscopic tissue damage shown in green and orange. Cancellous bone is found at the end of bones, near the joints, and in the vertebrae. When most things break, they fall apart and lose their mechanical function. There are ways to overcome this: To help make car and aircraft parts last longer, engineers often apply surface treatments that harden the surfaces to prevent cracks from starting.

Green and lush, the Amazonian rainforest of Peru's Madre de Dios region envelops the team of students and faculty as they trek through the thick underbrush.

The Scottish Government's Minister for Business, Energy and Tourism, Fergus Ewing MSP, officially opened the University of Glasgow's upgraded wind tunnel facilities and infrastructure at an event today (Wednesday 24 February).

For much of the world's population, gathering fuel to cook food is a dangerous proposition. Women and children often journey miles from their homes to collect sticks and branches, exposing themselves to sexual assault, other violence and wild animals.

The upside of Wi-Fi is that it's everywhere - invisibly connecting laptops to printers, allowing smartphones to make calls or stream movies without cell service, and letting online gamers battle it out.

A new study by Carnegie Mellon University researchers finds that electric vehicles charged in coal-heavy regions can create more damage to human health and the environment than gasoline vehicles in those regions. But many coal-fired plants are set to be retired soon, which could flip the scales in favor of electric vehicles.

A research collaboration between Mechanical Engineering and a game studio has resulted in a brand new family game which combines digital and physical technologies.

Those grand gestures of affection that come around Valentine's Day: flowers, dinner reservations, romantic moonlit strolls through the snow.

Next generation of constructors get a taste of university life The University opened its doors as part of a nationwide initiative designed to inspire the next generation of engineers and built environment professionals in to the construction industry.

Discussions of self-driving vehicles are often accompanied by highly confident predictions: Visions of the future include whole networks of automated cars seamlessly zipping around metropolitan areas, safely and efficiently, with every person inside them a passive, hands-off passenger.

An Imperial expert in joint mechanics and the effects of blast injuries has been recognised for his achievements by a prestigious US institution.

Lynden Archer, the William C. Hooey Director and James A. Friend Family Distinguished Professor of Engineering and director of the Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolec

WMG at the University of Warwick is to use a laser scan of 30 miles of Coventry roads to test driverless pods as part of a research programme launched this week. WMG will work with RDM Group - the UK's only designer and manufacturer of driverless Pods - in a project called INnovative Testing of Autonomous Control Techniques (INTACT).

A group of key water researchers from 13 organisations in eight countries, including the University of Bristol and Cabot Institute, is calling for a revision of how the world should study and tackle drought.

The distinctive troughs and crests of the human brain are actually not present in most animal brains; highly folded brains are seen only in a handful of species, including some primates, dolphins, elephants and pigs.

By using a novel controllable adhesive system, a Stanford engineer shows that a person can scale a glass wall just like Spidey. Last week, Stephen Colbert took center stage on The Late Show and lamented that a recent study by zoologists at the University of Cambridge found that Spider-Man probably couldn't actually climb walls.

Picture a future without gridlock. A future in which our city streets, roads and highways are safer, cleaner and greener.

What bones are to bodies, the cytoskeleton is to cells. The cytoskeleton maintains cellular structure, builds appendages like flagella and, together with motor proteins, powers cellular movement, transport, and division.

(CAMBRIDGE, Mass. With vehicles communicating with embedded monitors alongside roadways to better route traffic, and home appliances connected to the smart grid to improve efficiency and reliability, the Internet of Things (IOT) may generate more than $14 trillion in economic activity by 2025.

The College of Earth and Mineral Sciences' Ismaila Dabo uses computer simulations to help design and improve the materials that bring us power.

For 35 years Clive Hargreaves has helped maintain the unique facilities that make Imperial's civil engineering research among the best in the world.

(CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Researchers in the field of mechanobiology are revealing new insights into how the body's physical forces and mechanics impact development, physiological health, and the prevention and treatment of disease.

Selfless work creating change for homeless people has propelled a University of Queensland student to be named Young Australian of the Year Bachelor of Engineering/Bachelor of Commerce student Lucas

If you've ever blown up a balloon or pulled at a pair of pantyhose, you may have noticed that the more the material stretches, the more transparent it becomes. It's a simple enough observation: the thinner a material, the more light shines through. Now MIT scientists have come up with a theory to predict exactly how much light is transmitted through a material, given its thickness and degree of stretch.

from left: physicists Yuri Pashkin, George Pickett, the Vice-Chancellor, Roger Jones and Rich Haley at the IsoLab site Lancaster University has begun work on a £2m suite of ultra-low noise laboratori

An all-climate battery that rapidly self-heats battery materials and electrochemical interfaces in cold environments UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.

On any given bus ride, a good share of passengers are reading, texting or rocking out to music on their phones or tablets.

From left, researchers Kazuki Nomoto, Bo Song, Zongyang Hu, Vladimir Protasenko, Grace Xing and Debdeep Jena are pictured in Xing's Phillips Hall lab. On the left is the High Power Device Probe Station, where results of the team's gallium nitride experimentation were analyzed. A cutaway diagram of the gallium nitride power diode developed by a Cornell-based research team led by Huili (Grace) Xing, the Richard Lundquist Sesquicentennial Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.