In the News

January 2023

• Professor Bharat Bhushan was featured on WOSU's "Mosquitoes Teach Us to Make Better Devices: QED with Dr. B"

September 2022

• MAE Professor Ayonga Hereid explains why household robot servants are a lot harder to build than robotic vacuums and automated warehouse workers in The Conversation

August 2022

• MAE Professor Marcelo Dapino's work on improving wind sensors for flight in dangerous or changing weather conditions published to Frontiers in Materials.

March 2022

• Professor Haijun Su's Design Innovation and Simulation Laboratory developed a 3D Printed Soft Robotic Gripper with a Variable Stiffness Enabled by a Novel Positive Pressure Layer Jamming Technology. The article was accepted by IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.

November 2021

• MAE professor Mrinal Kumar featured on NPR member station's All Things Considered about our his lab's NSF project on UAS/Wildfires.

• MAE professor Mrinal Kumar's research on the use of drones in fighting wildfires featured in sUASnews.

February 2021

• MAE graduate Michael Eades: Nuclear-powered rocket could get astronauts to Mars faster, from CNN

• Professor Bhushan named Scopus’s One of 440 Scientists for Career-long Citation Impact Across All Fields in 2020

December 2020 

• MAE Alum, Simon Kalouche, Named one of Forbes 30 under 30 in manufacturing and industry
• Emeritus Faculty, Bharat Bhushan, awarded Tribology Gold Medal by International Tribology Council

October 2020 

• Professor Chris Atkinson quoted in The Washington Post: Bringing the chill of the cosmos to a warming planet

September 2020 

• Professor Mrinal Kumar: OSU researchers hope new tech will help in battle against wildfires, from NBC4

July 2020 

• Dr Nathan Kirchner - Adjunct Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering - was named as one of Australia's 30 most innovative engineers by peak body Engineers Australia in 2020 
   
• Professor Marat Khafizov and the university had a leading role in research on how light effects ceramic material now and into the future. Read this INL research article for more.
   

February 2020 

• Professor Bharat Bhushan edited an issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, the world's oldest peer reviewed journal 
  • The first issue of The Philosophical Transactions appeared in March 1665. Many pioneering scientists such as Isaac Newton, George Stokes, Charles Darwin, William Herschel and more have published in this journal.

January 2020

• Professor Jim Gregory quoted in this article about new missle technology traveling at Mach 27

• Columbia University researcher and MAE alum Sunil Agrawal helped develop a robotic device that can help people with spinal cord injuries to improve their trunk control

December 2019

• Professor Bharat Bhushan Delivers TEDx Talk: Lessons from Nature: Bioinspired Surfaces for Green Technology  

• MAE research in the running for OSU coolest science story of the year

• Tiny magnetic particles enable new material created by MAE researcher Renee Zhao to bend, twist, and grab

• The National Science Foundation recently highlighted MAE researcher Renee Zhao's work on their website

October 2019

• Non Classical Transport: Collaboration with Rio de Janeiro State University  (10/31)

September 2019

• Prof. Bharat Bhushan received an Honorary Doctorate from the prestigious University of Tyumen, Russia (NLBB, 9/16)

 

August 2019

• Bhushan ranked # 4 in the field of Mechanical Engineering from all over the world for one's entire career, living and deceased (NLBB, 8/29)

• Spreading Of Breast Cancer Cells Can Be Prevented By Electromagnetic Field (Denton Observer, 8/9)

  • Also, 8/9: Electromagnetic Fields May Hinder Spread of Breast Cancer Cells (Lab Manager)

• Summer school marks 10th year of bringing young combustion scientists to ‘the edge of research’ (Princeton news, 8/8)

 

July 2019

• Camp CAR teaches high school students about latest technologies (WCMH-TV, 7/28)

• To the moon and beyond 3: The new space race and what winning it looks like (The Conversation, 7/17)

• Turning university research into commercial products (Ohio State News, 7/15)

• Robots Will Navigate the Moon With Maps They Make Themselves (Spectrum IEEE, 7/10)

 

June 2019

• Mexican Tariffs start Monday, and businesses are reeling (Podcast includes: uberCOPTER) (Marketplace, 6/7)

 

May 2019

• Ohio State takes honors in the EcoCAR mobility challenge (AutoBlog, 5/23)
  • Also, 5/31: The Ohio State University Snags EcoCAR Mobility Challenge Win And $10,000 (Forbes)
• Battery boost for grid-scale storage (The Engineer, 5/15)
  • Also, 5/28: Power/Performance Bits: May 28 (Semiconductor Engineering)
  • Also, 5/14: Researchers take step towards promising new battery to store clean energy (Laboratory Equipment)

 

April 2019

• Private Space Launch Firms in China Race to Orbit (Spectrum IEEE, 4/26)

• Photos: Script Ohio through the years (Buckeye Extra, 4/12)

• New Material Could Transform How Electronics Are Built (Design News, 4/11)Drones' Newest Cargo Might Just Be Human Organs (Smithsonian, 4/9)

 

March 2019

• The Miniscule Movements That Keep Us From Falling (Laboratory Equipment, 3/29)

• Chinese private firm OneSpace fails with first orbital launch attempt (Space News, 3/27)

• Cars and Tech (WOSU, 3/26)

• Scientists find new material to help power electronics (Materials Post, 3/18)

  • Also, 3/18: Researchers discover new material to help power electronics (Nanowerk)

  • Also, 3/19: Ohio State Researchers Find New Way to Power Electronics (The Business Journal)

  • Also, 3/19: Researchers Discover New Material to Help Power Electronics (R&D)

  • Also, 3/26: New material promises new technological advancements (The Lantern)

• SWE Stories - Tales from the Archives Podcast: The Trouble with Celebrating First (All Together, 3/18)

 

February 2019

• A revolution in a sentence—the future of human spaceflight in America (The Conversation, 2/8)

 

January 2019

• First private spacecraft shoots for the moon (The Conversation, 1/31)

• Westinghouse's Bertha Lamme was the nation's first female mechanical engineer (WESA-FM, 1/30)

• 3D printing dew collectors that pull water out of desert air (3ders.org, 1/7)

  • Also, 1/8: Make clean water out of air (KCBS Radio)

  • Also, 1/10: Collecting clean water from air (After the Shift)

  • Also, 1/10: Studies for collecting clean water from air inspired by nature (The Virginia Engineer)