Department of Mechanical Engineering

News & Highlights

11-10-09

Mechanical Engineering Professor, Srinath Ekkad is honored to give keynote presentation at international conference on flow visualization.

10-19-09

Mechanical Engineering Professors, Doug Nelson and Michael von Spakovsky and former doctoral students, Kihyung Kim and Meng Wang are honored with the ASME Advanced Energy System Division's 2008 Best Paper Award

10-15-09

Mechanical Engineering Professor, Dennis Hong, honored among Popular Science's Brilliant 10 of 2009

10-12-09

Virginia Tech Engineering Faculty Hope to Enhance Returning GI's Educational Experiences

10-11-09

Mechanical Engineering Professor Dan Inman is honored with the IWSHM Life Time Achievement Award

10-04-09

Virginia Tech's RoMeLa develops a low cost dexterous robotic hand operated by compressed air

09-14-09

Mechanical Engineering Professor Danesh K. Tafti named William S. Cross Professor of Engineering

09-01-09

Mechanical Engineering Professor Dennis Hong receives SAE International Educational Award

08-26-09

Mechanical Engineering Professor Janis Terpenny helps Salem Company with research and design

07-13-09

Virginia Institute for Performance Engineering and Research attracts celebrity rocker's Green Car Team

06-16-09

Mechanical Engineering Professor Doug Nelson Wins NSF Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award During EcoCar Challenge in Toronto, Canada

05-05-09

The Mechanical Engineering Department Proudly Recognizes the College of Engineering Faculty Award Recipients: Dan Inman, Bob West, Nakhiah Goulbourne, Clay Gabler, Janis Terpenny and Chris Williams

05-13-09

Mechanical Engineering Students Are Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges

05-18-09

Mechanical Engineering Alumnus, Jerry Ballengee Was Recently Inducted Into Virginia Tech's Academy of Engineering Excellence For His Career Achievements

04-01-09

Virginia Tech's Center for Intelligent Material Systems and Structures (CIMSS) and Physical Acoustics Corporation Partner to Investigate Energy Independent Monitoring System for Bridges.

03-23-09

Mechanical Engineering student Mehdi Nikkhah named The College of Engineering's 2009 Outstanding Doctoral Student

03-24-09

Mechanical Engineering's, Melissa Williams is Recongnized as a Valuable Staff Member to Virginia Tech

03-11-09

Professor Jan Helge Bohn Receives Alumni Award for Excellence in International Education

02-18-09

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University created an ANS student section after restarting nuclear engineering courses and a nuclear engineering research program in 2007

12-19-08

Congratulations to Shashank Priya for his Air Force Young Investigator award (in today's VT news), well done!

12-02-08

Mechanical Engineering Student Alex Navin works to improve film cooling in gas turbines

10-14-08

Fall Fluid Mechanics Symposium November 13, 2008 - The Inn at Virginia Tech

09-09-08

Nakhiah Goulbourne earns National Science Foundation CAREER award to research heart stent sensors

07-02-08

Engineering Students and Robots Rule in Dennis Hong's RoMeLa Lab

06-23-08

Alan Kornhauser Named To ASME Committee On Ethical Standards And Review

06-16-08

Chris Williams Wins Award for his paper entitled, "A Functional Classification Framework for the Conceptual Design of Layered Manufacturing Technologies

05-22-08

Virginia Tech's Dan Inman Receives Distinguished Alumnus Award

05-21-08

Thao Do of mechanical engineering is among Virginia Tech's Goldwater scholars

05-08-08

James B. Jones will receive the university's most prestigious honor

05-08-08

Virginia Tech Honors Engineer George Middleton for his Career Achievements

05-01-08

Congratulations Melissa Williams!! "2008 McComas Staff Leadership Award"

04-23-08

TODAY'S TOP STORY Probing the complexities of climate and other chaotic systems is the goal of CAREER project Engineering professor Mark Paul says he plans to use System X supercomputer to build a better understanding of complex systems and develop hands-on numerical experiments that will enable pre-college students to explore chaotic dynamics for themselves.

04-02-08

Industry Teams with Virginia Tech Engineering Students on Hybrid Technology

03-31-08

Virginia Tech senior engineering design projects to be showcased April 29

12-20-07

The ME Department Announced Seven(7) Openings For Tenured/Tenure-Track Faculty Positions

12-14-07

Three named John R. Jones Fellows in Mechanical Engineering

11-04-07

Virginia Tech's Team Victor Tango wins third place and $500,000 in DARPA Urban Challenge

10-24-07

Virginia Tech Mechanical Engineer to Lead U.S. delegation to India

10-12-07

RoMeLa's Exciting Robots Featured on Discovery Channel

10-10-07

Mechanical Engineering department offers Graduate Nuclear Engineering Certificate program

10-09-07

John Jones Named to Virginia Tech's Academy of Engineering Excellence

10-09-07

Elmer Easton Named to Virginia Tech's Academy of Engineering Excellence

10-08-07

Calkins Selected Virginia Tech's Outstanding Young Alumnus

09-24-07

Professor Jan Helge Bohn Wins XCaliber Award for Excellence for a Team Involved in Technology-Assisted Teaching and Learning

05-31-07

Professor Daniel J. Inman awarded 2007 J. P. Den Hartog Award

05-02-07

Five of ME Department's faculty were recognized at the 2007 Dean's Awards Reception

04-13-07

The Roanoke Times: Tech students create soccer-playing robot

04-13-07

MIT Technology Review: Amoebalike Robots for Search and Rescue

04-13-07

EE Times: Robots won't walk or whir--they'll ooze

04-13-07

Virginia Tech News: Developing robotic locomotion that mimics the amoeba is the goal of new research

02-12-07

Hybrid Electric Vehicle Team Takes Top Honors During Challenge X Competition