Professor Yang Named NAI Fellow
ME professor EH Yang was named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Engineering Mushrooms that Generate Electricity
ME assistant professor Manu Mannoor and his colleagues have taken an ordinary white button mushroom from a grocery store and turned it into an electric generator. Here's how
Brain Video Wins NSF / Popular Science VIZZIE Award
ME assistant professor Mehmet Kurt and his lab win the People's Choice VIZZIE award for a video showing how the brain, coupled with blood flow, moves with every heartbeat.
Modeling How Toxic Proteins Course Through the Brain
A team of researchers led by ME assistant professor Johannes Weickenmeier create computer simulations showing the telltale patterns of atrophy associated with Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease.
AI Equipped Robots to Navigate the Ocean
ME assistant professor Brendan Englot and his team create AI-equipped underwater robots to take on task of inspecting the nation’s aging piers, bridges, pipelines.
Combating Friction with Nanotextures
ME associate professor Chang-Hwan Choi develops technologies to make nanoscale textures and apply them to boats and planes to combat issues like friction, icing and corrosion.
3D Printing Human Cells
Most 3D printers aren't equipped to print human cells. Assistant professor Robert Chang created one that can. Here's how it works.
The Department of Mechanical Engineering educates its students with a broad-based foundation in fundamental engineering principles and liberal arts together with the depth of disciplinary knowledge needed to succeed in a career in mechanical engineering or a related field, including a wide variety of advanced technological and management careers.
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Faculty in the Department of Mechanical Engineering work closely with undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students on influential and critical research areas such as sustainable energy, fluid systems, materials, design and manufacturing, nanotechnology and robotics.
IDEaS
The IDEaS program integrates learning and technical design with entrepreneurial thinking to create an environment that fosters innovation.
Bionic Materials & Systems
This laboratory is highly interdisciplinary and focused in the integration of biological sciences with electronics and mechanical engineering.
Design & Manufacturing
Research and development center focused on realizing cost-effective and high performance products and systems with cross-disciplinary research.
Robust Field Autonomy
Designs algorithms, optimization methods and control systems that help mobile robots achieve robust autonomy in complex environments.
Nanomaterials and Devices
This research group develops the design, fabrication, characterization and applications of various active nanostructures and nanodevices.
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Department of Mechanical Engineering
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Carnegie Laboratory
Room 213
Hoboken, NJ 07030
Room 213
Hoboken, NJ 07030
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p. (201) 216-8593
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Dr. Souran P. Manoochehri
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