Tag: mechanical engineering

  • Nation & World

    Engineering change

    After graduating Harvard, Juliet Nwagwu Ume-Ezeoke ’21 is off to study civil engineering at Stanford University, but first, she will squeeze in yet another experience in Africa.

    4 minutes
    Juliet Nwagwu Ume-Ezeoke ’21
  • Nation & World

    Clues in the cucumber’s climb

    Harvard researchers, captivated by a strange coiling behavior in the grasping tendrils of the cucumber plant, have characterized a new type of spring that is soft when pulled gently and stiff when pulled strongly.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Buckling under pressure

    Inspired by a spherical toy that expands and collapses, researchers at Harvard and MIT have created a new type of engineered capsule, called a “buckliball,” that exploits the phenomenon of buckling. The buckliball is the first morphable structure to incorporate buckling as a desirable engineering design element.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Applied knowledge

    Five recent graduates of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences talked to current students about life beyond Harvard in the first of a series of engineering-themed career events hosted by the FAS Office of Career Services.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    It’s the ‘lab-on-a-chip’ model

    With little more than a conventional photocopier and transparency film, anyone can build a functional microfluidic chip.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Research team at Harvard to develop small-scale mobile robotic devices

    A multidisciplinary team of computer scientists, engineers, and biologists at Harvard received a $10 million National Science Foundation (NSF) Expeditions in Computing grant to fund the development of small-scale mobile robotic…

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Spiral swimmers may prove micro workhorses

    Harvard researchers have created a new type of microscopic swimmer: a magnetized spiral that corkscrews through liquids and is able to deliver chemicals and push loads larger than itself. Though…

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Scientists create high-speed nanowire circuits

    Chemists and engineers at Harvard University have made robust circuits from minuscule nanowires that align themselves on a chip of glass during low-temperature fabrication, creating rudimentary electronic devices that offer…

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