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Mechanical, Aerospace, and Structural Engineering
Mechanical engineers study the behavior of solids, liquids and gases when forces are applied to them and when they are heated and cooled. They learn how to convert energy efficiently from one form to another. Using these knowledge bases, mechanical engineers play key roles in the design of transportation systems, including automobiles and space vehicles; environmental control systems, including air conditioners and furnaces; manufacturing machinery and processes, including robots; energy conversion technology, including engines and power plants; biomedical devices; and the list goes on. This tremendous breadth in the scope of the mechanical engineering profession gives the mechanical engineer access to employment in every major industry imaginable. Mechanical engineering faculty are highly acclaimed and research areas as diverse as combustion mechanics, the movement of aerosols, rotocrafts, biomedical and aerospace engineering.
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2008 McDonnell lecture
Space scientist Flanagan to speak on Webb Telescope
March 20,
2008 --
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Kathryn Flanagan, Ph.D., senior scientist and head of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Mission Office at the Space Telescope Science Institute, will deliver the 2008 McDonnell Lecture at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 27, in Room 214 Wilson Hall on the Danforth Campus at Washington University in St. Louis.
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Missouri earthquake awareness month
Seminar to address ways to lessen earthquake damage
Feb. 6,
2008 -- The Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Structural Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis is presenting a series of seminars and workshops on the topic of reducing the damage that would occur when a strong earthquake strikes the New Madrid fault area again.
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Extreme environments
Return to Europa: A closer look is possible
Dec. 13,
2007 --
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| Thick or thin ice shell on Jupiter's moon Europa? Scientists are all but certain that Europa has an ocean underneath its surface ice, but do not know how thick this ice might be. |
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Jupiter's moon Europa is just as far away as ever, but new research is bringing scientists closer to being able to explore its tantalizing ice-covered ocean and determine its potential for harboring life. William B. McKinnon, professor of earth and planetary sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, is discussing some of these recent findings and new opportunities for exploring Europa in a news briefing on Thursday, Dec. 13, 2007, at the meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.
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David Peters
McDonnell Douglas Professor of Engineering
David Peters is widely recognized as an expert in design and analysis of rotary-wing aircraft. His theory of dynamic inflow is the world standard for wake modeling in rotorcraft dynamics and simulation. His continuing research on rotorcraft modeling and analysis has led to the publication of more than ...
Expertise: rotary-wing aircraft, helicopters, rotocraft dynamics, aeronautics, astronautics
Media assistance: (314) 935-5272 / tony_fitzpatrick@wustl.edu
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Kenneth F. Kelton
Professor of Physics in Arts & Sciences
Kenneth Kelton is an expert in a phenomenon called nucleation, which is the most common way that physical systems change from one phase to another and is a governing process in nearly all phase transformations. Kelton has a long history of collaboration with Patrick Gibbons, Ph.D., professor of physics ...
Expertise: quasicrystals, metallurgy, nucleation processes, metallic liquids, materials science, materials physics, non-crystaline solids, …
Direct contact: (314) 935-6228
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Rudolf Husar
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Husar is the director of Washington University's Center for Air Pollution Impact, Trends and Analysis (CAPITA), the world's largest private library of air pollution literature and computerized statistics. CAPITA spans more than 100 years of American pollution and energy consumption. Using CAPITA data, ...
Expertise: air pollution, clean air, aerosols, fluid mechanics, Monte Carlo Modeling, ozone
Direct contact: (314) 935-6054
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rhusar@me.wustl.edu
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Frank Yin
Stephen and Camilla Brauer Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Frank C. P. Yin, M.D., Ph.D., the Stephen and Camilla Brauer Professor of Biomedical Engineering and chair of the biomedical engineering department, is a world-renowned biomedical engineer. Yin heads a dynamic, young department, not yet five years old and already ranked among the top 20 in the nation. ...
Expertise: soft tissue mechanics, cell mechanics, hemodynamics
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yin@biomed.wustl.edu
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devised a technique on humans that for the first time shows just what the brain does when the skull accelerates
Space Daily
Dec. 16,
2005 -- Mechanical engineers at WUSTL along with collaborators, have devised a technique using MRI technology that shows how the human brain reacts when the skull accelerates. The research shows that as the skull accelerates, the numerous vessels, membranes and nerves at the base of the brain, try to pull away, from the spine leading to a significant deformation in the front of the brain. Philip Bayly, Ph.D., Lilyan and E. Lisle Hughes Professor in Engineering, discussed the group's findings Nov. 10, 2005, at the annual meeting of the National Neurotrauma Society in Washington, DC.
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CubeSats could carry everything from experiments to transmitters into space relatively cheaply
CNN.com International
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Sept. 10,
2004 -- Experts say the big news in spacecraft building involves ultra-small CubeSats. CubeSats will make be easier and more cost effective to deploy into orbit. Michael Swartwout, professor of mechanical engineering, comments on this new industry and the role-played by university research.
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Award-winning video captures water, oil, mixing
Innovations-Report (Germany)
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March 12,
2004 --
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| Clip of the award-winning video that shows (from left) canola oil, STP fuel oil and STP fuel additive mixing with water. |
A team consisting of an art student and mechanical engineers at Washington University in St. Louis has made an award-winning movie that captures for the first time the fluid mechanics phenomenon of two things that classically don't mix, doing just that.
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