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The Department of Mechanical Engineering is an active research hub at the forefront of developments in human health, the environment, robotics, manufacturing, energy, and more. Our faculty, researchers, and students work on everything from designing clean engines to curing cancer. Read about what ME is doing to change the world right here in Minnesota.
ME Faculty Study How COVID-19 Spreads Indoors
Posted July 8, 2020
ME faculty members Jiarong Hong and Suo Yang are researching how COVID-19 particles float in indoor settings, hoping to answer questions about how the virus spreads in different spaces.
MSME Graduate Leads Volunteer Mask-Kit Assembly
Posted June 26, 2020
Laura Bartels earned her master's degree in engineering and helped assemble 500 kits for the MNMask project.
Groundbreaking New Research Allows 3D Printing Directly on Organs
Posted June 22, 2020
ME Professor Michael McAlpine is serving as senior researcher on a team that has developed a groundbreaking 3D printing technique to print electronic sensors directly on organs that are expanding and contracting.
ME Assistant Professor Leads Research Team on Virus Transport in Respiratory Systems
Posted June 17, 2020
Suo Yang's team will investigate the transport of virus aerosols and nasal medicinal droplets in order to help develop effective treatments for COVID-19.
Aerosol Research at the Center of Answering Questions About COVID-19 on Surfaces
Posted June 5, 2020
ME Associate Professor Jiarong Hong has been working to answer questions about how COVID-19 droplets survive on surfaces, finding that droplets do not disappear upon evaporation
ME Helps Design COVID-19 Testing Booth, Allowing for Twice as Many Tests Per Day
Posted May 8, 2020
The Hogan Group research team and ME staff built booths with positive pressure HEPA filtered air to allow healthcare workers to safely test COVID-19 patients without the need for PPE, which allows for twice as many tests per day.
New Protective Device for Healthcare Professionals
Posted April 29, 2020
ME Professor Chris Hogan is part of a research team that developed a respiratory procedure box that has been distributed to M Health Fairview hospitals.
"Coventor" Becomes First of Its Kind to Get FDA Approval
Posted April 29, 2020
The Earl E. Bakken Medical Devices Center, directed by ME Professor Arthur Erdman, helped create a low-cost ventilator alternative for emergency use curing the COVID-19 outbreak.
ME Professor Wins Faculty Teaching Award
Posted April 29, 2020
Professor James Van de Ven received CSE's Bowers Teaching Award in recognition of his innovative and inspirational teaching.
Distinguished Research Award Goes to ME Professor
Posted April 29, 2020
Professor and Associate Department Head Peter Bruggeman won the George W. Taylor Award for Distinguished Research.
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