2008 WSE Video Competition

4/27/08: The results are in! The Department of Mechanical Engineering awarded its own prizes in the 2008 WSE Video Competition. Click here to see all of the winning entries.

Blue Jays Win 20th Consecutive Centennial Match

4/20/08: ME freshmen Casey Blythe has won his 19th tennis match this week, helping the Hopkins Blue Jays win their 20th consecutive Centennial Conference match.

Winner of the Whiting School of Engineering's 2008 Staff Service Award

4/1/08: Mike Bernard, Sr. Academic Program Coordinator, has been selected as the winner of the Whiting School of Engineering's 2008 Staff Service Award for outstanding service and support of the educational and research activities of the Whiting School and our department. Mike has been recognized for his contributions to Engineering as well as the Hopkins Community at large by his exceptional commitment, dedication and service to the department and the school.

Article in The Institute

3/07/08: Professor Allison Okamura has been appointed an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions of Haptics. An article about the new journal that includes Okamura's work on educational haptics is described in an article in IEEE's publication The Institute.

Professor Hemker new ASME Fellow

2/26/08: Professor Kevin Hemker has been elected a Fellow of ASME, the citation including: "...Dr. Hemker is one of the world's leading researchers at the interface of materials science, novel test methods, and solid mechanics..."

Cover Article in PLoS Computational Biology

2/25/08: A team lead by Profs. Noah Cowan (Mechanical Engineering) and Eric Fortune (Psychological and Brain Sciences) reported a new mathematical model of brain circuits in the cover article of the February 2008 issue of PLoS Computational Biology. The work (funded by NSF) was inspired by a species of weakly electric fish.

Nature Materials Article Published

2/14/08: Professor Kevin Hemker, chair of the mechanical engineering department, has an article on nanoscale deformation published in Nature Materials.

Best Poster Award

2/29/08: Sarthak Misra, K. T. Ramesh, and Allison M. Okamura's paper "Physically Valid Surgical Simulators: Linear versus Nonlinear Tissue  Models" was awarded a Best Poster Award at the Medicine Meets Virtual  Reality
conference. The MMVR conference was held at Long  Beach, California from January 29 - February 1, 2008.

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