- Mar. 3, 2023
PhD student wins funding from NASA and develops multidisciplinary team of undergraduate students to build novel machine
Vishnu Ramasamy is well versed in working with 3D printers. He’s even worked on building one that is capable of 3D printing wind turbine blades. Now, he’s taking the next step, designing and building the Arc One, an open-source low-cost, modular machine that 3D prints metal using Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM)—a production process used to 3D print or repair metal parts.
- Mar. 2, 2023
VCIC team places 3rd at national competition with help of two engineering students
Venture capital isn’t just for business majors and two second-year engineering students can prove it.As members of the Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC) team, Evelin Urbancsok and Amos Langsner traveled to Chicago in February to compete in the regional VCIC competition where they took home third place.
- Mar. 2, 2023
New Faculty Spotlight: Melinda Lake-Speers
After shadowing her father, a mechanical engineer, as part of a class in eighth grade, Melinda Lake-Speers was inspired to sign up for an introductory engineering and design course in high school. “After that, I found out I liked the whole [engineering] process,” she said. “From brainstorming to making CAD drawings to building a final prototype.”
- Feb. 23, 2023
New Faculty Spotlight: Brian Taylor
With his face pressed against the glass of the airport window, a young Brian Taylor asked his father who was responsible for building airplanes. When his father told him it was the job of aeronautical engineers, he knew that was the career for him. Now, Taylor, who is a triple alumnus of the Case School of Engineering Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, has assumed the role of assistant professor in the department.
- Feb. 23, 2023
CWRU brings home first place at Autonomous Snowplow Competition
Case Western Reserve University brought home first place at the Autonomous Snowplow Competition (ASC) in January, but the road to number one had some bumps. With the aim of challenging students in the areas of robotic navigation and guidance, the ASC tasks student teams with constructing robotic snow plows that must clear an artificial test course filled with snow. Ian Adams, Shane Riddle, Clayton Jackson, Austin Mills and Nathan Mengers are the PhD students and Biorobotics Group members that took on the challenge.
- Feb. 14, 2023
National Academy of Inventors names eight Case Western Reserve University researchers to 2023 class of senior members
Eight researchers affiliated with Case Western Reserve University have been named senior members of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI)—the largest class ever from the university—and from any member institution since the academy began the awards in 2018.
- Feb. 14, 2023
Spartan Showcase: Sebastian Saintignon
When it comes to having a global perspective, Sebastian Saintignon is well versed. His father’s career led Saintignon’s family to live in such varied places as Arizona, Mexico, the Kingdom of Bahrain and California during his childhood, leading him to learn how to be open-minded and comfortable in new environments.
- Feb. 14, 2023
Quest for blood surrogate gets $46 million boost: Case Western Reserve plays key research role
University of Maryland leads team of multiple universities and biotech companies; CWRU to evaluate and optimize synthetic blood products
- Jan. 20, 2023
Spartan Showcase: Franco Kraiselburd
Inspired by his early experiences working in a medical lab, Franco Kraiselburd founded Asclepii, a startup focused on improving wound care with stem cells. Kraiselburd, a junior biomedical engineering student from Argentina, recently learned more about entrepreneurship at CES as a Veale Snyder Fellow. Next, he’ll travel to Barcelona later this semester to gain more insight.
- Jan. 20, 2023
Supersonic science: Case Western Reserve University to conduct 9,000 mph ballistics tests into water tank
Sometime next summer, on the second floor of a research building on the Case Western Reserve University campus, scientists hope to record something the world has never witnessed: The moment of impact when an 18-millimeter-diameter projectile hits a wall of water at 9,000 miles per hour. What will occur in that instant and in the subsequent milliseconds—expected to be captured in detail by high-speed cameras—is a tantalizing mix of “knowns, unknowns and what-if’s,” according to Bryan Schmidt, the project’s lead researcher.
- Dec. 14, 2022
Three engineering classes utilize mixed-reality to bring course concepts to life
It’s not everyday you walk into a classroom and see students using mixed-reality headsets to learn new concepts. This semester, three classes in the Case School of Engineering incorporated the HoloLens technology into their lesson plans, allowing students to learn in a new, highly visual and interactive way.
- Dec. 12, 2022
Umut Gurkan attends first ever U.S. National Academy of Sciences’ U.S.-Africa Frontiers of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Symposium
Bringing artificial intelligence, materials science, biodiversity, climate change and food security, and infectious diseases researchers together from the United States and Africa, the U.S.-Africa Frontiers of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, inspires meaningful cross-disciplinary discussions and research collaborations.
- Dec. 8, 2022
Researchers Markowitz, Tyler elected fellows for 2022 class of National Academy of Inventors
Case Western Reserve University researchers Sanford “Sandy” Markowitz and Dustin Tyler have been elected fellows of The National Academy of Inventors (NAI). The honor highlights the overall career and impact individual inventors have had in their field and society.
- Dec. 7, 2022
Bryan Schmidt receives awards from Office of Naval Research, Air Force Office of Scientific Research and National Science Foundation
From an early age, Bryan Schmidt was fascinated by things that went fast. Now an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering who is also an alumnus of the department, Schmidt has received two awards that will help bring those interests to life in his lab through hypersonic flight experiments.
- Nov. 16, 2022
Alumnus and two students launch startup aimed at cleaner water
It all started as a hobby driven by a simple fact: “94% of tap water in the United States contains microplastic fiber.” Now, alumnus Max Pennington (CWR ‘22), and fourth-year students David Dillman and Chip Miller are co-founders of a business with cutting-edge, patent-pending technology that could transform the way the world uses water.
