CWRUbotix, Case Western Reserve University’s premier robotics club, attended the 2022 MATE World Championship last month. Competing with their underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle, the “CWRUstacean,” the team scored second place in both the Product Demonstration and Technical Documentation categories, placing fifth overall out of 20 teams from across the globe.

Meet Anne Straits, biomedical engineering student working with CWRU's Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering on a research opportunity with Veterans Affairs. Her project focuses on developing a simple prototype of the prosthetic liner.

Find out what mechanical engineering student Ashwin Menon is doing during his internship at Swagelok Company this summer! He also share's how CWRU and Case School of Engineering has prepared him for a role like this.

This summer Sameera Nalin Venkat, PhD student in Materials Science and Engineering, is working an internship at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory analyzing atomic force microscopy images of fluoropolymers and investigating crystallization kinetics.

During the summer months when campus gets quieter, we like to learn more about what our students are up to! Issac Kozak, fourth-year aerospace engineering student, is interning with Zin Technologies and working with parts of the Universal Stage Adapter on NASAs SLS rocket that will take the Artemis Missions to the moon.

Less than a year after Alp Sehirlioglu came to the United States to start his graduate studies, he attended the American Ceramic Society’s 1999 conference and gave his first poster presentation, which focused on sol-gel coating of piezoelectric particles. Having not had similar conferences to attend in his native Turkey, he was enthralled to meet “big names” in the ceramic industry whose names he knew from papers. That same year, Sehirlioglu, now an Associate Professor in Case Western Reserve University’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering, joined the Society as a student member, and more than twenty years later, he has been named an ACerS Fellow.

When Case Western Reserve research showed that artificial intelligence (AI) could identify which lung cancer patients would benefit from chemotherapy, a national magazine called the finding one of the “10 Most Incredible Medical Breakthroughs of 2018.” Four years later, the university has signed an exclusive license agreement with Picture Health that aims to turn the promise of such AI tools into a reality that ultimately benefits patients around the globe.

Robert Gao has a vast international educational background. After growing up in Beijing, China, and completing his undergraduate degree there, he studied in Germany for graduate school and then moved to the United States, where he’s worked at various universities for more than 30 years.

Ankit Sharma, a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Case Western Reserve University, was one of four early career researchers selected worldwide for the Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE) Foundation Grand Challenges Initiative with a fellowship of $5,000.

Youngjin Yoo, professor of design and innovation, and Erman Ayday, assistant professor in the Department of Computer and Data Sciences, were awarded a one-year, $250,000 grant from the Walmart Foundation to develop a report identifying key socio-technical challenges and principles to design and implement a universal learning and employment record (LER) ecosystem. 

Case Western Reserve University biorobotics pioneers Hillel Chiel and Roger Quinn join scientist alum Vickie Webster-Wood from Carnegie Mellon on new project. The researchers are mainly focused on further improving what they and other researchers call “soft graspers,” robotic limbs that can pick a peach or mushroom, for example, without damaging it.

Matthew Willard, professor of materials science and engineering at Case Western Reserve University, helped lead the 15th Joint Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (MMM) – International Magnetics (Intermag) Conference in January.

Stephen Timothy will be graduating in May with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. He chose that program because "I've always had a knack for building things, math, and science."

Elahe Farghadany will be graduating in May with a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering. She is looking forward to a career in which she can promote sustainability.  

Kathryn Medrow will be graduating in May with a degree in Polymer Science & Engineering with a minor in Biomedical Engineering and Music. She passed on this advice to those who come after: "If you want to pursue something, whether it’s a certain major, activity, research, or sport, don’t let the fear of failing stop you from trying."