Dr. Leang receives the Faculty Excellence Award, recognizing his outstanding contributions that have had a transformative impact on the Mechanical Engineering Department and the College of Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno.

Congratulations to Dr. Henry Fu on winning the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, project entitled, "CAREER: Microorganisms swimming around microstructural heterogeneity".

Congratulations to Dr. Emil Geiger on his new National Science Foundation grant entitled, "Cell Sorting and Separation via High Frequency Dielectrophoresis".

Dr. Leang and his co-authors' recent journal article entitled, "Invited Review Article: High-speed flexure-guided  nanopositioning: Mechanical design and control issues" featured on the cover of the December 2012 issue of Review of Scientific Instruments.
 

The ME Department welcomes new faculty member, Dr. Angelina Padilla. She received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from UC Davis in 2006, her M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Kansas State University, and her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2012. She currently is a lecturer with primary interests in fluid dynamics, particle transport, heat transfer and engineering education.

Warm congratulations to Professor Henry Fu and his co-authors for their recent two publications in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, "Bacterial rheotaxis" by Marcos, H. C. Fu, T. R. Powers, R. Stocker, 109, 4780-4785 (2012) and "The heterogeneous motility of the Lyme disease spirochete in gelatin mimics dissemination through tissue" by M. W.Harman, S. M. Dunham-Ems, M. J. Caimano, A. A. Belperron, L. K. Bockenstedt, H. C. Fu, J. D. Radolf, and C. W. Wolgemuth, 109, 3059-3064 (2012).

Dr. Ron Gibson presented an invited keynote paper on "Experimental and numerical characterization of relaxation in bolted composite joints" at the International Congress on Experimental & Applied Mechanics organized by the Society for Experimental Mechanics, June 11-14, 2012 in Costa Mesa, CA. He also moderated an academic panel session on "New breakthroughs, future materials, preparing students to take the lead - a global perspective" at the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering Conference, May 21-24, 2012 in Baltimore, MD.

Congratulation to Dr. Emil Geiger for winning one of 30 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award from Oak Ridge Associated Universities in 2012.  His proposal was entitled: Separation of Microalgae on the Basis of Lipid Content via High Frequency Dielectrophoresis.

On May 8, 2012, Mechanical Engineering Professor Miles Greiner was awarded $745,000 from the US Department of Energy, Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP) for the project entitled "Development and Experimental Benchmark of Simulations to Predict Used Nuclear Fuel Cladding Temperatures during Drying and Transfer Operations." All moisture must be removed form used nuclear fuel assemblies before they are sealed in canisters for on-site dry storage or off-site transport. If certain assembly components become too hot during drying, they may become brittle, which inhibits their ability to be transported or stored for long periods of time. This project will develop computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models of the drying process that will accurately predict the assembly temperature. The new models will be used by engineers to design drying processes that maintain the fuel assemblies at acceptably low temperatures.

Professor Gordaninejad receives the Regents’ Researcher Award.  The Board of Regents established the Regents’ Researcher Award in 1992. This award is bestowed upon faculty members with a substantial record of accomplishments, including a significant amount of research and scholarly work with recognition, clear evidence of the national and/or international stature of the research, and in the case of grants and contracts, must have been competitive on a national or international level. The 2012 honoree is Dr. Faramarz Gordaninejad of the University of Nevada, Reno. [Read more..]

Dr. Miles Greiner, professor of Mechanical Engineering and as interim director of the Center for Renewable Energy, is leading the campus' multi-disciplinary effort to transfer the University's renewable energy know-how to the state, and the world. [Read more].

Mechanical Engineering proudly announces that Nobel Laureate Andrew Fire, Professor of Pathology and Genetics, Stanford University, will present an informal seminar on Biological Responses to Foreign Information Thursday, October 27, 2011, 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm Davidson Math and Science Center, Room 110.  [more info...]

Welcome to the Department of Mechanical Engineering!

Palmer Engineering building, home of the Mechanical Engineering Dept.

The University has nine degree-granting schools and colleges, including the School of Medicine. Students can choose from more than 75 majors for an undergraduate degree, as well as from more than 70 graduate-degree programs. Our program is directed towards preparing motivated students to become professionally competent in one of several sub-disciplines of mechanical engineering, including solid mechanics, materials, biomedical, dynamics/controls, and the fluid/thermal sciences.

Joe Crowley Student Union and Mathewson-IGT Knowledge center.