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Mechanical Engineering Highlights
- Professor Eric Wang has been selected as the 2023 recipients of the Paul and Judy Bible University Teaching Excellence Award. This award is given to recognize and celebrate outstanding teaching by University of Nevada, Reno faculty members.
- Assistant Professor Aditya Nair is the principle investigator of a winning Department of Defence Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research grant for fiscal year 2022, with a $600,000 award. Assistant Professor Floris van Breugel is collaborating on the project.
- Ph.D. students Theodore (Teddy) Maranets and Haoran Cui each won best poster awards at the Micro-Nano Forum of the 2022 American Society of Mechanical Engineers' International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition® (ASME IMECE) conference. Teddy, co-advised by professors Miles Grenier, Mustafa Hadj-Nacer and Yan Wang, received a first-place Best Poster Award, while Haoran, co-advised by Lei Cao and Yan Wang, received a third- place Best Poster Award.
Mechanical engineering news
Engineering students team up with Tesla to build a mobile, electric power station
‘Mobile Power Station,’ other senior capstone projects will be showcased on campus May 5 at Innovation Day
Mechanical Engineering grad student wins Post Foundation Scholarship
National prize recognizes those studying nuclear waste management
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