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Mechanical Engineering Highlights

  • Mechanical Engineering Professor Miles Greiner was appointed to the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board on Sept. 27, 2024. President Biden announced Greiner’s appointment to the board, an independent federal agency that performs independent technical and scientific peer review of the U.S. Department of Energy’s activities related to managing and disposing of high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel. Professor Greiner is the program director for the Nuclear Packaging Graduate Program. 
  • Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor Jun Zhang is working on a new type of soft, flexible “muscle” for robots, called a coiled string actuator. The National Science Foundation is supporting this work with a $300,000, three-year grant. The project, “Modeling, Self-Sensing, and Control of Novel Coiled String Actuators with Application to Compliant Manipulation,” could help create more advanced and compact robots that move more like living things.

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White House appoints Miles Greiner to national board

Greiner’s research on nuclear packaging leads to appointment to board that reviews Department of Energy activities

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Undergraduate researchers helping combat climate change by transforming greenhouse gases

Quinn Padovan and Caden Kuster awarded 3 Nevada Undergraduate Research Awards, presented twice at Wolf Pack Discoveries

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New understanding of fly behavior has potential application in robotics, public safety

Mechanical Engineering faculty publish findings in Current Biology

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