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BS/MS student Jesse Lee (graduating this June with both degrees) was awarded the prestigious Contress-Bundestag Fellowship.
Jesse Lee has been selected to participate in the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals (CBYX), a year-long, federally-funded fellowship for study and work in Germany. He was one of 75 participants nationwide (from more than 500) who was awarded this unique opportunity. While in Germany on CBYX, Jesse will attend a two-month intensive German language course, study at a German university or professional school for four months, and complete a five-month internship with a German company in his career field (Mechanical Engineering).
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Tiny House is finished!
Northwestern students built a fully sustainable house that takes up 130 sqare feet.
[Chicago Tribune Video]
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Professor Yonggang Huang's paper is featured in the journal Nature Communications
Yonggang Huang has been collaborating with a research group in South Korea and their paper "Three-dimensional Nanonetworks for Giant Stretchability in Dielectrics and Conductors" will appear in Nature Communications, a relatively new journal in the Nature series. A student from South Korea is the lead author of the paper while Huang's students Wang and Li are the second and third authors respectively.
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Northwestern Formula Racing Revs Up for Competition
Northwestern Formula Racing is an undergraduate student group that designs, manufactures, and competes with a car build over the course of a year. The team is optimistic about the competition at Michigan International Speedway this year.
[McCormick News Article]
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Professor Belytschko recovers using KineAssist
KineAssist is a robot developed by Professors Peshkin and Colgate that sensed when Professor Belytschko was losing his balance and caught him if he fell. This helped Belytschko recover from his stroke.
[McCormick News Article]
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Professor Younggang Huan develops the electronic tattoo
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ME senior Hannah Chung named one of "15 women to watch" by Inc magazine
Hannah Chung and Aaron Horowitz develop a toy bear that teaches children with Type I diabetes how to take care of themselves.
[Inc magazine website]
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Professor Jane Wang was chair of the 2011 ASME/STLE tribology conference
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Professor Sandip Ghosal elected as a fellow of the American Physical Society - Division of Fluid Dynamics
Sandip Ghosal was given this award at the APS (DFD) Annual Meeting in Baltimore on Sunday, November 20, 2011.
[APS website]
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Professor Walter Herbst receives award from the University of Illinois
Professor Walter Herbst will be receiving the University of Illinois, Distinguished (Design) Alumni Award based on contribution to the profession.
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Professor John Rudnicki Honored by ASME
John Rudnicki received the 2011 Daniel C. Drucker Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. This medal recognizes distinguished contributions to the field of applied mechanics and mechanical engineering.
[McCormick News Article]
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Jan Achenbach Receives Rare Honorary Degree from China's Zhejiang University
Jan Achenbach received an honorary doctorate degree from China's Zhejiang University. This is a rare honor as Chinese universities bestow honorary degrees only once every five years or so.
[McCormick News Article]
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Professor Cheng Sun Designs a Terahertz Invisibility Cloak
Sun's research group has developed metamaterials to manipulate light on the terahertz frequency.
[McCormick News Article]
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Tiny House construction lead by ME graduate William Fan
A dedicated group of students from all different areas of engineering worked together to create a house smaller than some dorm rooms. The project was concieved and led by William Fan who graduated in June 2010 with a BS in ME.
[Sun-Times Article]
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Northwester Solar Car team takes third at Formula Sun Grand Prix
Northwester Solar Car team takes third at Formula Sun Grand Prix 2011 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway after racing 24 hours over three days. The solar car completed 515 laps for 463 miles.
[American Solar Challenge]
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Solar Car team races at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Follow Northwestern's Solar Car team on their Twitter as they race at the historic Indianapolis Motor Speedway for Formula Sun Grand Prix 2011
[NUSolar Twitter Feed]
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Ted Belytschko Elected to National Academy of Sciences
Northwestern University professor Ted Belytschko, an expert in computational methods for computer simulation of mechanical events such as car crash, drop and other prototype testing, has been elected a member of the prestigious U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS).
[McCormick News Article]
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Professor Mitra Hartmann selected to participate in the next class of the Defense Science Study Group
Professor Mitra Hartmann selected to participate in the next class of the Defense Science Study Group, an elite group of abour 25 rising star scientists from across the nation who participate in a broad array of activities related to national security for two years.
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Christina Barbosa wins Fulbright award
Christina Barbosa wins a Fulbright award to study at The Politecnico di Torino in Italy for the 2011-2012 school year.
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Michael Peshkin wins Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence in May
This award recognizes Michael Peshkin's longstanding dedication and extraordinary creativity in our educational mission. From conceiving and implementing EA3 to invigorating Design Competition to his latest "electronics lab in a backpack", Peshkin has long been a creative force to help us provide the best possible education to students
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