Mechanical & Materials Engineering

WCVB's Chronicle program highlighted two student-led initiatives focused on building a remote-controlled plane and rockets. Students shared their skyward work for Wings of Gompei, a Major Qualifying Project by students in mechanical engineering that took part in an international competition in Texas, and the High Power Rocketry Club, a student organization that participates in a variety of competitions.

Professor Danielle Cote's work on a groundbreaking initiative that could transform additive manufacturing by enabling the rapid production of high-quality components from scrap metal has been featured in several publications including Interesting Engineering and The Engineer.

The Boston Globe reported on AM Batteries which held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the completion of its “Customer Success Center." The company was co-founded by Professor Yan Wang, William Smith Foundation Dean's Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and based on dry-electrode technology developed in his lab at WPI. 

Jiawei Yang, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering who is affiliated with the Department of Biomedical Engineering, is developing a new class of medical adhesives to safely and reliably connect human tissues to therapeutic devices implanted in the body, such as pacemakers, insulin pumps, and artificial joints.