Department of Mechanical Engineering

Rochester students invent solutions for project sponsors ranging from major league sports teams to researchers in Costa Rica.

Beth Greenwood ’22—the first American woman catcher in NCAA baseball history—has joined Phillies' minor league affiliate as a development coach.

This is the first time since 2009 that three University faculty members have been elected in one year.

Rochester researchers have discovered a new class of plasma oscillations, paving the way for improved particle accelerators and commercial fusion energy.

Rochester researchers are uncovering the unexpected role of grain shape in the mixing of granular systems such as pharmaceuticals, cereal, and landslides.

Techniques developed with the Laboratory for Laser Energetics’ OMEGA laser system hold promise for sparking fusion at larger scales.

Scientists outline new processes for leveraging hafnia’s ferroelectric features to enhance high-performance computing.

Using mechanical rather than statistical analysis, an international team of scientists offers a new framework for understanding the climate system.

Rochester scientists have developed deep-learning models that can sift through the massive amounts of data generated by X-ray diffraction techniques.

“We’ve combined the idea of a memristor and a phase-change device in a way that can go beyond the limitations of either device,” says Stephen Wu, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering and of physics.