Research

Bridges play an absolutely critical role within our nation’s civil infrastructure, and they duly deserve considerable attention in terms of the care and scrutiny we give to their design, construction, and maintenance. However,...

The potential for propellant-less space propulsion has spurred renewed interest in solar sailing by NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) for interplanetary and interstellar missions. Solar sails are large, lightweight...

Superhydrophobic (super-water repellant) surfaces are found in nature on the leaf surfaces of many plants such as the lotus and kohlrabi. These surfaces also exhibit a self-cleaning capability by which rolling water droplets...

Modern agricultural equipment has increasingly larger numbers of embedded information, communication, and control technologies that provide greater functionality and enable them to operate independently or seamlessly as part of...

Zhiqun Lin of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering has devised a new and facile method to organize micrometer-sized liquid crystal domains into well-ordered structures. This technology will enable major...

Researchers in the Department of Mechanical Engineering have developed an innovative technology for isolating the operators of heavy vehicles—highway tractor-trailers, utility vehicles, agricultural tractors, and construction...

Chris Chu of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has created a new software package for very large scale integration (VLSI) routing structure generation. VLSI is the process of creating integrated circuits by...