MechSE Professor Leonardo Chamorro & Professor James Best from the School of Earth, Society & Environment at Illinois have been awarded a grant from NSF to investigate the behavior of clay-laden flows under intense, unsteady shear: mechse.illinois.edu/news/77579

Boneyard Creek is giving peak autumn. 🍁 📘 ✏️ 🍂 🍎 Photo credit: Heather Coit/ Illinois Grainger Engineering

How can engineering save coral reefs? Find out in the latest edition of MechSE Magazine: mechse.illinois.edu/news/magazin...

MechSE Professor Huseyin Sehitoglu has won a four-year grant from the National Science Foundation’s Division of Materials Research to analyze shear-related failure of shape memory materials: mechse.illinois.edu/news/77369

Are you a current MechSE senior who is interested in pursuing an MS or PhD? Join us on Monday, September 8th at 12pm in 3100 Lu MEB!

Professors Elizabeth Hsiao-Wecksler, Shelby Hutchens, and Kyle Smith have been selected as members of the newest cohort of faculty to join the Faculty Entrepreneurial Leadership Program (FELP) at the University of Illinois: mechse.illinois.edu/news/77263

MechSE Professor Naira Hovakimyan has been elected as a Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), one of the most prestigious honors in the field of control theory and systems engineering. mechse.illinois.edu/news/77098

We are proud to announce that the Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building renovation and expansion project has been awarded LEED Gold certification! mechse.illinois.edu/news/77106

As an elected Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, Professor Amy Wagoner Johnson was invited by the organization to serve on a workshop panel focused on the importance of advocacy in bioengineering and medical research: mechse.illinois.edu/news/76927

MechSE professor Mickey Clemon is part of an interdisciplinary research team investigating cooling methods for heat sinks by performing experiments onboard a satellite currently orbiting the earth. Read more: mechse.illinois.edu/news/76332 @uofigrainger.bsky.social

By encapsulating magnetic particles in lipid vesicles, researchers have created microscopic drug delivery containers which magnetic fields can steer to precise locations in the body. The result has promise for precision medicine and cancer treatment: mrl.illinois.edu/news/76869

Check out this awesome article from @uofigrainger about the 10th anniversary of POETS (Center for Power of Optimization of Electro–Thermal Systems): grainger.illinois.edu/news/stories... Photo credit: Heather Coit

Improving wool harvesting is a global effort. MechSE Professor Mickey Clemon has been working with University of Technology Sydney researchers to develop a safer, more efficient alternative to traditional shearing methods. Read more: mechse.illinois.edu/news/76928

WE WON!!! The Illini Solar Car Team won the 2025 Formula Sun Grand Prix single-occupant vehicle category! Our heartfelt congratulations to the brilliant team. You made your school proud. Photo credit: American Solar Challenge

The Grainger College of Engineering’s interdisciplinary undergrad team was awarded Best Technical Presentation at the NASA Human Lander Challenge forum last month! Congratulations to them and to their faculty advisor, MechSE postdoctoral researcher Vishwanath Ganesan.

MechSE Assistant Professor Justin Yim aims to develop legged robots that can emulate the speed and efficiency of their wheeled counterparts, and he has won a prestigious CAREER Award from the NSF to pursue this evolution of walking robot capability: mechse.illinois.edu/news/stories...

MechSE’s director of undergraduate programs, Stephanie Ott-Monsivais, was received the Outstanding Advisor Award from the Engineering Council: mechse.illinois.edu/news/76300

MechSE’s Electric Boat Competition Team made waves this past semester with their capstone design, the USS Illini: mechse.illinois.edu/news/stories...

MechSE Professor Naira Hovakimyan has won the 2025 Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring from The Grainger College of Engineering. Read more: mechse.illinois.edu/news/75785 @uofigrainger.bsky.social

Randy Ewoldt has been named to the 2025 class of Fellows of the Society of Rheology. Read more: mechse.illinois.edu/news/75745

This past weekend, MechSE’s Mariana Kersh was recognized with the Golden Apple Award for Engineering and Entrepreneurship at the convocation event for the Carle Illinois College of Medicine (CIMED): mechse.illinois.edu/news/75743

A new artificial intelligence system pinpoints the origin of 3D printed parts down to the specific machine that made them: grainger.illinois.edu/news/stories...

The MechSE Alumni Board has surpassed their goal of raising $100K towards scholarships and other efforts that support first-generation MechSE students: mechse.illinois.edu/news/75523...

Congratulations to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) @ Illinois for its recent award from the Engineering Council! The chapter was awarded Outstanding Society of the Year.

This summer, MechSE alumnus Lorenzo Smith (BSME 1990) will become the new Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost at Eastern Washington University (EWU). Read more: mechse.illinois.edu/news/stories... @ewueagles.bsky.social

Check out this awesome feature from The Grainger College of Engineering about MechSE sophomore Landon Lindsay and his brother, Grant Lindsay (B.S. ’25, Civil Engineering)! grainger.illinois.edu/news/stories...

For the second year running, Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building has won an Energy Conservation Incentive Program (ECIP) award from the university’s Facilities and Services unit: htmechse.illinois.edu/news/75473...

An interdisciplinary team of Grainger College of Engineering undergraduate students has been selected as a finalist in NASA’s 2025 Human Lander Challenge (HuLC). Read more: mechse.illinois.edu/news/stories...

Associate attorney James Delacenserie (BSME 2017) is among this year’s recipients of a MechSE Outstanding Young Alumni Award: mechse.illinois.edu/news/74938

Check out this episode of the SIIP and Share featuring two MechSE faculty. Teaching Associate Professor Blake Johnson interviews Emeritus Professor Chuck Tucker on the origins of SIIP: publish.illinois.edu/siipandshare/

Ruthie Lubkeman and Samridh Singh have been awarded the MechSE Staff Award for Exemplary Service for 2025. Read more: mechse.illinois.edu/news/74890

Software engineer Dr. Shantanu Shahane (PhD ME 2019) is one of this year’s recipients of a MechSE Outstanding Young Alumni Award in recognition of his prolific research and modeling efforts. Read more: mechse.illinois.edu/news/74839

MechSE and The Grainger College of Engineering community celebrated a new named appointment for Professor Taher Saif as a Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering. mechse.illinois.edu/news/74884

This past January, 36 robotics teams from 12 high schools across Illinois and Indiana faced off in the Cornfield Clash Jr. The event was hosted by the competition team Illini VEX Robotics, a registered student organization. Watch the video and read more: mechse.illinois.edu/news/74831

Professor Prashant Mehta & Associate Professor Emeritus Mike Philpott were named this year’s winners of the MechSE Alumni Effective Teaching Awards. mechse.illinois.edu/news/74770

Each spring, MechSE students are recognized for their outstanding leadership, academic achievements, and character. They were honored at the MechSE awards banquet April 11. Read more about the graduate and undergraduate recipients of the 2024-2025 departmental awards: mechse.illinois.edu/news/74740

Nuclear power requires rigorous systems monitoring and safety procedures. Machine learning could make keeping a close eye on key elements of nuclear systems easier & response time to issues faster: ncsa.illinois.edu/using-ai-to-monitor-inaccessible-locations-of-nuclear-energy-systems/

In a continued outreach project at a middle school in Urbana, Professor Naira Hovakimyan, Joe Muskin & Stephanie Ott-Monsivais, taught teams of students how to design and build their own drones: mechse.illinois.edu/news/74349

MechSE graduate student Yun Seong Kim won 2nd place at the 2025 Image of Research competition for his photo, "Helix of Growth." mechse.illinois.edu/news/74602

U.S. News and World Report has ranked the University of Illinois as the #7 best graduate program in mechanical engineering. MechSE’s MS/PhD program consistently ranks in the top ten in the country. Learn more: mechse.illinois.edu/news/74601

Grad Student Appreciation Week continues!

Check out the two most recent episodes of the SIIP and Share Podcast featuring three MechSE faculty: Mariana Kersh, Tom Golecki and Blake Johnson. SIIP and Share highlights stories of Strategic Instructional Innovations Program (SIIP) Projects: publish.illinois.edu/siipandshare/

Happy Graduate Student Appreciation Week!

Mechanical engineering alum Patrick McAuliffe (BSME 1987) has been named one of MechSE’s 2025 Distinguished Alumni Award winners. Now a board member emeritus of the MechSE Alumni Board, McAuliffe previously served terms as its vice president and president. Read more: mechse.illinois.edu/news/74348

It's Graduate Student Appreciation Week! If you're a MechSE MS or PhD student, drop by the Graduate Programs Office on Wednesday from 9am-11am to pick up a free MechSE t-shirt.

Interested in our Master of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering program? Join faculty, staff and students (current and former) for an informational meeting about MechSE’s professional master's degree program on Wednesday, April 9th at 7:00 p.m. Register here: illinois.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Professor Gang Chen was the honored speaker at the Spring 2025 Yunchuan Aisinjioro-Soo Distinguished Lecture, held March 24 in the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Auditorium. Learn more: mechse.illinois.edu/news/74339

2025 Grainger Engineering Summer Program Applications Are Now Open! Apply today! The priority deadline for Summer 2025 applications is March 30, 2025, but applications will still be considered after that date. For applications and more information, visit: wyse.grainger.illinois.edu/summer-progr...

Modeling the brain as a complete system is nebulous and complex. Using image-based, inversive mechanical modeling, MechSE Assistant Professor Callan Luetkemeyer can produce an advanced model with a laptop in a matter of minutes: mechse.illinois.edu/news/stories/74242

MechSE assistant professor Justin Yim’s research on jumping robots that leverage the biomechanical capabilities of squirrels was recently published in the high-impact journal Science Robotics. Learn more: mechse.illinois.edu/news/stories/squirrelrobot