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  • Invention by MAE faculty featured in Discovery Channel

    The Fingertip Digitizer, developed by mechanical engineer Young-Seok Kim and Thenkurussi Kesavadas, director of University of Buffalo's Virtual Reality Lab, could be used for everything from inputting information into a computer or PDA to transferring the physical characteristics of an object to a computer for design purposes. >>

  • UB MAE Professor speaks on NPR: Was U.K. Bomb Plot Plausible?

    Authorities in the United Kingdom say they have arrested more than 20 people in a terror plot to plant bombs on airliners headed to the United States. Police say the suspects were planning to carry liquid explosives onto as many as 10 planes, and detonate them in mid-air. MAE Assistant Professor Paul DesJardin speaks. >>

  • UB Aerospace Professor Wins Prestigious ONR Award

    David Forliti, Ph.D., assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering in the University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, is the recipient of a Prestigious Department of Defense Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Program Award. >>

  • Kemper Lewis named executive director of NYSCEDII

    Kemper E. Lewis, Ph.D., professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University at Buffalo, has been named executive director of UB's New York State Center for Engineering Design and Industrial Innovation (NYSCEDII). >>

  • Making Engineering Interesting Leads to NSF Grant

    Kemper E. Lewis, Ph.D., is borrowing from an ages-old, medical-school teaching method to instruct his students in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University at Buffalo. >>

  • 'Smart Concrete' Could Improve Levees

    The failure of levees in the wake of Hurricane Katrina points out the need for new technologies to strengthen levees and monitor their reliability, according to Deborah D. L. Chung, Ph.D., a University at Buffalo materials scientist and inventor of "smart concrete." >>

  • Faculty recognized for international efforts

    Maria S. Horne, associate professor of theatre and dance, and D. Joseph Mook, professor and chair of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, will receive 2005 Chancellor's Awards for Internationalization to support new UB study abroad programs they are developing for summer 2006. >>

  • Adapting skills to blood flow aims to improve stroke treatment

    As a mechanical engineer, Hui Meng built her career on the study of turbulent flows generated by jet engines, aerosol particles and other aerodynamic systems. Today, she's turned her focus to biomedical engineering and is applying her skills to understanding flow in the tiny blood vessels that lead to the human brain. >>

  • Computer modeling applied to mattress design

    A team of engineers from UB's New York State Center for Engineering Design and Industrial Innovation (NYSCEDII) and the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences is applying its expertise in virtual prototyping and simulation to mattresses. >>

  • UB device "sterilizes" contaminated air

    A team of UB scientists and engineers has developed a device that in minutes, instead of months, could safely and inexpensively destroy airborne biological agents in buildings as large as the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C., which was closed for several months after anthrax was detected there in October 2001. >>

  • UB software to give military clearer picture of "theater of war"

    Researchers at UB are developing a software system that may help the U.S. military and its allied forces lift the "fog of war" in their theaters of operation. >>