Meet Dr. Daniele Vivona, Our New Assistant Professor
🎉 Welcome Dr. Daniele Vivona! 🎉 We are excited to welcome Dr. Daniele Vivona as an Assistant Professor in the School of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Manufacturing Engineering and the UConn Center for Clean Energy Engineering at the University of Connecticut! Dr. Vivona’s research explores atom-level energy conversion processes to develop innovative design solutions for ion […]
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MAM Graduate Students Take Top Spot at International ASME Student Hackathon
A team of graduate students from our School of MAM’s Computational Engineering and Design (CEaD) Lab won first place in the Autodesk challenge at the ASME IDETC/CIE 2025 Student Hackathon, held August 10–17 in Anaheim, California. Ph.D. students Kiarash Naghavi Khanghah and Hoang Anh Nguyen, advised by Dr. Hongyi Xu, earned the top spot and […]
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UConn Alum Wins ASME Best Dissertation Award
UConn graduate Zihan Wang (’24 PhD) has been honored with the ASME Design Automation Best Dissertation Award for her groundbreaking research in metamaterials. Her dissertation, “Design, Performance Evaluation and Uncertainty Analysis of Metamaterials,” was completed under the guidance of Dr. Hongyi Xu, Associate Professor in the School of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Manufacturing Engineering. Dr. Wang’s […]
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UConn Researchers Win Distinguished ASME Best Paper Award
Prof. Hongyi Xu and Prof. Farhad Imani A team of researchers from UConn has received the 2025 ASME Design for Manufacturing and the Life Cycle (DFMLC) Best Paper Award, a national honor given to only one paper each year. The award was presented at the ASME 2025 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and […]
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MAM Student Pursues In-Depth Research Project as University Scholar
Zhengyang Wei ’26, a mechanical engineering major and University Scholar, is conducting advanced research to improve the stability and efficiency of aerodynamic systems. His project focuses on analyzing shear flows, where fluid layers move at different speeds, to understand and prevent turbulence, a key challenge in fluid dynamics. Using mathematical models and stability theorems, Wei’s […]
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Making Electronic Devices Faster, More Powerful, and Better at Staying Cool
by Olivia Drake In a paper published as an Editor’s Pick in Applied Physics Letters, College of Engineering’s Georges Pavlidis outlines ways to manage heat in high-speed electronic. When electronic devices overheat, they can slow down, malfunction, or stop working altogether. This heat is mainly caused by energy lost as electrons move through a material—similar […]
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Nguyen’s Injectable Piezoelectric Gel Could Treat Osteoarthritis without Surgery
Backed by a $2.3M grant from the NIH and NIH/NIBIB, Thanh Nguyen will stimulate cartilage regeneration in large animal model. Millions of Americans suffer from osteoarthritis, a painful joint disease that wears down cartilage and can severely impact mobility. Pain medications only mask symptoms, and surgical option carry risks of infection and immune rejection. At […]
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Tarakanova Honored with Eshelby Mechanics Award for Young Faculty
As the body ages, a network of proteins and other molecules may structurally change, leading to a loss of elasticity and tissue strength in skin, joints, and arteries. This can lead to reduced muscle mass, stiffness, and increased susceptibility to chronic diseases like osteoarthritis. Anna Tarakanova, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and biomedical engineering, leads […]
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Sound Waves Go Flat
by Ira Morrison A team of UConn College of Engineering (CoE) researchers have achieved a major milestone in the field of Phononics with the first experimental demonstration of an all-flat phononic band structure (AFB). Phononics concerns the study of sound and heat control. A breakthrough, detailed in an article just published in Physical Review Letters, […]
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