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Pamela Marie Norris, Ph.D., professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, has been conferred the prestigious UVA Raven Award.

University of Virginia engineering professors Daniel Quinn and John Lach, working with UVA asthma physician Dr. Larry Borish, are developing and testing innovative sensor systems that, once fully designed and implanted in a patient’s trachea, should help detect sudden asthma attacks before they...

UVA aerospace 4th year students win NASA aircraft design competition (again)

Strategic Approach Leads to Double-Digit Increases in Sponsored Research Funding

UVA Engineering’s focus on bold research in areas of societal need is earning results: Sponsored research funding increased by 36 percent between fiscal years 2016 and 2017, and...

Members of the Virginia Baja Racing Club designed and built an open-wheel, off-road racecar, inspired by the buggies that cut through the notoriously unforgiving desert course of the Baja 1000 off-road race.

"The magnitude of this on/off thermal conductivity ratio is large enough where we can now envision applications including not only smart fabrics, but also more efficiently...

Assistant Professor Baoxing Xu has teamed with electronics engineers at Purdue to create “electronic stickers,” where electronic circuits are “printed” onto peelable thin film...

Researchers develop mechanical structure that changes the rules for fabricating materials

UVA mechanical engineer, professor and nuclear weapons expert Houston Wood weighs in on North Korea and Iran.

Mechanical Engineers at the University of Virginia and electrical engineers at Purdue University have developed a new fabrication method that makes tiny, thin-film electronic circuits peelable from a surface. Eventually, these stickers could also facilitate wireless communication. The researchers...