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Mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Chris Li was inspired by abalone shells when designing a new material called a "graphene superalloy."

Read the digitized version of the UVA Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering newsletter.

We are excited to announce faculty searches for Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Virginia with a focus on biomechanical engineering for health, cyber-...

Improving Soldiers’ Survivability and Performance with Ballistics Injury Modeling

Battle armor did not go away with gladiators and medieval knights. Modern U.S. soldiers often carry more than 100 pounds of body armor and other gear. Mechanical engineering Ph.D...

A New Book Highlights the Ongoing Contributions of UVA Women in Nanotechnology

Book: Women in Nanotechnology: Contributions from the Atomic Level and Up Co-edited by Executive Dean Pamela M. Norris

Materials Science Meets Nanoscale Heat Transfer

Scientists estimate that more than 60% of energy consumed in the United States is wasted. “The question is, ‘How do we make materials that can be more energy efficient, that can...

Ambitious UVA-Led Wind Energy Team, Powered by $6.1 Million in Grants, Partners with GE Global Research Center on Giant Wind Turbines

If successful, the revolutionary extreme-scale wind turbine would provide 25 MW of energy — five times the energy output of a conventional turbine — and not only make offshore...

A UVA Engineering Team is Designing a New 3-D Printing System that Detects and Automatically Fixes Tiny Flaws, with Potential for Massive Savings for the Additive Manufacturing Industry

Virginia School of Engineering Ph.D. students develop sensors and computer code that could revolutionize additive manufacturing.

Associate Professor Matt Panzer is one of the world’s leaders on state-of-the-art modeling and simulation of the brain's response to mechanical loads according to a special issue of Annals of Biomedical Engineering published by Springer

Balachandran Brings Machine Learning to the Search for New Materials

Prasanna Balachandran is one of 20 rising stars identified by the editors of Computational Materials Science.