MU’s Huang gives guest seminar at Johns Hopkins
The prestigious seminar series was hosted by the Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute. The talk was titled “Programmable and Modulated Metamaterials for Unprecedented Wave Propagation Control.”
Brand new REU materializes at Mizzou Engineering
Mizzou Engineering has been awarded a third prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site, this one with a creative twist. Principal investigator Heather Hunt, associate professor of Bioengineering; co-principal investigator Mahmoud Almasri, associate professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and the materials-focused faculty in MU’s College of Engineering found out […]
Paper illustrates how researchers can boost flexural wave sensing
Guoliang Huang, an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, led an MU research team that published “Enhanced flexural wave sensing by adaptive gradient-index metamaterials” in Scientific Reports. The paper illustrates how the team developed active metamaterials to boost the elastic wave signals in large structures.
MU professor patents improvements for mugs, swamp coolers
Hongbin (Bill) Ma and his company, ThermAvant Technologies, recently patented solutions to those temperature-related issues.
Customized patterning technique earns mechanical researcher, team high marks
Jian Lin, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, and his research team recently published a paper called “Laser induced MoS2 /carbon hybrids for hydrogen evolution catalysts” in the Journal of Materials Chemistry A.
Generosity enables hiring of renowned pavement, materials engineer
The Civil and Environmental Engineering Department recently selected Buttlar for the newly endowed position of Barton Chair in Flexible Pavement Technology, named for 1961 civil engineering alumnus Glen Barton, who helped fund the position along with the Missouri Asphalt Pavement Association.
Material interactions research plays small role in large-scale reactor development
The materials interaction research of Assistant Professor Karl Hammond is just one small part of a large, international collaboration.
New researcher brings new field of study to college
Guoliang Huang is one of four new faces on the faculty of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of Missouri College of Engineering.
Alumnus returns to MU as new faculty member
Taking on the role of assistant professor of mechanical engineering makes a full circle for Matthew Maschmann. He’ll now work with some of his former mentors, such as his adviser, Professor Bill Ma.
Researcher’s aim is to produce polymer-free custom-made bone
A chemical engineering assistant professor has made the mechanical properties of bones puzzle the cornerstone of his research program. His ultimate goal is to create custom-made bone.