Department of Mechanical Engineering
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Associate Professor Brendan Englot is appointed as SIAI new director |
The Stevens Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI) is an interdisciplinary, tech-driven collaboration of engineering, business, systems and design experts working toward solving pressing global problems in industry and the world. Brendan Englot, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering has been appointed as the new director of SIAI.
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| Stevens Team to Advance Robot-Assisted Exercise Therapy |
Principal investigator (PI) Damiano Zanotto, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and co-PI Kishore Pochiraju, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies, along with co-PI Dr. Karen Nolan of the Kessler Foundation, have recently been awarded a grant of $1.19 million from the Department of Defense for their project "Machine Learning Methods to Individualize Powered Orthotic Intervention for Improved Functional Recovery after Lower Extremity Trauma."
This project will address two major drawbacks of current orthotic technology for patients with reconstructed lower limbs: namely the lack of automated procedures to fabricate AFOs that conform to a patient’s body, in order to improve comfort; and the lack of control methods to self-tune the level of assistance of a powered AFO to the user’s changing motor performance, in order to promote their active participation in therapeutic exercises and ultimately enhance rehabilitation outcomes.
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Assistant Professor Long Wang to Develop Robotic Hands Technology System and Digital Human Model
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Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Long Wang has recently been awarded a grant of $199,995 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his project "Tool-Grasping Compliance and Stability of Underactuated Hands in Model-Mediated Telemanipulation."
The project will leverage artificial intelligence to develop a complete, cost-effective solution for operating remotely controlled robotic hands with high levels of control, dexterity, and situational awareness to perform complex manual manufacturing tasks.
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Long Wang, has also been awarded a grant of $361K from the Defense Health Agency award for his project “Digital Human Model for Use in Simulation Environments for Tactile Human/Robot Interaction” (with Corvid Technologies as prime).
This project aims to develop a biomechanically accurate digital human body model that can estimate (a) grasping contact forces and (b) joint moments during HRI manipulation.
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Professor Christophe Pierre Receives GULde Consortium Grant |
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Jess H. Davis Endowed Chair Christophe Pierre received $100K from GUIde Consortium for his project “Development of a Predictive Software Suite for the Nonlinear Analysis of Centrifugal Compressors and Axial Turbine Stages." This award is part of a $400K project in collaboration with Polytechnique Montreal and McGill University. The GULde Consortium consists of NASA and turbomachinery industrial partners and is managed by Duke University.
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Assistant Professor Christopher Sugino Receives DOE Grant |
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Christopher Sugino has recently been awarded a grant of $24,382 from the DOE with Georgia Tech prime for his project "Characterization of the Efficiency and Output Power of Fixed and Detatchable Ultrasonic Power Transfer Demos.
This project will experimentally characterize the efficiency and output power of fixed and detachable ultrasonic power transfer demos developed by Georgia Tech and delivered
to the sponsor (Sandia National Labs) as main project outcomes. It will also characterize the data bandwidth, data rates, and signal-to-noise ratio achieved by ultrasonic data transfer prototypes to be delivered to the sponsor.
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Assistant Professor Jason Rabinovitch Receives JPL Grant |
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Jason Rabinovitch has recently been awarded a grant of $17,000 from JPL to investigate Martian dust dynamics.
This project used advanced image-processing techniques to extract information from six helicopter flights, all low-resolution videos captured by Perseverance. By identifying tiny variations between video frames, and the light intensity of individual pixels, the researchers were able to calculate both the size and the total mass of dust clouds kicked up as Ingenuity took off, hovered, maneuvered, and landed.
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ASME Features Mechanical Engineering Department in New Video Series |
In an assembly hall in the Edwin A. Stevens Building, an ASME gathering was held on April 7, 1880, where the association was officially chartered. This month, ASME paid tribute to its long and close ties by featuring the university’s research in a series of videos recorded on Stevens’ Hoboken campus. The channel includes videos of Associate Professor Brendan Englot and Associate Professor Robert Chang's research labs.
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Mechanical Engineering Town Hall Meeting |
On January 25th, the Mechanical Engineering Department hosted its first ever town hall meeting. This was offered for students to have an opportunity to learn more about the department and network with ME faculty. The meeting covered a department overview, undergraduate programs, AMP and graduate programs, research and career opportunities and ended with an open forum Q&A session. A networking opportunity with ME faculty was provided during the food and refreshmant part of the meeting.
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