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The making of a mechanical engineer in seven UROPs

Stephanie Chou ’19 designs and builds an interactive mechanical art sculpture

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Jeehwan Kim

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Engineering Medical Devices

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The making of a mechanical engineer in seven UROPs

Stephanie Chou ’19 designs and builds an interactive mechanical art sculpture

Tal Cohen

Ian Hunter

Building the tools of the next manufacturing revolution

Expanding education: From Africa to Cambridge and back again

Photo Gallery: Visualizing MechE Research: Scientific Photos by Felice Frankel

Model quantifies the impact of quarantine measures on Covid-19’s spread

Instrument may enable mail-in testing to detect heavy metals in water

Professor Gareth McKinley has been named a 2019 Fellow of the Royal Society

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