News & Announcements

Jul 24, 2016

A Quick Bite, Interface Focus, Journal of the Royal Society

A crossbow bolt is fired into a slab of ballistics jelly, but this is not a crime scene investigation – it’s a reconstruction of a snake attack. … View video at http://www.bpod.mrc.ac.uk/archive/2016/7/10 Image/video from work by Philip Anderson, Jeffrey LaCosse and Mark Pankow 

Jul 24, 2016

Puncturing Prey, APS Physics Central

…An interdisciplinary team of researchers recently started building a framework to answer questions like these with high-speed puncturing experiments, described in the journal Interface Focus. The team includes paleontologist and evolutionary biologist Philip Anderson from the University of Illinois, physics teacher Jeff LaCosse from Charles E. Jordan High School, and mechanical engineer Mark Pankow from… 

Jul 24, 2016

Tyler Goode Receives NSF Fellowship

Two of our Mechanical Engineering graduate students, Ms. Samantha White and Mr. Tyler Goode, were selected to receive the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.  Samantha joined our department in the fall after finishing her undergraduate degree in ME at Tennessee Tech.  Her research topic is exploring “Strategic Excess Placement for Engineered System Evolution (Adviser: Dr. Scott…