INSIDE
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Dashboard
A look at our research expenditures and a few superlatives for the year .
16 Synthetic duck feathers 18 Energy-harvesting railroad ties 20 Self-healing , soft electronics
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Senior Design
This year in the capstone design course .
21 Optimizing hydrogen power
22 Robots and Tails 26 The Brainy Bats of Borneo
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Faculty Advisory Board
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Department Highlights
44 Bartlett receives Young Investigator Award
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Drones for good :
African Drone and Data Academy wins an international humanitarian award .
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44 Student robotics team takes first place 45 Baja student team wins multiple awards 46 A pair of honors for Eskandarian 46 Graduate student awarded NASA grant 47 Cheng named ASME fellow
48 Williams elected chair of SME manufacturing advisors
48 American Nuclear Society scholarship 49 A new accredited drone curriculum
50 Successful cross-department lab reaches new heights
52 $ 1 million to study the mechanics of living cells
54 Swamy wins Automotive Research Center ’ s Excellence in Research Award
54 A host of honors for Sandu
55 Senior design team publishes work in top robotics journal