Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology are partnering with GE and Ford Motor Co. to study ways to add greater efficiencies to electric driving and charging performance.

The Institute of International Education (IIE) has selected Nico Declercq, Associate Professor of Acoustics and Dynamics in Georgia Tech’s Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, as one of twenty-five ambassadors of the PromoDoc initiative. PromoDoc is a project funded by the European Commission within the framework of the Erasmus Mundus program focusing on the promotion of European higher education at the doctoral level.

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The National Science Foundation (NSF), in support of the multi-agency, federal Materials Genome Initiative (MGI), has granted the first awards for the Desinging Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF) program. The NSF invested over $12M in 22 grants in support of 14 distinct DMREF projects intended to yield a range of new developments, including Dr.

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Norma Frank
Academic Advisor
Mechanical Engineering

Dr. William B. (Bill) Harrison III, age 89, of Mobile, Alabama, died peacefully on Wednesday, July 25, 2012 from the complications of pulmonary disease.

Bill joined the faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1953 and ultimately served as the founding Director and Professor of the School of Nuclear Engineering in 1962.

SAE International presented Caroline Genzale, Assistant Professor, with the John Johnson Award for Outstanding Research in Diesel Engines during the SAE 2012 World Congress held in Detroit.