School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering Magazine 2022
January 2022
Our resilient Cougar spirit
From Dr. Dutta, Director: I’m proud of the ingenuity and hard work of our faculty and students in finding solutions to the many engineering challenges of our times.
Students win top NASA honor
A WSU team won the Artemis Award at NASA’s Breakthrough, Innovative and Game-changing Idea Challenge for their prototype to clean lunar dust from spacesuits.
Advanced manufactured super foam
Researchers used advanced manufacturing to develop the super light, strong, and porous foams with excellent structural, mechanical, and electrical properties.
Detecting glyphosate in beverages
Engineers developed a low cost sensor and tested it on orange juice and rice beverage samples that they spiked with the herbicide.
Tiny robot earns world record
Weighing about three grains of rice and not much bigger than a real beetle, Néstor O. Pérez-Arancibia’s Robeetle is included in the Guinness Book of World Records.