Are you interested in brushing up on your Statics skills?  Want to know what’s going on in the Woodruff School lately?  Consider taking a free massive open online course (MOOC) entitled “Introduction to Engineering Mechanics” taught by our very own Dr. Wayne Whiteman to begin on September 16. This MOOC will address the material covered in the 1^st half of the Statics course at George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech.

You’ve probably heard that Georgia Tech has a number of Interdisciplinary Research Institutes (IRIs) – but do you know much about them? Executive Director David McDowell answers questions about the newly launched Georgia Tech Institute for Materials (IMat).

Dr. Jun Ueda received an National Science Foundation (NSF) grant from the Dynamical Systems (DS) program in the Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) for his research on nonuniformly quantized actuation in biological motion generation.

The Energy Department awarded nearly $5 million to undergraduate and graduate students pursuing nuclear engineering and science degrees. The awards include 37 undergraduate scholarships (1 from Georgia Tech) and 31 graduate-level fellowships (3 from Georgia Tech) for students studying at American colleges and universities.