The Mechanical Engineering High Tech research theme encompasses cutting-edge, smart, and innovative technologies designed to address today’s global challenges. Our advancements enable groundbreaking solutions across diverse application domains, demanding extreme performance and functionality in industries such as Health, Mobility, Energy, and more.
We open new possibilities in high-performance engineering applications by developing and refining enabling technologies like smart sensors, robotics, advanced materials, and control systems. From autonomous vehicles and medical robotics to semiconductor manufacturing and renewable energy, our research drives progress in fields that shape the future.
Four focus areas structure the broad spectrum of High Tech research in Mechanical Engineering: Materials, Sensors, Manufacturing and Systems.
News
12 September 2024
Inaugural address: Powerful design capabilities crucial for addressing societal challenges
On Friday, 13 September, Professor Matthijs Langelaar will deliver his inaugural speech, Computational Design: Shaping the Future. In his address, Langelaar, who researches algorithms for solving mechanical design problems, emphasizes how advanced design capabilities can significantly contribute to addressing societal challenges.
05 September 2024
ERC Starting Grant to redesigning the intelligence of soft robots
Cosimo Della Santina has received an ERC Starting Grant to advance the intelligence of soft robots. His research will focus on having robots interacting with their environment via multiple complex large-area contacts, similar to how an elephant wraps its trunk around a branch.
19 July 2024
David Abbink in RTL Nieuws
Rise of assistance robots at KLM and in healthcare: 'In five years, this will be very normal'
27 June 2024
Students present improvements to manure-cleaning robot
A robot that cleans cowsheds. 95 Master Robotics students have been working on this project for the past few weeks. On 13 June, they presented their robots to lecturers and client Lely, manufacturer of automated systems for dairy farmers. The students developed the control software for the robot. It had to avoid cows and other obstacles and navigate itself to places where there is manure.
11 June 2024
Rewind to the Iron Age
Reproducing a 3,000-year-old sword for your graduation project. Materials Science & Engineering student Dorien Westert is combining archaeology and materials science by studying the microstructure of iron swords. In the process, she may learn more about how people lived in the early Iron Age.
