Daniel Wang describes his senior thesis work creating a drone-mounted air quality sampler. His device may be used to measure climate change indicators in the Amazon rain forrest.
It is well known that as plants grow, their stems and shoots respond to outside signals like light and gravity. But if plants all have similar stimuli, why are there so many different plant shapes?...
Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) are drawing material inspiration from the ancient Japanese paper craft of kirigami.
Direct foam writing of a hexagonal honeycomb with ceramic foam ink. After the ink solidifies, the resulting structure consists of air surrounded by ceramic on multiple length scales. The porosity ...
Metamaterials — materials whose function is determined by structure, not composition — have been designed to bend light and sound, transform from soft to stiff, and even dampen seismic waves from e...
Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have made the world’s smallest radio receiver – built out of an assembly of atomic-scale defects in pink diam...
Harvard students Grace Kossia, Rosa Bonilla, and Emily Woolway explain how viscosity played a role in the deadly "Great Molasses Flood" that occurred in Boston in 1919. The students produced this v...
Students Caroline Murphy, A.B. ’17, a music concentrator, and Catherine Curtin, A.B. ’17, a statistics concentrator, make molten chocolate cake during a lab session of "Science and Cooking: From Ha...
A light-guided bioengineered ray created by the Disease Biophysics Group at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science, led by Professor Kevin Kit Parker. This work paves...
Harvard University researchers have made the first entirely 3D-printed organ-on-a-chip with integrated sensing. Built by a fully automated, digital manufacturing procedure, the 3D-printed heart-on...
Cassie Lowell, a biomedical engineering concentrator at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, worked at Hiroshima University this summer, co-developing a glove tha...
See how different fluids behave when they are spun on a drill bit. This messy and mesmerizing video was produced by students Dallas Schray, Kai Brannon, and Paul Kaczor for their project in "Introd...
A dam can fail when the pore pressure at the base is increased so the ground behaves like a fluid. Why would this devastating problem occur? Students Lucas Cofer and Jessica Ewald explored this iss...
Students Kausalya Mahadevan and Charlie Alver explain what the Rossby Number can tell us about tornadoes and Earth's atmosphere. They produced this video for the course "Introduction to Fluid Mecha...
What factors influence how fast and how smooth liquid pours from a bottle? Students Ron Laracuente, Yuki Koide, and Kevin Shani explored the 'glugging' phenomenon in the course "Introduction to Flu...
The RoboBee, pioneered at the Harvard Microrobotics Lab, uses an electrode patch and a foam mount that absorbs shock. The entire mechanism weighs 13.4 mg, bringing the total weight of the robot to ...
Fuel cells, which generate electricity from chemical reactions without harmful emissions, have the potential to power everything from cars to portable electronics, and could be cleaner and more eff...
The 2016 Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Design and Project Fair showcasing student work from the 2015-2016 academic year.
Woodward (Woody) Yang, Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, describes the undergraduate capstone class, Engineering Sciences 100.
Harvard researchers have designed a new type of foldable material that is versatile, tunable and self actuated. It can change size, volume and shape; it can fold flat to withstand the weight of an ...
Demba Ba, Harvard SEAS Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering, describes his research interests at the intersection of theory, computing, data, and neuroscience.
Since its discovery a decade ago, scientists and tech gurus have hailed graphene as the wonder material that could replace silicon in electronics, increase the efficiency of batteries, the durabili...
Madhu Sudan, Harvard SEAS Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science, describes his research on the concept of reliability and the mechanisms that can be used by computers to interact reliably with...
Scott Kuindersma, Assistant Professor of Engineering and Computer Science, explains his focuses on increasing the efficiency, robustness, and versatility of highly dynamic and underactuated robots.
Sean Eddy, Harvard SEAS Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and of Applied Mathematics, advises students on how to choose an academic path in graduate school.
Sean Eddy, Harvard SEAS Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and of Applied Mathematics, offers advice to students interested in the biological sciences.
Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences collaborating with scientists in Finland and France have figured out how the brain folds.
The students in “Engineering Problem Solving and Design” developed this robotic snow blower (controlled remotely by a modified video gamepad) in an effort to help Harvard’s Facilities Maintenance O...
How can you fight something you can't see? Viruses like influenza spread so effectively, and as a result can be so deadly, because of their ability to spontaneously self-assemble in large numbers....
New research from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences takes a page from economics to predict whether scientific experiments can be replicated. Researchers used p...
These images capture scenes of soldiers on the present-day John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences campus during World War I and World War II. The school's Cruft High Tension Lab...
Learn about the application process and graduate programs at SEAS. Participants will be able to submit questions for the admissions staff during the session.
Why does blood sometimes flow back up an IV tube? Undergraduates Bryan Bu and Dominique Voso address this question in their final project for ES123, Introduction to Fluid Mechanics and Transport Pr...
Can smoke behave like a water? Undergraduate students John Holland and Jarvis Harris explain the physics behind a "smokefall" in their final project for ES123, Introduction to Fluid Mechanics and T...
What’s the difference between the splash made by a belly flop and a cannonball dive and how do experienced divers make no splash at all? Undergraduates Emily Bonfig and Kate Buellesbach walk you th...