Harvey Mudd College Department of Engineering

HMC engineering professor Whitney Fowler and her team of Mudders build molecular systems to address challenges presented by the global water crisis. Working at the intersection of engineering, chemistry, materials science and biology, the team has engineered self-assembling nanofibers with illuminating properties. https://bit.ly/fowler-hmc.

HMC Professor of Engineering Joshua Brake and his research group are developing a tool to use light channeled inside plant stems and roots to monitor plant health. What might this research lead to? Listen to this Academic Minute, https://bit.ly/am-brake.

Engineering Students Make Impactful Discovery | Harvey Mudd College News Engineering Students Make Impactful Discovery March 20, 2024 Share story Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email During a chemical science experiment in fall 2022, Harvey Mudd College engineering students JT Griffin ’23, Arpita Bhutani ’23 and Evan Flitz POM ’22 made a discovery that could lead to mor...

Engineering professor Steven Santana will use a seed grant he received from the Social Science Research Council's Sloan Scholar Mentoring Network to study the printing of biomaterials for tissue-engineering applications. Learn more about the work Santana and his research students are planning on the HMC news page at https://bit.ly/santana-ssrc.

Ryan O’Hara ’24 is on a mission to protect and restore the oceans. With support from a 776 Fellowship, O’Hara’s startup, Apsis Robotics, will benefit from a $100,000 grant and a network of investors and founders to fight climate change. Read about O’Hara’s desire to apply his scientific expertise to real-world applications: https://bit.ly/hmc-ohara.

Engineering professor Matthew Spencer is the new director of the makerspace at Harvey Mudd! A hub of student creativity, the makerspace fosters collaboration among all students at The Claremont Colleges. Read more about what goes on there at https://bit.ly/makerspace-spencer.

Harvey Mudd College entrepreneurs won first, second and fourth place in the SageTank pitch competition. Run by Pomona Ventures, the SageTank event draws teams from The Claremont Colleges to share their startup pitches with a panel of experienced judges and a live audience. Read more on the HMC website https://bit.ly/3MWQQmz.

Congratulations to Engineering major Alisha Chulani and the entire CMS Women's Tennis team on their NCAA Championship! Alisha is featured in this LG Documentary (https://vimeo.com/828357296/8dbffad4e9) on the CMS/PP rivalry, which includes footage of Alisha working in the E80 lab.

Watson Fellow Sidney Taylor ’23 will work alongside artists and engineers to discover how they ignite civic imagination through large-scale, public art creation. Read about Taylor’s hopes and inspiration for her project, “How Art Build Community, How Communities Build Art,” on the HMC website at https://bit.ly/hmc-taylor.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is supporting an exciting interdisciplinary project at HMC. Engineering professor Steven Santana '06 and his students will employ learning from across STEM fields to enhance the understanding of cell communication through extracellular vesicles. Full article at HMC.edu https://bit.ly/santana-nsf.

On March 7, NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration astronaut, HMC Bates Program and physics alumnus George "Pinky" Nelson ’72 presented 2022 Astronaut Scholarships to HMC recipients Amani Maina-Kilaas ’23 and Alec Vercruysse ’23. Maina-Kilaas (CS/math) and Vercruysse (engineering) talked about their research at Harvey Mudd and participation in the Astronaut Scholars program, while Nelson gave a talk about his experiences as an astronaut in the 1980s and his career since then. Watch the presentation at https://youtu.be/Y-Au-Q5nT2s