Case School of Engineering

A few years ago, a passion for chemistry and intrigue in engineering led Joseph Toth to an African village, where he helped bring electricity to a family for the first time. Now, Toth is going global again. Only this time, that drive and enthusiasm have earned him a spot as a Fulbright Scholar. Aft...

As a mechanical engineering major, Rachel Laveson is accustomed to solving problems on the fly. In fact, that’s what drew her to engineering in the first place. That skill has come in handy many times this summer for Laveson, who is interning in the Engineering Education Summer Outreach program. T...

Courtesy of the Case School of Engineering Members of the Case Western Reserve University community now have a new place to take a seat and recharge—literally. Solar Powered charging table on Case Quad. This spring, a group of students built a picnic table outfitted with solar panels and a batte...

Turning the art of a trefoil knot into polymer science is no easy process, but researchers at Case Western Reserve University developed a technique that produces a long chain molecule with the desired pretzel-like shape. Knotted polymers, sometimes found in nature, produce different properties than...

Gerald Saidel, professor of biomedical engineering, and Harihara Baskaran, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, co-authored a new textbook titled Biomedical Mass Transport and Chemical Reaction: Physicochemical Principles and Mathematical Modeling. Available now, the book teaches the...

Risk score would determine who would benefit from chemoradiation alone Researchers estimate that, in the United States annually, up to 10,000 rectal cancer patients undergo unnecessary surgery, and more than 25,000 suffer from pelvic sepsis, wound infection and permanent impairments from aggressive ...

Rigoberto C. Advincula, professor of macromolecular science and engineering, was an invited speaker at TECHCONNECT 2016 in Washington, D.C. The event, which was held in May, is considered the premier nanotechnology and business innovation conference. With more than 900 paper submissions, only 5 pre...

Researchers from Case Western Reserve University, NASA John H. Glenn Research Center and around the world will perform the largest fire-safety experiment ever in space when the unmanned Cygnus cargo module backs a safe distance from the International Space Station (ISS), scheduled for this afternoon...

Rigoberto Advincula, professor of macromolecular science and engineering, recently received a $300,0000 grant from the National Science Foundation for his work, titled "Supramolecularly Templated Living REP-ROP Polymerizations and Block Copolymers.” Celtic art, Boy Scout knots, Mobius strip ring ...

Finding may help in understanding memory formation, treating epilepsy Researchers at Case Western Reserve University discovered a new way that brain waves spread through the hippocampus—a possible step toward understanding and treating epilepsy. The researchers discovered a traveling spike generato...