The Society of Engineering Science (SES) recently announced the recipients of the 2024 SES awards. Professor Zhang Yihui from the School of Aerospace Engineering at Tsinghua University won the James R. Rice Medal.The award is in recognition of his pioneering work on soft architected materials with unusual mechanical properties, rational three-dimensional (3D) assembly driven by controlled buckl...

The Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Division Award was awarded to Professor Feng Xue of Tsinghua University on the 2nd of November. It is the first time this award has been given to a Chinese scholar since its establishment in 1988.The Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Division Award, formerly known as the Applied Mechanics Award, is one of the most prestigious accolades in the field of mechani...

Zhuang Zuo, professor of Tsinghua University School of Aerospace Engineering, was elected vice president of the International Association for Computational Mechanics on July 26.IACM, established in 1980s, is an international mechanics academic organization with more than 5,100 registered members from 33 countries and regions in America, Asia-Oceania, Europe-Middle East-Africa. It has about 610 ...

A joint team from Tsinghua University and the Shanghai Institute of Satellite Engineering named TsinghuaLAD&509 has won the Global Trajectory Optimisation Competition, one of the prestigious international competitions in space mission design.This is the first time that a Tsinghua team has ever won this competition.The team won first place in the 11th Global Trajectory Optimisation Competition (...

Prof. Xue Feng group from School of Aerospace Engineering and Center of Flexible Electronics Technology, Tsinghua University, has developed skin-like integrated optoelectronic systems that can be moun...

A study by a research team from the Tsinghua School of Aerospace Engineering, in collaboration with Harvard University researchers, has revealed the key mechanisms behind deep brain stimulation (DBS) used to treat Parkinson’s disease.The findings will help to optimize treatment plans and improve the quality of life of patients with Parkinson’s disease.Published in the journalAnnals of Neurolo...