06/04
2025Recently, at the 31st International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences (ICCES 2025) held in Changsha, Academician Zhang Weihong from NPU was awarded the prestigious J. N. Reddy Medal in the field of mechanics. This honor recognizes his pioneering contributions to topology optimization methods for aerospace structural systems and high-performance cutting technolo...
03/31
2025The research achievement titled A low-cost picowatt calorimeter using a flexible printed circuit board by Prof. Pavel Neuzil's group at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, was published in Nature Communications. This study was supported by funding from the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the National Key Research and Development Program ...
12/02
2024On the morning of November 29, Professor Didier Queloz, the 2019 Nobel Prize laureate in Physics from the University of Cambridge, visited the "Tiandu-Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU) Joint Laboratory for Deep Space Exploration" at the School of Mechanical Engineering.Didier Queloz is a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Cambridge,...
09/06
2024On August 27, 2024, the 11th Asia-Pacific International Symposium on Advanced Reliability and Maintenance Modeling (APARM 2024) was held in Nagoya, Japan. The conference brought together top reliability researchers from the Asia-Pacific region to discuss the latest research advancements and share best practices, aiming to address the diverse reliability challenges facing society today. The symp...
06/30
2024Recently, the U.S. News & World Report released its 2024-2025 Best Global Universities Subjects Rankings. Northwestern Polytechnical University's (NPU) Mechanical Engineering discipline has been ranked 3rd globally in these subject rankings. This represents a significant improvement over the previous year, highlighting the discipline's increasingly distinctive characteristics, substantially enh...