MacLean Engineering Sciences Center places creativity on display.
By Karen Endicott
Photographs by John Sherman
Two and a half years after its groundbreaking, MacLean Engineering Sciences Center was formally unveiled September 29, 2006 to a jubilant Thayer School community. A dedication ceremony held in the new atrium that links MacLean to Cummings Hall signaled the beginning of a new era for engineering education.
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Professor Christopher Levey Explains the Big Leaps Behind a Micro Device
By Adrienne Mongan
Photographs by John Sherman
HOW SMALL?: When placed on a penny and viewed through a microscope, the microrobot looks like a blue hair on Lincoln’s chin.
Last year Dartmouth made headlines around the globe for a tiny innovation: the world’s smallest untethered mobile robot. A joint project between Dartmouth computer scientists and Thayer School engineers, the microrobot was created in the microengineering lab in Cummings Hall. We asked microengineering lab director Professor Christopher Levey, co-PI and lead creator of the breakthrough robot’s electromechanical design and fabrication, to tell us how he and his colleagues took microrobots to a whole new level.
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