Caltech Edition: Structural Engineering Design Contest Imagine yourself a Caltech undergraduate. You enter your fall term engineering class, and your professor gives you a bag of junk.

For more than 30 years mechanical engineering students at Caltech have been challenged to build robots for an annual race.

Emily Carter, Princeton University’s dean of engineering, is being honored with Caltech's 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award. In its citation, Caltech recognized Carter for “her visionary leadership in ...

Deborah D.L. Chung, SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, has been named a recipient of the 2025 Distinguished Alumni Award from Caltech.

A Caltech team is celebrating the world's first space-based wireless power transmission, and the first time detectable levels of power have been beamed down to Earth. The Space Solar Power Project ...

Scientists at Caltech are experimenting with technology designed to transmit electricity from solar panels in space back to Earth.

While superconducting qubits are great at fast calculations, they struggle to store information for long periods. A team at ...