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Mar 16, 2026
NSF CAREER Award To Develop Next-Generation Energy Diagnostics
MIE Assistant Professor Juner Zhu received a $630K NSF CAREER award for “Interpretable Electro-Chemo-Mechanical Analytics, Diagnostics, and Artificial Intelligence for Porous Electrodes.”
Mar 12, 2026
Industrial Engineering Students Publish Findings on Dual Substance Use and Treatment Success
The research conducted by Logan Kane, E’26, industrial engineering, in collaboration with Sahil Shikalgar, PhD’26, industrial engineering, in a data science workshop offered by MIE Associate Professor Md Noor E Alam on “Investigating the Effect of Secondary Cannabis Use on Treatment Discontinuation Among Individuals Undergoing Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment” was published in Substance Use & Misuse.
Mar 12, 2026
Zheng Named Fellow of the American Society of Thermal and Fluids Engineers
MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng was elevated to the grade of Fellow of the American Society of Thermal and Fluids Engineers (ASTFE) for his “advances in micro/nanoscale radiative heat transfer via functional energy materials and metamaterials, energy storage, and solar desalination for efficient, sustainable energy systems.”
Mar 10, 2026
Patent for New Tool to Improve Accuracy of Injectable Drug Delivery
MIE Professor Hongwei Sun was awarded a patent to develop a “Multifunctional micropillar-enabled acoustic wave viscometer.”
Mar 03, 2026
Why Rechargeable Batteries Break Down Over Time
MIE Assistant Professor Juner Zhu’s research on “Electrode strain dynamics in layered intercalation battery cathodes” was published in Science.
Mar 03, 2026
Optimizing Energy Absorption in Lattice Structures via Intermediate Stochasticity
MIE Assistant Professors Juner Zhu and Ruobing Bai published their research on “Exploring the Role of Stochasticity in Lattice Structures for Crush Energy Absorption Capabilities” in Thin-Walled Structures.
Mar 03, 2026
Busnaina to Serve as Lunch Keynote at CMSE 2026
University Distinguished and MIE William Lincoln Smith Professor Ahmed Busnaina will discuss “High-throughput Additive Manufacturing of Microelectronics including Passive and Active Components for 3D HI, Legacy Electronics and Advanced Packaging” as the Lunch & Learn Keynote Speaker at the 29th Annual Components for Military & Space Electronics Conference & Exhibition.
Feb 19, 2026
Improving the Durability of Wearable Health Monitors and Flexible Displays
MIE Assistant Professor Ruobing Bai published his research on “Prevalent Low Interfacial Fatigue Threshold in Pressure-Sensitive Adhesives” in the Journal of Applied Mechanics.