News
Dec 17, 2014
Joshua Martin wins MRS Poster Prize
MIE PhD graduate student Joshua Martin won the top poster prize at the Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting for his poster entitled "3D Printing Bio-Inspired Discontinuous Fiber Composites with Hierarchical Reinforcement".
Dec 16, 2014
Engineering Nanoscopic Knots
MIE Associate Professor Moneesh Upmanyu and PhD student Alireza Shahabi were featured in Scientific Reports for their bioinspired strategy for engineering knots in nanoscale filaments.
Dec 16, 2014
Dean Aubry Named NAI Fellow
COE Dean and University Distinguished Professor Nadine Aubry has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors for her innovations in fluid mechanics.
Dec 15, 2014
Vaziri Featured in PLOS ONE
MIE Associate Professor Ashkan Vaziri’s was featured in PLOS ONE for his article on how “Type-IV Pilus Deformation Can Explain Retraction Behavior”
Oct 27, 2014
Improving Healthcare Access
MIE Professor James Benneyan was appointed to the Institute of Medicine’s new Optimizing Scheduling in Health Care Committee which will use systems engineering to improve healthcare access and scheduling across the country.
Oct 27, 2014
Preventing Antibiotic Resistance
IE PhD student Brendan Bettinger received a poster award for his game theory & epidemiology models to prevent the spread of antibiotic resistance at the NSF Center for Health Organization Transformation meeting.
Oct 24, 2014
First Year Engineering – Sumo Wrestling Robots
First Year Engineering students created and battled autonomous robots in Sue Freeman's class Friday Oct. 24, 2014.
Oct 16, 2014
Using Nonlinear Boundaries
MIE Assistant Professor Jaydeep Bardhan was featured in the Journal of Chemical Physics for his use of “Modeling charge-sign asymmetric solvation free energies with nonlinear boundary conditions”.