News
Jul 11, 2014
From Stronger Kevlar to Better Biology
Assistant professor Marilyn Minus has received a grant to expand her nanomaterial templating process to design better synthetic collagen fibers and better flame-retardant coatings.
Jul 01, 2014
Jalili Appointed AE
MIE Associate Professor Nader Jalili has been appointed Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics.
Jun 27, 2014
Upmanyu Wins STIR Grant
MIE Associate Professor Moneesh Upmanyu's team won a $50K Short-Term Innovative Research (STIR) grant from the Army Research Office. This grant designs next-generation nanocrystalline metal alloys by engineering solute-interface interactions.
Jun 09, 2014
Erb and Minus Awarded EAGER Grant
MIE Assistant Professors Randall Erb & Marilyn Minus were awarded a $135K NSF EAGER grant to fabricate and disperse suspensions of colloidally-assembled hierarchical ceramic fillers for discontinuous fiber composite materials
May 20, 2014
Periodic Buckling Pattern
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering faculty members’s Jim Papadopoulos, Hamid Nayeb-Hashemi, Ashkan Vaziri, and PhD students Babak Haghpanah & Davood Mousanezhad were featured on the cover of Proceedings of Royal Society A for “Buckling of regular, chiral, and hierarchical honeycombs under a general macroscopic stress state”. Proceedings A has published many influential articles on Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences […]
May 19, 2014
Capstone Group Wins 3rd
After winning “Most Impactful Project” in the Northeastern University capstone program, College of Engineering seniors Robert Eley, Margaret McGuire, and Paige Burke travelled to Philadelphia for the regional ASME Student Professional Development Conference (SPDC). The group presented a poster on the project titled: Cancer Detection by Means of Mechanical Palpation. Their success continued as they were awarded third […]
May 09, 2014
Eminent Service to Education
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Professor John Cipolla was selected to receive the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Edwin F. Church Medal for eminent service in increasing the value, importance and attractiveness of mechanical engineering education. The $2500 award was established in 1973 by Edwin F. Church, Jr., who was a devoted member os ASME. Cipolla’s areas […]
May 07, 2014
Dirt & Crystalline Interfaces
Advised by MIE Associate Professor Moneesh Upmanyu, PhD student Changjian Wang published an article in the EPL (Europhysics Letters) journal entitled “Shear Accommodation in Dirty Grain Boundaries”. The paper is based on simulations to study the effects of dirt on crystalline interfaces. Wang is part of Moneesh's Group for Simulation and Theory of Atomic-Scale Material Phenomena (stAMP), which […]