News
Mar 20, 2014
Pursuing Vertical Flight
Congratulations to mechanical engineering student Craig Schmidt, Jr. who was awarded the 2014-15 Richard M. Carlson scholarship from the Vertical Flight Foundation. The Vertical Flight Foundation was founded in 1967 […]
Mar 20, 2014
Congratulations to recipients of the FY15 TIER 1 Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grants
19 COE faculty were recipients of FY15 TIER 1 Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grants for 11 different projects representing over $500K dollars of investment in research.
Mar 20, 2014
Muftu Appointed ASME Associate Editor
Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Professor Sinan Muftu has been appointed the Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Tribology. The journal features articles by tribologists from all over the world […]
Mar 12, 2014
Carol Livermore integrates origami into tissue engineering
Carol Livermore, Associate Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Engineering tissue to create livers and other human organs for transplant is a fast-growing field in biotechnology. To overcome one of […]
Mar 05, 2014
Nano-scale Templating
MIE Assistant Professor Marilyn Minus was awarded a $400K NSF CAREER grant to develop a new manufacturing process to control polymer molecular alignment in nano-composite materials. Dr. Minus' research focuses […]
Feb 19, 2014
Want your computer to go faster? Just add light
Every second, your computer must process billions of computational steps to produce even the simplest outputs. Imagine if every one of those steps could be made just a tiny bit […]
Jan 31, 2014
Nanowire into Nanocircuit
Sivasubramanian Somu (MIE), Ahmed Busnaina (MIE), Nicol McGruer (ECE), & George Adams (MIE) were awarded a patent for their method of integrating a single nanowire into a nanocircuit. The nano-electromechanical […]
Jan 27, 2014
Students Win Paper Competition
Healthcare Systems Engineering Institute (HSyE) IE students Serpil Mutlu (PhD) and Rachel Miller (MS) won the 2014 Institute of Industrial Engineers graduate student healthcare paper competition for their paper "Optimizing […]