News
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 […]
Jan 23, 2014
Snow falls differently on the nanoscale
This time of year it’s not hard to imagine the world buried under a smooth blanket of snow. A picnic table on a flat lawn eventually vanishes as trillions of […]
Jan 22, 2014
Huang Selected as Fellow
MIE Chair & Professor Hanchen Huang was selected to become a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) for his contributions to nanomechanics and nanofabrication. Dr. Huang's affiliations also […]