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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 […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

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 […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

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 […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

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 […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

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 […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

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 […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

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 […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

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 […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering