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Oct 30, 2013

Upmanyu Featured on Cover

Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Associate Professor Moneesh Upmanyu was featured on the cover of the Journal of Materials Chemistry C for his research of "Vapor-liquid-solid growth of serrated GaN nanowires: shape selection […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Oct 11, 2013

How to develop cutting-​​edge technologies faster

When DuPont intro­duced Nylon in the 1940s, its cre­ators had no idea that the mate­rial would be a crit­ical com­po­nent in today’s auto­mo­bile engines. It took just as long for […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Oct 01, 2013

Dynamic Motions of Lead

Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Associate Professors Moneesh Upmanyu and Yung Joon Jung were featured in Scientific Reports for their research in "Liquid metal nanodroplet dynamics inside nanocontainers."  Scientific Reports is a […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Sep 27, 2013

Little blade, big role

When­ever I fly, I almost always get seated near the engine. In the past this has made me  grumpy. Not only are those big cylin­ders ridicu­lously loud, they also obstruct […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Sep 16, 2013

Ethics and Engineering

Civil and Environmental Engineering Assistant Professor Matthew Eckelman and Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Professor Jackie Isaacs were awarded a $248K National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to incorporate ethics education into life cycle design, engineering, […]

Civil & Environmental Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Sep 16, 2013

‘All models are wrong, some are useful’

There are good models and there are bad models. For example, how many times have you pur­chased what amounted to be a garbage sack because it looked so much like a […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Sep 13, 2013

Mavroidis Wins 3 Grants

Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Professor Constantinos Mavroidis was awarded two NSF grants and one NASA grant totaling $750K to study Gear Bearing Drives for robotic joints and MRI Guided Magnetic NanoParticles. The National Science […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Sep 06, 2013

Monitoring at the Next Level

Mechanical and Industrial Engineering and Electrical & Computer Engineering Assistant Professor Jose A. Martinez-Lorenzo received a $225K subcontract from MIT-Lincoln Laboratory for a NOAA grant to create "Advanced Mechanical-Electromagnetic Applications for next Generation Environmental […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering