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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 […]
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 […]
Aug 26, 2013
Mimicking Bone Structures
MIE Associate Professor Jeff Ruberti was awarded a $300K National Science Foundation grant to study the complexities of bone material to help synthesis future composite materials. The NSF funds research […]
Aug 22, 2013
Lin Awarded $235K NSF Grant
MIE Associate Professor Yingzi Lin was awarded a $235K National Science Foundation grant to determine how to integrate human factors such as emotion, mental workload and attention into a Driver […]
Aug 20, 2013
21st Century Drinking Water
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering associate professor Kai-tak Wan, professor Sinan Muftu, & Civil and Environmental Engineering assistant professor April Gu were awarded a $400K National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to find […]
Aug 16, 2013
Living out Childhood Dream
Congratulations to Mechanical Engineering student Craig Schmidt, Jr. who was one of 20 students across the country to win a 2013-15 NASA Aeronautics and Space Program Scholarship and Internship. NASA […]
Aug 12, 2013
Mars Rover, One Year Later
Megan Richardson, a Mechanical Engineering student (class of 2010), connected with the NASA JPL at a SWE National conference, obtained a co-op, and joined them after graduation to work on the […]
Aug 09, 2013
Laser of the Future
ECE & MIE Assistant Professor Yongmin Liu has created the world’s first plasmofluidic lens which can manipulate light at much smaller scales using a tiny laser beam just a few […]