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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 […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

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 […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

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 […]

Civil & Environmental Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

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 […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

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 […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

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 […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Aug 04, 2013

Don’t delay: Early engineering intro pays off

When Mohit Bhardwaj was a freshman in high school he trav­eled from his home in Lusaka, Zambia to Boston. with Lead America. For nine days, he and a group of […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Jul 30, 2013

Origami unfolds a new tissue engineering strategy

Origami, the Japanese art of paper folding, has been around for more than a mil­len­nium, but asso­ciate pro­fessor of mechan­ical and indus­trial engi­neering Carol Liv­er­more is now using it to create solu­tions […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering