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May 22, 2013
Drive it to break it
Recent mechanical engineering graduate Andy Benn isn’t used to having time on his hands. Spending an afternoon playing tennis and eating lobster rolls, is well, unprecedented for the former Baja team captain who said he was clocking 80 to 100 hours a week in the auto shop in the basement of Richards Hall before graduating earlier this month. In case […]
May 07, 2013
Breaking Healthcare Barriers
Working with Indiana University, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Assistant Professor Ayten Turkcan Upasani was awarded $159K by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to develop an efficient system to make sure underinsured people get the healthcare they need. The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) is authorized by Congress to fund and disseminate research that will provide information […]
May 02, 2013
Family’s health scare helps student find calling
When he was just 7 years old, graduating senior Kendall Sanderson’s mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. The tumor needed to be removed with emergency surgery, according to her son, but complications in the hospital’s scheduling protocol forced a three-week delay in the procedure. To the industrial engineering major, one of the most fascinating problems to solve […]
Apr 30, 2013
Congratulations COE Award Winners
Congratulations to the recipients of this year's College of Engineering Faculty and Staff awards. Outstanding Teachers of First Year Engineering Students: Thomas Gilbert, Chemistry; Susan Freeman, Engineering; John Lindhe, Mathematics; Bala Maheswaran, Physics Martin W. Essigmann Outstanding Teaching Award: Nader Jalili, MIE; Carolyn Lee-Parsons, ChE Outstanding Cooperative Education Coordinator Award: George Kent, ECE Outstanding Staff Award: Tracy Bourassa, ARC; Faith […]
Apr 24, 2013
Brassitos Wins NASA Fellowship
Mechanics MS student Elias Brassitos is the recipient of a prestigious NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship (NSTRF) to contribute innovative new space technologies for our Nation’s science, exploration and economic future. The goal of NSTRF is to provide the Nation with a pipeline of highly skilled researchers and technologists to improve America's technological competitiveness. NASA […]
Apr 23, 2013
Increasing IVF Success
Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor Charles DiMarzio was awarded a patent for his “Phase subtraction cell counting method” to accurately count the cells in an embryo to increase the probability of a healthy transfer during fertility treatments. Dr. DiMarzio the author of Optics for Engineers and currently leads OSL, the Optical Science Laboratory, which is affiliated […]
Apr 18, 2013
Self-Shaping Composites
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Assistant Professor Randall Erb’s research was featured in Nature Communications, for his efforts in replicating naturally occurring shape-changing materials with synthetic hydrogel composites. Nature Communications is a multidisciplinary journal that publishes high-quality research from all areas of the natural sciences and has an Impact Factor of 10.015 according to the 2012 Journal Citation Reports® Science […]
Apr 17, 2013
Ankle rehab, re-engineered
Ten months ago, Paul Douçot began contemplating his transition from undergraduate mechanical engineering studies to a graduate program in physical therapy. “I didn’t want to abandon my engineering background,” he said. It turned out he wouldn’t have to. Douçot connected with a variety of physical therapists in the field and learned that one sorely lacking piece of […]