News
Oct 07, 2011
Busnaina, Adams & McGruer Receive Patent
MIE Professors Ahmed Busnaina & George Adams, and ECE Professor Nicol McGruer have been awarded a patent for their “Bistable nanoswitch”.
Sep 29, 2011
Correcting Healthcare
MIE Professor Vinod Sahney uses systems engineering principles to redesign the healthcare system to improve treatment, patient safety and quality of care.
Sep 28, 2011
Mavroidis Receives 2 Patents
MIE Professor Constantinos Mavroidis was awarded 2 patents this month for "Instrumented handle and pedal systems for use in rehabilitation, exercise and training equipment" AND "Gear Bearing Drive".
Sep 22, 2011
Leading the University’s Security Initiative
Dean David Luzzi has been appointed the executive director of the University’s Strategic Security Initiative and will help further develop the university’s security agenda.
Sep 08, 2011
Improving Penmanship
MIE Assistant Professors Rifat Sipahi & Andrew Gouldstone and Senior Academic Specialist Beverly Jaeger received a $270K NSF grant to create a “Smart Pen” to assist people with fine motor control disorders.
Aug 10, 2011
Upmanyu Awarded $320K Grant
MIE Associate Professor, Moneesh Upmanyu received a $320K NSF grant to use computational analysis to study the formation of nanocrystals in semiconducting nanowires.
Aug 02, 2011
Strength of Particle Bonds
MIE Assistant Professor Andrew Gouldstone and Professors Teiicho Ando & Sinan Muftu were awarded a $400K NSF grant to determine how the bonding of particles is affected by ultrasonic vibrations.
Jul 25, 2011
Sipahi Awarded DARPA Grant
MIE Assistant Professor Rifat Sipahi received a $300K DARPA grant for his research “Model-Free Algorithms to Assist and Control Human-Task Missions against Dynamic Environments.”