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Jan 13, 2011

Attempting to Prevent Arthritis

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Professor Hamid Nayeb-Hashemi & Assistant Professor Ashkan Vaziri are using 3D imaging models of knee joints to develop methods to treat and prevent osteoarthritis.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Dec 06, 2010

Students Awarded Patent for Capstone Project

MIE Graduates Bruce Eidinger, Kendra Mcgrath, Joshua Rigberg, Peter Callaway, and Mark Macomber have been awarded a patent for their 2005 capstone project entitled "Hydrocephalus shunt system quick connector assembly".

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Nov 18, 2010

Nayeb-Hashemi & Vaziri on Cover of Orthopaedic Research

MIE Professor Hamid Nayeb-Hashemi & Assistant Professor Ashkan Vaziri’s article on “Effect of frontal plane tibiofemoral angle on the stress and strain at the knee cartilage during the stance phase of gait” is featured on the cover of the Journal of Orthopaedic Research.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Nov 03, 2010

Vaziri on Cover of Soft Matter Journal

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Assistant Professor Ashkan Vaziri’s article on "High Aspect Ratio Wrinkles on a Soft Polymer" is featured on the cover of the latest issue of Soft Matter.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Oct 20, 2010

COE Alum wins Young Investigator Award

Tuba Okutucu, a PhD‘05 graduate in Mechanical Engineering, won the Young Investigator Award from the Turkish Scientific Foundation for her research on MEMS Production of Microchannel Heat Sinks with Nanofluids as the Working Fluid and their Application in Microchip Cooling.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Oct 04, 2010

Students win Touch of Genius Prize for Innovation

Under the advisement of Associate Professor Gregory Kowalski, a team of MIE capstone students, has won the Touch of Genius Prize for Innovation from the National Braille Press for designing an inexpensive Braille embosser.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Sep 30, 2010

Creating Artificial Corneas

MIE Associate Professor Jeff Ruberti has been awarded a $380K grant from the National Eye Institute for his work in engineering biomimetic corneal constructs.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Sep 22, 2010

Joining at the Microscale

MIE Professor Teiichi Ando has been awarded a $137K NSF grant to join materials together at the microscale using nanoheater structures leading to new ways to build microscale devices.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering