News
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.
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".
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.