News
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.
Sep 21, 2010
Vaziri Awarded $75K EAGER Grant
MIE Assistant Professor Ashkan Vaziri has received a $75K NSF EAGER grant to use shell mechanics concepts to study the nonlinear behavior of a number of inorganic and biological systems.
Sep 20, 2010
CHOT featured in US News & World Report
James C. Benneyan, program director of the Center for Health Organization Transformation & Professor of MIE, was featured in latest issue of US News & World Report.
Sep 10, 2010
Breaking Ground for the George J. Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security
September 10, 2010 was the historic groundbreaking for the George J. Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security which will facilitate university researchers’ work in such fields as cryptography, data security, information assurance, robust infrastructure, and energy harvesting.