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Aug 17, 2010

Gouldstone and Jaeger Awarded $293K Grant

MIE Professor Andrew Gouldstone and Associate Academic Specialist Beverly Jaeger received a $293K NSF Grant to explore activities in Thermal Spray Processing and Volcanology.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Jul 26, 2010

COE Alum Receives Prestigious Fellowship

Moira McSpadden, a ME ‘97 graduate in Information Systems, was selected to receive a Woodrow Wilson Indiana Teaching Fellowship – considered the "Rhodes Scholarship" for teaching.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Jul 21, 2010

Commercializing Nanotechnology

The Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing (CHN) has received a 5-yr $2M grant from the John Adams Innovation Institute to help commercialize their nanomanufacuring technologies for consumers.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Jul 15, 2010

Double Congratulations

Ismail Ilker Delice, a Mechanical Engineering PhD student, received the Best Presentation in Session Award at the recent American Control Conference as well as a $5K Ferretti Fellowship from the MIE Department for his outstanding academic standing.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Jul 14, 2010

Creating a First Alert Helmet

Under the direction of Associate Professor Sinan Muftu, a team of MIE capstone students, developed a helmet that could measure the severity of head injuries after a fall and alert first responders to the significance of the damage.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Jul 06, 2010

Hashemi & Vaziri Receive $300K

MIE Professor Hamid Nayeb-Hashemi & Assistant Professor Ashkan Vaziri have received a multi-national grant from QNRF for their "Novel approaches for structural protection in the oil, gas, and petrechemical industry".

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Jun 30, 2010

Creating a Sticky Situation

MIE Assistant Professor Ashkan Vaziri is trying to replicate the adhesion properties of a gecko’s footpad for use in controlling small high-tech microrobots or smart adhesives.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Jun 28, 2010

Congratulations

Beverly Jaeger, Susan Freeman, Rich Whalen, & Rebecca Payne won Best Paper for PIC III as well as Best Paper Overall at the 2010 ASEE Annual Conference for their paper “Successful Students: Smart or Tough?”. Both awards will be announced in the November issue of Prism.

Civil & Environmental Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering