News
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.
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.
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.
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.
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".
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.
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.
Jun 09, 2010
Upmanyu Receives ONR Grant
MIE Associate Professor, Moneesh Upmanyu received an $93K grant from the Office of Naval Research for his research “Particle Strengthening of Alloyed Interfaced”