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Aug 28, 2025
Advancing Offshore Wind Careers Through Innovative Learning
CEE Assistant Professor Gilbert Ye, MIE Professor and Chair Yingzi Lin, CEE Professor Andrew Myers, in collaboration with the University of Alabama, were awarded a $1,000,000 NSF grant for “Engaging and Preparing the Offshore Wind Workforce through Hybrid Experiential Learning.”
Aug 28, 2025
Professor and Students Journey to Panama Canal to Study Fluid Mechanics
MIE Associate Professor Carlos Hidrovo and eleven mechanical engineering students ventured on a month-long Dialogue of Civilizations trip to the Panama Canal to study fluid mechanics.
Aug 28, 2025
New AI-Aided Design Framework Creates Auxetic Meta-Laminae
MIE Associate Professor Yaning Li, her former postdoc Shujing Dong (now a professor at Shanghai Polytechnic University), and recent graduate Ammar Batwa, PhD’25, (now a professor at King Abdulaziz University), published their research on “Tuning Local Anisotropy for Macroscopic Auxeticity: Design Auxetic Meta-Lamina via Systematic Finite Element Simulations and Machine Learning Approach” in Materials & Design.
Aug 27, 2025
Award-Winning Paper Shows How to Help Students Achieve Learning Goals
MIE Associate Teaching Professor Marguerite Matherne received the Best Presentation Award for her paper “Effectiveness of Just-In-Time Teaching on Helping Students Achieve Lower Order Learning Goals in a Mechanics of Materials Class,” which was presented at the 2024 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference.
Aug 22, 2025
Developing Intelligent Garments for Real-Time Healthcare
ECE Associate Professor Kris Dorsey and Khoury/MIE Assistant Professor Megan Hofmann, in collaboration with Emory University, were awarded a $699,789 NSF grant for “Adaptive Intelligent Healthcare Garment: Advancing Real-Time Monitoring and Behavioral Interventions.”
Aug 19, 2025
New Faculty Spotlight: Nivii Kalavakonda Chandrasekar
Nivii Kalavakonda Chandrasekar joins the mechanical and industrial engineering department in August 2025 as an assistant teaching professor in Seattle, WA.
Aug 19, 2025
New Faculty Spotlight: Ruidong Ma
Ruidong Ma joins the mechanical and industrial engineering department in August 2025 as an assistant teaching professor in Seattle, WA.
Aug 07, 2025
Effectively Integrating Artificial Intelligence Into High School Classrooms
Ibrahim Zeid, professor of mechanical and industrial engineering, Claire Duggan, executive director of the Michael B. Silevitch and Claire J. Duggan Center for STEM Education, and Associate Teaching Professor Jennifer Love led a week-long professional development program for twelve local high school STEM teachers, funded by a three-year $400,000 NSF grant titled “Modernizing Education: Using AI to Improve Students’ Learning and Build Skills for the Future.”