News

Jan 08, 2021
New Faculty Spotlight: Ruobing Bai
Ruobing Bai joins the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering department in January 2021 as an Assistant Professor.

Jan 08, 2021
New Faculty Spotlight: Xiaoyu Tang
Xiaoyu Tang joins the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering department in January 2021 as an Assistant Professor.

Jan 08, 2021
Building a COVID-19 Sanitizing Robot
Mechanical engineering student Daniel Simpson, E’25, built a robot that sanitizes workspaces from COVID-19 using UV light.

Jan 07, 2021
Behroozi Receives PTC Grant for Augmented Reality
MIE Assistant Professor Mehdi Behroozi was awarded $135K by PTC Inc for his project “Routing, Motion, and Space Optimization for Humans and Robots in an Augmented Reality Environment”.

Jan 07, 2021
NIST Award to Support Metal-Based Additive Manufacturing
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded $999,464 to the Cold Spray Research Group in MIE to improve sensing approaches and create a suite of sensor technologies that will help optimize cold spray additive manufacturing (CSAM). Cold spray AM processes have the potential to create parts that are more durable and stronger than those […]

Dec 16, 2020
A Better Alternative to One-Time Use Plastics
To reduce the need for one-time use plastics, MIE Assistant Professor Hongli “Julie” Zhu is using sugarcane and bamboo fibers to create biodegradable food containers.

Dec 14, 2020
Metghalchi Selected as Honorary Fellow of International Society for Energy, Environment and Sustainability
MIE Professor Hameed Metghalchi was selected as an Honorary Fellow of the International Society for Energy, Environment and Sustainability for the class of 2020, for pioneer research and education in thermodynamics and combustion for the last four decades improving thermal system efficiency and effectiveness while reducing pollutant formation.

Nov 25, 2020
Jaeger-Helton Received the Nicholas P. Tillinghast Award from Bridgewater State University
MIE Teaching Professor Beverly Jaeger-Helton received the Nicholas P. Tillinghast Award from Bridgewater State University, which is the highest honor bestowed upon an alumna by the University.