News
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.”
Aug 06, 2025
Report on Titan Submersible Implosion Released
ECE/MIE Professor Hanumant Singh discusses the report issued by the U.S. Coast Guard about the implosion of OceanGate’s submersible “Titan” in 2023.
Jul 31, 2025
Data Analytics Student Wins Agentic AI Hackathon
Aminu Yiwere, MS’26, data analytics engineering, won first place in a recent Agentic AI Hackathon hosted by the Vancouver campus.
Jul 28, 2025
Understanding Bone Change From Evolution To Everyday Movement
MIE/BioE Professor Sandra Shefelbine, in collaboration with Brown University, was awarded a $625,000 NSF grant for “Bones and Burrowing: Mechanoadaptation in phylogeny, ontogeny and ecology of Peromyscus.”
Jul 24, 2025
Advancing Health Research While Safeguarding Genetic Privacy
MIE Assistant Professor Xubo Yue, in collaboration with Brown University, has received a $1M NSF grant for the project titled “SCH: Protecting Privacy and Promoting Fairness in Advanced Genomic Research using Federated Learning.” This project represents a significant step forward in advancing federated learning for large-scale, privacy-preserving analysis of biological data across multiple institutions – enabling collaboration without the need for data sharing.
Jul 23, 2025
Akcay and Martagan received 2025 EURO Award
MIE Associate Professors Alp Akcay and Tugce Martagan were awarded the 2025 EURO Award for the Best EJOR Paper. This award recognizes the most outstanding paper published in the European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR), one of the leading journals in the field of operations research and decision sciences.
Jul 23, 2025
Seba’s Short-Tailed Bat Displays Distinctive Wing-Bone Morphological and Material Properties
Bioengineering alumni Xiaoxiang Ma, MS’23, and MIE/BioE Professor Sandra Shefelbine, published their research on “A proximodistal gradient in bone structure and mechanics in the wings of Seba’s short-tailed bat, Carollia perspicillata” in The Anatomical Record.