News

Aug 19, 2021
MIE’s Moghaddam Awarded $2M for Intelligent Extended Reality Research
MIE Assistant Professor Mohsen Moghaddam was awarded a $2M NSF grant for “Fostering Learning and Adaptability of Future Manufacturing Workers with Intelligent Extended Reality (IXR).”

Aug 18, 2021
New Faculty Spotlight: Ozan Ozdemir
Ozan Özdemir joins the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering department in August 2021 as an Assistant Professor.

Aug 12, 2021
Understanding of the Physics of Dense Suspensions
MIE Assistant Professor Safa Jamali, in collaboration with Lilian Hsiao from North Carolina State University, received a $794K NSF grant for “Visualizing statistical force networks in colloidal materials far-from-equilibrium.”

Aug 05, 2021
Manufacturing Efficient Magnetic Materials
Distinguished University and Cabot Professor Laura Lewis, ChE/MIE, in collaboration with the University of Warwick, UK, was awarded a $900K NSF grant for “Multi-Driver Furnace Processing of Magneto-Functional Materials.”

Aug 04, 2021
Gupta Gives Plenary Keynote at the 10th International Conference on Mechanics and Industrial Engineering (ICMIE’21)
MIE Professor Surendra M. Gupta delivered a plenary keynote speech on August 4, 2021 at the 10th International Conference on Mechanics and Industrial Engineering (ICMIE’21).

Aug 03, 2021
Determining the Lengths of a Collection of Carbon Nanotubes
MIE Professor Mohammad Taslim was awarded a patent for “Length-based carbon nanotube ladders.”

Jul 30, 2021
$1.8M NSF Grant for Designing and Controlling Geopolymers Structures
MIE Assistant Professor Safa Jamali is leading a $1.8 million NSF DMREF (Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future) grant, in collaboration with Norman Wagner from the University of Delaware, Emanuela Del Gado from Georgetown University, and the Air Force Research Laboratory, to create “Rheostructurally-Informed Neural Networks for Geopolymer Material Design.”

Jul 28, 2021
Advancing Remote Robotic Technology
MIE Assistant Professor Peter Whitney has been working to design lightweight nimble robotic arms that could be capable of remote surgery or other situations where safety might be a factor. […]