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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.”
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.”