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Aug 17, 2020
Murtadha Aldoukhi and Gupta Win IEOM First Place Paper Award
MIE PhD candidate Murtadha Aldoukhi and Professor Surendra M. Gupta’s paper titled “Flexible Model to Design Closed Loop Supply Chain Network Under Uncertainties” won the First Place Paper Award at the 5th North American International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management.
Aug 11, 2020
Using Augmented Reality to Train Workforce With New Methods
MIE Assistant Professor Mohsen Moghaddam (PI), Digital Learning Assistant Vice Chancellor Kemi Jona, Khoury Professor Stacy C. Marsella, Public Policy Associate Professor Alicia Sasser Modestino, and CATLTR Associate Director Nicholas C. Wilson, in collaboration with consultant Robert Roy, Massachusetts Manufacturing Extension Partnership, and Microsoft HoloLens Group, were awarded a $150K NSF grant for “Training an Agile, Adaptive Workforce for the Future of Manufacturing with Intelligent Augmented Reality”.
Jul 29, 2020
Hackathon Winners Build App for Students with Limited Internet Access
College of Engineering Information Systems and Engineering Management students win COVID-19 Virtual Hackathon, in which they developed a mobile application to allow students in India to still learn skills even with limited access to the internet.
Jul 29, 2020
Improving Medical Staffing in Long Term Care During Pandemic
MIE Professor Ozlem Ergun was awarded a $101K NSF RAPID grant for “Collecting Supply, Demand, and Matching Data for Assigning Medical Staff to Long Term Care Facilities During the COVID-19 Pandemic”.
Jul 28, 2020
Researching How Gravity Impacts Gel Materials Including Tests in Space
MIE Assistant Professor Safa Jamali is leading a $500K NSF grant, in collaboration with Ali Mohraz from University of California, Irvine, for studying “Bimodal Colloidal Assembly, Coarsening and Failure: Decoupling Sedimentation and Particle Size Effects”.
Jul 23, 2020
Developing Devices to Keep Employees Physically Distant
Data Analytics Engineering student Jignesh Jadhav, MS’20, and Computer Systems Engineering student Yiqiang Wang, MS’20, while working on co-op at Iterate Labs, developed wearable devices to help judge physical distance and alerts the wearer if someone gets to close.
Jul 09, 2020
Using Magnetic Fields to Reinforce 3D Printing
MIE Associate Professor Randall Erb was awarded a patent for “Additive manufacturing of discontinuous fiber composites using magnetic fields.”
Jul 09, 2020
Increasing Target Sensitivity with Coded Compressive Antenna
MIE/ECE Associate Professor Jose Martinez Lorenzo was awarded a patent for creating a “Compressive coded antenna/meta-antenna”.