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Nov 26, 2019
MIE PhD Student Wins IMECE Best Paper Award
Mechanical PhD student Chang Liu was awarded first place in the ASME Noise Control and Acoustics Division student paper competition for the paper “Preliminary Results of Microwave – Induced Thermoacoustics Imaging in Geological Media” which was presented at the 2019 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition.

Nov 20, 2019
Martinez-Lorenzo Awarded Patent to Detect Security Threats
MIE/ECE Assistant Professor Jose Martinez-Lorenzo awarded a patent for creating an “Ultrasonic-based system for detection of metallic security threats containers on cargo”.

Nov 15, 2019
Zhu Featured on Cover of Advanced Materials
MIE Assistant Professor Hongli Zhu lab’s research on “Solid‐State Batteries: Sulfide‐Based Solid‐State Electrolytes: Synthesis, Stability, and Potential for All‐Solid‐State Batteries” is featured on the inside front cover of Advanced Materials.

Nov 15, 2019
Zhu Featured on Cover of Advanced Functional Materials
MIE Assistant Professor Hongli Zhu lab’s research on “Aqueous Flow Batteries: Mass Transfer and Reaction Kinetic Enhanced Electrode for High‐Performance Aqueous Flow Batteries” featured on the inside front cover of Advanced Functional Materials.

Nov 15, 2019
Zhu Awarded NSF EAGER Grant in Collaboration with Penn State University
MIE Assistant Professor Hongli Zhu awarded an NSF Eager grant to work on “fully water-soluble bioelectronics with skin-conforming galactomannan” in collaboration with Penn State University.

Nov 15, 2019
Rogers Corporation Grant to Explore Hybrid Solid State Electrolyte
MIE Assistant Professor Hongli Zhu awarded $180K from the Rogers Corporation for “Advanced Electrolytes to Enable High Energy High Power Li-ion Batteries”.
Nov 13, 2019
Graduate Students Awarded Fellowships
Congratulations to the College of Engineering PhD students who were awarded the Alsaif Fellowship and Dissertation Completion Fellowships.

Nov 12, 2019
Noor-E-Alam’s Collaborative Work Won 1st Place at APPAM
MIE Assistant Professor Md. Noor-E-Alam’s collaborative work “A Community Health Center Buyback Program to Reduce the Supply of Opioids to Secondary Users” with CSSH Associate Professor Alicia Modestino and D’Amore-McKim Professor Gary Young won 1st place for poster presentation at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Fall Research Conference.