News

Aug 29, 2019
New Faculty Spotlight: Yaning Li
Yaning Li joins the Mechanical & Industrial Engineering department in August 2019 as an Associate Professor.

Aug 29, 2019
New Faculty Spotlight: Yi Zheng
Yi Zheng joins the Mechanical & Industrial Engineering department in August 2019 as an Associate Professor.

Aug 27, 2019
Maass Awarded NSF Grant to Study Resource Allocation to Disrupt Human Trafficking Networks
MIE Assistant Professor Kayse Lee Maass is a co-principal investigator on a $535K NSF grant, titled, “ISN2: Disrupting Human Trafficking via Needs Matching and Capacity Expansion.”

Aug 26, 2019
Maass Receives NSF Award to Address Labor Trafficking in the Agricultural Sector
MIE Assistant Professor Kayse Maass (PI), Shawn Bhimani (co-PI), Visiting Assistant Professor in D’Amore-McKim School of Business’s Supply Chain and Information Management Group, and Amy Farrell (co-PI), associate professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice and co-director of the Violence and Justice Research Lab, received a $574K grant from the NSF for “ISN2: Coordinated Interdiction for Disruption of Labor Trafficking in the Agricultural Sector.”

Aug 05, 2019
Students Learn Materials Science in Mayan Mesoamerica
First Year Engineering Associate Teaching Professor Joshua Hertz led a group of students on a new Dialogue of Civilizations trip to Belize, where they explored how ancient civilizations produced materials.

Jul 24, 2019
Paradigm Hyperloop Competes at SpaceX Hyperloop Competition
Congratulations to the Paradigm Hyperloop team who competed in the 2019 SpaceX Hyperloop Competition this past weekend in California and placed 8th in the world and 3rd in North America.

Jul 18, 2019
Developing Better Airport Sensors
ECE Professor Carey Rappaport and MIE/ECE Associate Professor Jose Martinez-Lorenzo are developing sensors that could replace current airport scanners to quickly scan passengers as they walk down a hallway.

Jul 18, 2019
NSF Award to Improve Domestic Energy Security with Solid-State Batteries
MIE Assistant Professor Hongli Zhu and ChE Assistant Professor Joshua Gallaway were awarded a $480K NSF grant for “Engineering the Metal Sulfide Interface in All Solid-State Batteries through Operando Study”.