News
Jul 26, 2018
Busnaina and Somu Awarded Patent
MIE Professor Ahmed Busnaina & Director of the Kostas Nanoscale Research Center Siva Somu were awarded a patent for “Single-walled carbon nanotube biosensor for detection of glucose, lactate, and urea”.
Jul 19, 2018
Heydari Receives Systems Engineering Journal Outstanding Paper Award
Babak Heydari, who will be joining the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering department as an associate professor this fall, was awarded the Systems Engineering Journal Outstanding Paper Award for his paper on “Distributed Resource Management in Systems of Systems: An Architecture Perspective”.
Jul 19, 2018
Energy Systems Alumni Suchart Klaikaew Panelist at 2018 Sensors Expo
Suchart Klaikaew, a 2018 gradaute of the MS Energy Systems program and PhD candidate in the MIE department, joined the “Future of Engineering Education” panel session with Roger Grace, or Roger Grace Associates, at the 2018 Sensors Expo at the San Jose Convention Center on June 26-28.
Jul 18, 2018
Undergraduate Engineering Students’ work published at the ASEE2018 National Conference
Two undergraduate engineering student papers, written under the supervision of FYELIC Teaching Professor Bala Maheswaran, were published and presented at the American Society of Engineering Education National Conference, on June 24-27, 2018 at Salt Lake City, Utah.
Jul 17, 2018
Understanding High Strain-Rate Characteristics of Multiphase Polymers
MIE Professor Sinan Muftu, in collaboration with Jae-Hwang Lee of UMass Amherst, was awarded a $500K NSF grant for determining the “High-Strain-Rate Dynamics of Copolymer Microparticles for Advanced Additive Manufacturing”.
Jul 17, 2018
Prof. Laura H. Lewis Selected for the 2018 Mechanical Engineering Academy of Distinguished Alumni Honorees at UT – Austin
The University of Texas at Austin has selected ChE/MIE Professor Laura Lewis as one of the “2018 Mechanical Engineering Academy of Distinguished Alumni Honorees”.
Jul 11, 2018
Using an Elastic Surface for Reprogrammable Braille
MIE Professor Ashkan Vaziri’s research on “Reprogrammable Braille on an Elastic Shell” was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS).
Jul 11, 2018
Best Paper Finalists at ASEE Annual Conference
MIE Teaching Professor Beverly Jaeger-Helton and Associate Teaching Professor Bridget Smyser were selected as Best Paper Finalists for their paper “The Write Background Makes a Difference: What Research and Writing Skills can Predict About Project Success” in the Design in Engineering Education Division at the 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition.