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Aug 02, 2018
Vaziri & Nayeb-Hashemi Win TAML 2018 Excellent Paper Award
MIE Professors Ashkan Vaziri and Hamid Nayeb-Hashemi won the Theoretical & Applied Mechanics Letters (TAML) 2018 Excellent Paper Award for their paper “Elastic properties of chiral, anti-chiral, and hierarchical honeycombs: A simple energy-based approach”.
Aug 02, 2018
Designing Metamaterials with Origami Shapes
Mechanical engineering PhD student Soroush Kamrava is researching ways to incorporate origami ideas with metamaterials to create objects that can collapse, absorb energy, and then spring back into place.
Aug 01, 2018
Jung and Kar Awarded Patent for Ultrasensitive Ion Detector
MIE Professor Yung Joon Jung and affiliated Physics Associate Professor Swastik Kar were awarded a patent for “Ultrasensitive ion detector using carbon nanotubes or graphene”.
Jul 26, 2018
Developing Alternatives to Rare Earth Materials
ChE/MIE Professor Laura Lewis and ECE Professor Vincent Harris are working on alternatives to rare-earth metals which are used from everything from smartphones to guided missiles to reduce our reliance on China.
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.