News

Jan 08, 2021
New Faculty Spotlight: Xiaoyu Tang
Xiaoyu Tang joins the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering department in January 2021 as an Assistant Professor.

Jan 08, 2021
Building a COVID-19 Sanitizing Robot
Mechanical engineering student Daniel Simpson, E’25, built a robot that sanitizes workspaces from COVID-19 using UV light.

Jan 08, 2021
Bajpayee Nominated as Biomaterials Science Emerging Investigator
BioE Assistant Professor Ambika Bajpayee was nominated as Biomaterials Science Emerging Investigator 2021 for her paper “Milk exosomes with enhanced mucus penetrability for oral delivery of siRNA.”

Jan 08, 2021
Wang Receives Multiple Funding and Gift Awards from Industry
ECE Assistant Professor Yanzhi Wang received multiple funding and gift awards from industry, including DiDi USA, Kwai USA, Snap Inc., Perception Inc., and Tencent USA.

Jan 07, 2021
Bencherif Named 2021 BMES CMBE Rising Star
Chemical Engineering Assistant Professor Sidi A. Bencherif has been named one of the 2021 Rising Stars by the Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering (CMBE) Special Interest Group (SIG) within the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES).

Jan 07, 2021
Behroozi Receives PTC Grant for Augmented Reality
MIE Assistant Professor Mehdi Behroozi was awarded $135K by PTC Inc for his project “Routing, Motion, and Space Optimization for Humans and Robots in an Augmented Reality Environment”.

Jan 07, 2021
NIST Award to Support Metal-Based Additive Manufacturing
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded $999,464 to the Cold Spray Research Group in MIE to improve sensing approaches and create a suite of sensor technologies that will help optimize cold spray additive manufacturing (CSAM). Cold spray AM processes have the potential to create parts that are more durable and stronger than those […]

Jan 07, 2021
Niedre and Amiji Receive National Cancer Institute Award
Bioengineering Professor and Associate Chair Mark Niedre and Bouve/ChE Distinguished Professor Mansoor Amiji received a 2-year, $400K grant titled “Fluorescence Molecular In Vivo Liquid Biopsy of Circulating Tumor Cells” from the National Cancer Institute and National Institutes of Health.