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Jun 02, 2021
Kelsey Pieper Named Gulf Research Program Inaugural Early-Career Research Fellow for New Human Health and Community Resilience Track
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Gulf Research Program named CEE Assistant Professor Kelsey Pieper an inaugural member of their new Early-Career Research For New Human Health and Community Resilience track Fellowship.
Jun 01, 2021
The CoCoPIE Framework from Yanzhi Wang’s Group Featured in Communications of the ACM
The CoCoPIE framework from ECE Assistant Professor Yanzhi Wang’s group is reported in the featured article “CoCoPIE: Enabling Real-Time AI on Off-the-Shelf Mobile Devices via Compression-Compilation Co-Design” in Communications of the ACM.
Jun 01, 2021
ECE Research Paper Nominated for DATE Best Paper Award
Computer engineering PhD student Geng Yuan, PhD’23, and ECE Assistant Professor Yanzhi Wang’s research paper on “TinyADC: Peripheral Circuit-aware Weight Pruning Framework for Mixed-signal DNN Accelerators” was nominated for the Best Paper Award at Design Automation and Test Conference in Europe (DATE).
May 27, 2021
Resilience Leads to Co-op at Tesla
When the co-op of Jared Covell, E’22, mechanical engineering, was canceled by the pandemic, he ended up working as a design engineer at a dream company for mechanical engineering, Tesla, with the support, mentoring and network of connections of his co-op coordinator. As a project lead on Tesla’s Drive Systems Structures team, Covell modeled components for a dynamometer assembly used to test a new electric motor. He led design reviews among the company’s structures, lubrication, and motor teams — then applied their feedback to optimize his models in the next iteration.
May 27, 2021
Alam Receives NSF CAREER Award for Causal Inference in Large-Scale Studies
MIE Assistant Professor Md. Noor E Alam received a $500K NSF CAREER Award for developing “Robust Matching Algorithms for Causal Inference in Large Observational Studies.”
May 24, 2021
New Faculty Spotlight: Raimond Winslow
Raimond Winslow joins the Bioengineering department in May 2021 as a Professor and Director of Life Science and Medicine Research at the Roux Institute.
May 20, 2021
Using Magnetic Fields to Align 3D Printed Composite Materials
MIE Associate Professor Randall Erb was awarded a patent for creating a method for “Direct write three-dimensional printing of aligned composite materials”.
May 20, 2021
Helping to Make Student Dreams a Reality
In addition to helping students in the mechanical and industrial engineering capstone lab, Professor Andrew Gouldstone advises five engineering student groups to help bring their technical visions to reality.