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Aug 17, 2020
Murtadha Aldoukhi and Gupta Win IEOM First Place Paper Award
MIE PhD candidate Murtadha Aldoukhi and Professor Surendra M. Gupta’s paper titled “Flexible Model to Design Closed Loop Supply Chain Network Under Uncertainties” won the First Place Paper Award at the 5th North American International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management.
Aug 14, 2020
Supporting Her Homeland of Lebanon
Engineering and Public Policy student Karen Fayad, E’19, MS’21, has been working with the Jobs for Lebanon charity to raise money to provide food and reconstruction support to help her home country of Lebanon.
Aug 13, 2020
Abigail Koppes and Ryan Koppes Published in the Journal of Neuroscience Research
ChE Assistant Professors Abigail Koppes and Ryan Koppes published their research in the Journal of Neuroscience titled: “The effects of low intensity focused ultrasonic stimulation on dorsal root ganglion neurons and Schwann cells in vitro.”
Aug 11, 2020
Using Augmented Reality to Train Workforce With New Methods
MIE Assistant Professor Mohsen Moghaddam (PI), Digital Learning Assistant Vice Chancellor Kemi Jona, Khoury Professor Stacy C. Marsella, Public Policy Associate Professor Alicia Sasser Modestino, and CATLTR Associate Director Nicholas C. Wilson, in collaboration with consultant Robert Roy, Massachusetts Manufacturing Extension Partnership, and Microsoft HoloLens Group, were awarded a $150K NSF grant for “Training an Agile, Adaptive Workforce for the Future of Manufacturing with Intelligent Augmented Reality”.
Aug 11, 2020
How to Choose the Best Cloth Face Mask for You
CEE Associate Professor Loretta Fernandez was featured in the NY Times Wirecutter article “How to Choose the Best Cloth Face Mask for You” for her expertise in studying how to make the best fitting mask.
Aug 10, 2020
Cloud Physics Conundrum: Finetuning Climate Models Using Machine Learning
CEE PhD student Nishant Yadav won the Best Student Paper Award by the AI Foundation For Good’s Fragile Earth Workshop for his paper “Machine Learning for Robust Identification of Complex Nonlinear Dynamical Systems: Applications to Earth Systems Modeling.”
Aug 10, 2020
Webster Receives Funding with Spanish Researchers to Develop Better Implants
ChE Professor Thomas Webster and Professor Yadir Torres Hernandez from the University of Seville, Spain; PI have secured funding from the Spanish Government (via the National Research program) for a project entitled “Titanium-based implants with adapted stiffness, biofunctionalized surface and pores filled with biodegradable, antibacterial and potential therapeutic polymers”.
Aug 06, 2020
ECE PhD Student Vageeswar Rajaram Receives Best Paper Award at IEEE IFCS-ISAF
Electrical and Computer Engineering PhD student Vageeswar Rajaram receives best paper award at IEEE IFCS-ISAF 2020 Virtual Conference for his paper “A Zero Standby Power MEMS Switch-based Infrared Sensor with Frequency Output”.