News
Jul 30, 2020
Designing the Most Effective Face Masks
CEE Associate Professor Loretta Fernandez and Assistant Professor Amy Mueller are examining the best fit, while ChE Associate Professor Steve Lustig is determining the best combinations of materials for the most effective mask to protect against COVID-19.
Jul 29, 2020
COE Co-op Recognizes Six Employer Partners
The College of Engineering Co-op team reinstated our Employer Awards this year to honor those employers who have gone above and beyond for our students during the 2019-2020 academic year. The six employer awardees include: Insulet, NASA JPL, Dragonfly, DN Tanks, Acacia, and Faithful and Gould.
Jul 29, 2020
Hackathon Winners Build App for Students with Limited Internet Access
College of Engineering Information Systems and Engineering Management students win COVID-19 Virtual Hackathon, in which they developed a mobile application to allow students in India to still learn skills even with limited access to the internet.
Jul 29, 2020
Improving Medical Staffing in Long Term Care During Pandemic
MIE Professor Ozlem Ergun was awarded a $101K NSF RAPID grant for “Collecting Supply, Demand, and Matching Data for Assigning Medical Staff to Long Term Care Facilities During the COVID-19 Pandemic”.
Jul 28, 2020
Patent for Analyzing Facial Features for the Cosmetics Industry
ECE/Khoury Professor Yun Raymond Fu was awarded a patent for “System for beauty, cosmetic, and fashion analysis”.
Jul 28, 2020
ECE Team Wins Facebook Research Award
ECE Associate Professor Stratis Ioannidis is leading a team with Professors Jennifer Dy and Deniz Erdoğmuş, that won a highly competitive Facebook Research Award with their project “Learning from Comparisons”.
Jul 28, 2020
Researching How Gravity Impacts Gel Materials Including Tests in Space
MIE Assistant Professor Safa Jamali is leading a $500K NSF grant, in collaboration with Ali Mohraz from University of California, Irvine, for studying “Bimodal Colloidal Assembly, Coarsening and Failure: Decoupling Sedimentation and Particle Size Effects”.
Jul 23, 2020
Developing VLF Magnetoelectric Antennas for Communication Systems
ECE Professor Nian X. Sun was awarded a patent for creating a “Magnetoelectric very low frequency communication system.”