News
Jan 06, 2009
Prof. Marengo named 2008 most distinguished alumnus
Prof. Edwin Marengo was named the 2008 most distinguished alumnus of the Technological University of Panama in the category of research, innovation, and technological development. The university grants five awards to the most distinguished alumni of the year, in five different categories.
Jan 06, 2009
$9 Million Grant Awarded to Assess the Condition of Bridges and Roadways
The VOTERS (Versatile Onboard Traffic Embedded Roaming Sensors) project, led by Prof. Ming Wang and Sara Wadia-Fascetti, will gather accurate, up-to-date condition information on roadways and bridges using compact instrument packages installed in cars and trucks.
Jan 02, 2009
Congratulations to Roni Mittelman and Dilber Gamsiz
Roni Mittelman, an Electrical Engineering PhD student and Dilber Gamsiz, a Chemical Engineering PhD student, are recipients of the Dissertation Writing Fellowships for the 2009 Spring Semester. The award is sponsored by the Office of the Provost and offers financial support to Ph.D. candidates so they may spend their final semester writing.
Dec 22, 2008
Purnima Ratilal is winner of Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
This is the nation's highest honor for professionals at the outset of their independent scientific research careers.
Dec 17, 2008
Engineers Without Borders visit Honduras
Check out the EWB student website for video from their latest trip to Honduras and their focus on providing clean water to the village of Los Planes.
Dec 17, 2008
Chemical Engineering Graduate Students to Participate in International Exchange
ChE Ph.D. students Courtney Pfluger and Mariam Ismail have been invited by the The Younger Chemists Committee of the American Chemical Society Northeastern Section (NESACS) and the NESACS Education Committee to participate in an educational exchange program to take place in Essen, Germany, on March 8-15, 2009, as guests of the Jungchemikerforum (Young Chemists Committee, JCF) of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (German Chemical Society, GDCh).
Dec 12, 2008
Engineering students partner with Greek firm to invent robotized cleaning system for solar panels
A group of MIE students have designed a groundbreaking, robotic cleaning system for solar panels that has been submitted for a patent.
Dec 10, 2008
Necmiye Ozay receives CDC best student paper award
Necmiye Ozay, an Electrical Engineering graduate student, is the recipient of the best student paper award at the Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) for her paper entitled "A sparsification approach to set membership identification of a class of affine hybrid systems", co-authored with M. Sznaier, C. Lagoa and O. Camps.