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edmund yeh

Aug 21, 2020

Yeh Leads New Initiative to Build Advanced Data Ecosystems for High Energy Physics and Genomics

ECE Professor Edmund Yeh is leading an $875K two-year NSF grant multi-university research initiative for “CC* Integration-Large: N-DISE: NDN for Data Intensive Science Experiments” in collaboration with California Institute of Technology, the University of California at Los Angeles, and Tennessee Technological University.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

professor in lab looking down squirting into lab dish

Aug 19, 2020

Can Real-Time Microbial Monitoring Advance Microalgal Wastewater Treatment?

In a new $2M grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, CEE Assistant Professor Ameet Pinto is collaborating with researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Buffalo, a municipality, and private industry to study the use of algae in purifying wastewater and biofuel production.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Harikrishnan Parameswaran

Aug 17, 2020

Research on Extracellular Matrix Making Waves for Asthma Therapy

BioE Assistant Professor Harikrishnan Parameswaran’s research on “Intercellular communication controls agonist-induced calcium oscillations independently of gap junctions in smooth muscle cells” was published in Science Advances.

Bioengineering

Tom Webster

Aug 17, 2020

ChE Professor and PhD Candidates Selected to Participate in MALSI+ 2020

ChE Professor Thomas Webster, PhD candidate David Medina Cruz, PhD candidate Ada Vernet Crua, and their team selected to participate in MALSI+ 2020 with one of their startups SynCell Biotechnology.

Chemical Engineering

Murtadha Aldoukhi and Surendra M. Gupta

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.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

portrait of student outside with dramatic lighting

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.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

male and female professor posing in their chemical engineering lab with microscope in background

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.”

Chemical Engineering

Mohsen Moghaddam

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”.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering