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Sep 23, 2015
Rinaldi and McGruer Receive DARPA MTO Award
ECE Assistant Professor Matteo Rinaldi and Professor Nicol McGruer have received a $1.1M award from DARPA MTO to develop a “Plasmonic Microelectromechanical Infrared Digitizer (PLASMID).”
Sep 23, 2015
Patent for Harris & Vittoria
ECE Professors Vincent Harris & Carmine Vittoria awarded patent for “Voltage tuning of microwave magnetic devices using magnetoelectric transducers”.
Sep 21, 2015
COE Receives 12th Federally Funded Center
CEE Professor Akram Alshawabkeh and his team were awarded a $2.9M federally funded grant for a “Center for Research on Early Childhood Exposure and Development in Puerto Rico (CRECE).”
Sep 18, 2015
Interdisciplinary Approach to Treat Vascular Diseases
ChE Assistant Professor Eno Ebong is using interdisciplinary research to search for the cause and treatment of vascular diseases that cause heart attacks and strokes.
Sep 16, 2015
Neural Controlled Prosthetics
ECE Associate Professors Denis Erdogmus, Gunar Schirner, & Taskin Padir awarded $603K NSF grant to develop a Hand Augmentation using Nested Decision (HAND) for those with lost limb function.
Sep 14, 2015
Silevitch, Rappaport, Martinez win $1.2M DHS award
ECE Profs. Michael Silevitch, Carey Rappaport, and Jose Martinez (also with MIE) and ALERT’s John Beaty were awarded $1.2M two-year Task Order DHS contract to transition research from ALERT’s Advanced Imaging Technology Laboratory into technology suitable for commercialization.
Sep 11, 2015
ChE Student to Present Research in Germany
ChE undergraduate student John Yao, who participated in the International Research Exchange Program at URV in Taragona Spain over the summer, will present his research at Aachen University in Germany this week at the EuroMembrane 2015 Conference.
Sep 09, 2015
Sternad Awarded EAGER Grant
COS & ECE Professor Dagmar Sternad was awarded a $171K NSF EAGER grant for "Challenging the Cognitive-Control Divide". Abstract Source: NSF This EArly-concept Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER) collaborative research project is between an expert in robotics and control theory and an expert in experimental and computational motor neuroscience. It bridges cognitive science, experimental psychology […]