News
Aug 12, 2015
Sun Awarded $364K NSF Grant
ECE Professor Nian Sun was awarded a $364K NSF grant for creating "Nanomagnetic Stimulation Capability for Neural Investigation and Control".
Aug 12, 2015
Monitoring Marine Mammal with POAWRS
ECE Associate Professors Purnima Makris and Gunar Schirner were awarded a $300K NSF grant for the "Development of an interim passive ocean acoustic waveguide remote sensing system for instantaneous continental-shelf scale marine mammal monitoring, localization and species classification".
Aug 11, 2015
The Sustainability of WInd Energy
CEE Assistant Professor Andrew Myers discusses the sustainability of offshore wind farms, with the first wind platform in the U.S. being installed off the coast of Block Island last month.
Aug 11, 2015
CEE PhD Student wins 2015 O. H. Ammann Research Fellowship
CEE PhD student Lizhong Wang is one of four winners of the national 2015 O. H. Ammann Research Fellowship from the Structural Engineering Institute of ASCE.
Aug 11, 2015
Hajjar Wins 2015 BSCES Clemens Herschel Award
CEE Chair Jerome Hajjar won the 2015 BSCES Clemens Herschel Award from the Boston Society of Civil Engineers Section of ASCE.
Aug 11, 2015
Fu Receives IEEE CIS Outstanding Early Career Award
ECE & CCIS Associate Professor Y. Raymond Fu is the awardee of the 2016 IEEE CIS Outstanding Early Career Award, for contributions to neural computing, manifold learning, and visual intelligence.
Aug 11, 2015
Webster to Give Plenary Lecture at International Symposium on Energy Challenges and Mechanics
Art Zafiropoulo Chair and ChE Professor Thomas Webster will present a plentary lecture at the 4th International Symposium on Energy Challenges and Mechanics – working on small scales.
Aug 10, 2015
Understanding Toughness
MIE Associate Professor Sandra Shefelbine, Assistant Professor Randal Erb & Physics Professor Alain Karma received a $445K NSF grant to determine the toughness of a material and try to recreate it with synthetic components.