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Aug 28, 2025
Advancing Offshore Wind Careers Through Innovative Learning
CEE Assistant Professor Gilbert Ye, MIE Professor and Chair Yingzi Lin, CEE Professor Andrew Myers, in collaboration with the University of Alabama, were awarded a $1,000,000 NSF grant for “Engaging and Preparing the Offshore Wind Workforce through Hybrid Experiential Learning.”
Aug 28, 2025
Professor and Students Journey to Panama Canal to Study Fluid Mechanics
MIE Associate Professor Carlos Hidrovo and eleven mechanical engineering students ventured on a month-long Dialogue of Civilizations trip to the Panama Canal to study fluid mechanics.
Aug 28, 2025
New AI-Aided Design Framework Creates Auxetic Meta-Laminae
MIE Associate Professor Yaning Li, her former postdoc Shujing Dong (now a professor at Shanghai Polytechnic University), and recent graduate Ammar Batwa, PhD’25, (now a professor at King Abdulaziz University), published their research on “Tuning Local Anisotropy for Macroscopic Auxeticity: Design Auxetic Meta-Lamina via Systematic Finite Element Simulations and Machine Learning Approach” in Materials & Design.
Aug 27, 2025
Award-Winning Paper Shows How to Help Students Achieve Learning Goals
MIE Associate Teaching Professor Marguerite Matherne received the Best Presentation Award for her paper “Effectiveness of Just-In-Time Teaching on Helping Students Achieve Lower Order Learning Goals in a Mechanics of Materials Class,” which was presented at the 2024 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference.
Aug 26, 2025
Patent for a Method to Improve Wireless Communication with AI
ECE Assistant Professor Francesco Restuccia and ECE William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia received a patent for “System for frequency sharing in open radio access networks using artificial intelligence.”
Aug 26, 2025
Paving the Way for Printed Flexible Electronics
ECE Professor Ravinder Dahiya’s research on “Site-Specific Growth and Printing of Nanowires for Resource Efficient Fabrication of Flexible Electronics” was published in Small.
Aug 26, 2025
New Roadmap Article Lays Out a Path for Future AI-Powered Robots
ECE Professor Ravinder Dahiya published “A roadmap for AI in robotics” in Nature Machine Intelligence.
Aug 25, 2025
Advancing Ultra-Efficient AI for Wearables and IoT
ECE Assistant Professor Xiaolin Xu, in collaboration with the University of California-Riverside, was awarded a $560K NSF grant for “Designing and Optimizing Tiny Vector Symbolic Architectures for Ultra-Efficient Inference on Tiny Devices.”