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Apr 14, 2014

Novel 2D Materials

ECE Associate Professor Hossein Mosallaei was awarded a $1M Department of Defense (DOD) MURI grant as part of a team to work on EM-Physical phenomena of Strongly Linked 2D Functional Materials.  The DOD program is very competitive and every year it opens up a wide variety of opportunities for research.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Apr 11, 2014

SREC Engineering Award

BSME student Robinson Greig was awarded the SREC Engineering Award at this year's RISE Expo for "Gather – Enhanced Short-Term Social Event Discovery and Planning".  The application, "Gather", is meant to provide an easy solution for users who want to plan events and activities together with existing or new friends.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Apr 11, 2014

COE Dean's Award

ECE PhD Aida Ehyaei was awarded the COE Dean's Award at this year's RISE Expo for "A System For Gathering Data on Sleep Behavior and Context in the Home Setting".  

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Apr 11, 2014

Interdisciplinary Research

Jodi Belz (BioE PhD), Stacey Markovic (EE PhD), and Mark Niedre (ECE Assistant Professor) were awarded a Graduate Interdisciplinary Research Award at this year’s RISE Expo. The project, called “Localized tumor delivery of radiosensitizers and chemotherapeutics using ‘INCeRT’ implants” involves a new chemo-treatment that can potentially reduce tumors.

Bioengineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Apr 11, 2014

Entrepreneurship Excellence

Amir Farjadian (BioE PhD), Qingchao Kong (MIE PhD), Carlo Sartori (MIE BSMS), & Constantinos Mavroidis (MIE Prof) received an Excellence in Entrepreneurship Award at this year's RISE Expo. The $5K Entrepreneurship Award is given to the presentation that earns the highest honors during the exhibition. 

Bioengineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Apr 11, 2014

Outstanding Research Award

ECE PhD student Ceyhun Karbeyaz received a Graduate Computer and Information Sciences Research Award at this year's RISE Expo for a Web-based Laboratory for Computational Social Science. The online laboratory will allow researchers to conduct experiments in a much larger scale than they ever could.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Apr 11, 2014

Double Win at RISE 2014

PhD Bioengineering student David Walsh & Juliette Kassas (COS) were awarded the Excellence in Research award AND the Graduate Engineering and Technology Research award at this year's RISE 2014 Expo. The Research medal is one of the main awards given out at RISE; the other three are Innovation, Scholarship and Entrepreneurship. The Research award is […]

Bioengineering

Apr 10, 2014

ECE Professor Ali Abur Named Winner of 2014 IEEE Power & Energy Society Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award

ECE Prof. Ali Abur whose expertise includes fault identification in transmissions and distribution networks, power system state estimation, and visualization of power system operation—has been named the 2014 winner of the IEEE PES Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award. He joins a distinguished cohort of PES scholars providing excellence in engineering education.

Electrical & Computer Engineering