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Aug 02, 2018
Designing Metamaterials with Origami Shapes
Mechanical engineering PhD student Soroush Kamrava is researching ways to incorporate origami ideas with metamaterials to create objects that can collapse, absorb energy, and then spring back into place.
Aug 02, 2018
Vaziri & Nayeb-Hashemi Win TAML 2018 Excellent Paper Award
MIE Professors Ashkan Vaziri and Hamid Nayeb-Hashemi won the Theoretical & Applied Mechanics Letters (TAML) 2018 Excellent Paper Award for their paper “Elastic properties of chiral, anti-chiral, and hierarchical honeycombs: A simple energy-based approach”.
Aug 01, 2018
Jung and Kar Awarded Patent for Ultrasensitive Ion Detector
MIE Professor Yung Joon Jung and affiliated Physics Associate Professor Swastik Kar were awarded a patent for “Ultrasensitive ion detector using carbon nanotubes or graphene”.
Jul 31, 2018
Neural Network Modules for Computer Vision Systems
ECE Professors Octavia Camps and Mario Sznaier were awarded a $500K NSF grant for "Dynamic and Statistical Based Invariants on Manifolds for Video Analysis." Abstract Source: NSF Computer vision systems […]
Jul 30, 2018
Carrier Awarded $300K NSF Grant for Tissue Modeling
ChE Professor Rebecca Carrier, in collaboration with Erin Lavik from the University of Maryland Baltimore County, was awarded a $300K NSF grant for “Engineering Architecture for Tissue Models”.
Jul 30, 2018
Discovery of Water on Mars Could Make Trips There More Possible
ECE Associate Professor Taskin Padir is excited that the recent confirmation of water on Mars will make human trips to Mars more feasible.
Jul 26, 2018
Busnaina and Somu Awarded Patent
MIE Professor Ahmed Busnaina & Director of the Kostas Nanoscale Research Center Siva Somu were awarded a patent for “Single-walled carbon nanotube biosensor for detection of glucose, lactate, and urea”.
Jul 26, 2018
Developing Alternatives to Rare Earth Materials
ChE/MIE Professor Laura Lewis and ECE Professor Vincent Harris are working on alternatives to rare-earth metals which are used from everything from smartphones to guided missiles to reduce our reliance on China.