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Feb 18, 2014
Congratulations PhD candidate Tianxiang Nan
ECE PhD candidate Tianxiang Nan has been selected as one of the five finalists for the Best Student Presentation Award of IEEE Magnetics Conference (Intermag) 2014 in Dresden, Germany. Congratulations!
Feb 14, 2014
Take 5: Questions of the heart
From studying the physics of a heartbeat to designing new cardiac disease detection methods, these five researchers have the heart on the brain. 1. Drop a beat To Thomas Webster, professor and chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering, all heart attacks are created equal. While clinicians don’t always treat heart attacks with large-scale interventions such as […]
Feb 13, 2014
Rebecca Carrier advances drug delivery
Rebecca Carrier, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering Scientists and doctors have long known that food digestion affects the way the body absorbs not just nutrients, but also drugs. Fat molecules, in particular, can help people absorb drugs, including oral chemotherapy treatments, more efficiently. What we have yet to discover are the details of this process […]
Feb 12, 2014
West Awarded DNI Grant
ChE Assistant Professor Richard West was awarded an $100K Doctoral New Investigator (DNI) grant from the American Chemical Society. Dr. West/s main research focuses are catalysis, modeling and simlulation.
Feb 07, 2014
Bold Design Concepts
The designs for the new Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building were featured in ASCE’s Civil Engineering magazine.
Feb 07, 2014
Reconfigurable RF systems
ECE Assistant Professor Matteo Rinaldi received a $524K DARPA grant to develop high level intrinsically switchable and programmable MEMS filter arrays. This proposal seeks the development of an intrinsically switchable and frequency programmable piezoelectric Micro Electro Mechanical System (MEMS) resonator technology platform capable of delivering field programmable filtering in an extremely miniaturized form factor (< […]
Jan 31, 2014
Nanowire into Nanocircuit
Sivasubramanian Somu (MIE), Ahmed Busnaina (MIE), Nicol McGruer (ECE), & George Adams (MIE) were awarded a patent for their method of integrating a single nanowire into a nanocircuit. The nano-electromechanical switch uses carbon nanotubes as the actuation element.
Jan 30, 2014
David Kaeli pioneers crowd threat analysis
Dave Kaeli, professor of electrical and computer engineering Kaeli is designing crowd analytics platforms to automatically identify suspicious behavior in vulnerable gathering places, such as transportation hubs and concert halls—and he is the first in this field to solve the data processing issues by employing graphics processing units. Continuous detection of individual threats in crowded […]