News
Jul 17, 2018
Prof. Laura H. Lewis Selected for the 2018 Mechanical Engineering Academy of Distinguished Alumni Honorees at UT – Austin
The University of Texas at Austin has selected ChE/MIE Professor Laura Lewis as one of the “2018 Mechanical Engineering Academy of Distinguished Alumni Honorees”.
Jul 16, 2018
Helping Babies Breathe
BioE PhD student and co-founder of Therapeutic Innovations, Solomon Mensah, has developed a device called Airbaby which will help deliver ambient air and oxygen to premature babies allowing them to breathe.
Jul 12, 2018
Robots Could Help Local Fisheries
ECE Associate Professor Taskin Padir is working with local seafood plants to develop robots to help with processing the fish which would reduce imports and improve the production of local fisheries.
Jul 11, 2018
Technical Innovation and Product Prototyping in Silicon Valley
Written by Anja Deric, a second year BS in electrical engineering student. About me Anja Deric is a second year student pursuing a BS in electrical engineering. She is a […]
Jul 11, 2018
Best Paper Finalists at ASEE Annual Conference
MIE Teaching Professor Beverly Jaeger-Helton and Associate Teaching Professor Bridget Smyser were selected as Best Paper Finalists for their paper “The Write Background Makes a Difference: What Research and Writing Skills can Predict About Project Success” in the Design in Engineering Education Division at the 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition.
Jul 11, 2018
Using an Elastic Surface for Reprogrammable Braille
MIE Professor Ashkan Vaziri’s research on “Reprogrammable Braille on an Elastic Shell” was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS).
Jul 11, 2018
People Tend to Live & Travel to Similar Racial and Socioeconomic Areas as Themselves
CEE Assistant Professor Qi ‘Ryan’ Wang’s article on “Urban mobility and neighborhood isolation in America’s 50 largest cities” was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS).
Jul 11, 2018
New Faculty Spotlight: Hao Sun
Hao Sun joins the Civil and Environmental Engineering department in July 2018 as an Assistant Professor.