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Jul 14, 2010

Creating a First Alert Helmet

Under the direction of Associate Professor Sinan Muftu, a team of MIE capstone students, developed a helmet that could measure the severity of head injuries after a fall and alert first responders to the significance of the damage.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Jul 13, 2010

Studying Skill Acquisition

ECE Professor, Dagmar Sternad, has received a $324K NIH grant to discover the acquistion, adaptation, and control of skilled movements in order to restore sensorimotor function in neurological disorders.

Bioengineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Jul 12, 2010

Niedre Awarded $1.3M Grant

ECE Assistant Professor, Mark Niedre, has received a $1.3M R01 grant from NIH to develop a new high-resolution fluorescence imaging system.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Jul 07, 2010

Congratulations

ECE Professor Emeritus John G. Proakis has been awarded a Honorary Doctorate degree in Digital Communications and Signal Processing from the University of Athens in Greece.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Jul 06, 2010

Mosallaei Receives Patent

ECE Assistant Professor, Hossein Mosallaei has been awarded a patent for his work in “Dielectric and magnetic particles based metamaterials”.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Jul 06, 2010

Hashemi & Vaziri Receive $300K

MIE Professor Hamid Nayeb-Hashemi & Assistant Professor Ashkan Vaziri have received a multi-national grant from QNRF for their "Novel approaches for structural protection in the oil, gas, and petrechemical industry".

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Jul 01, 2010

Deborah A. Snyder (BSCE 1999) wins the 2010 Edmund Friedman Young Engineer Award for Professional Achievement from the ASCE

The Edmund Friedman Young Engineer Award for Professional Achievement is made to younger members of ASCE who are judged to have attained significant professional achievements by the degree to which they have served the profession and contributed to public service outside their professional careers. Deborah Snyder is currently a Technical Operations Manager and Project Manager […]

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Jun 30, 2010

Creating a Sticky Situation

MIE Assistant Professor Ashkan Vaziri is trying to replicate the adhesion properties of a gecko’s footpad for use in controlling small high-tech microrobots or smart adhesives.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering