News
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".
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 […]
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.
Jun 28, 2010
Bernal Receives NSF Grant
CIV Professor Dionisio Bernal received a $130K NSF grant to explore his research Algorithm-Fused High Performance Damage Detector: Optimal Sensor Distributions.
Jun 28, 2010
Congratulations
Beverly Jaeger, Susan Freeman, Rich Whalen, & Rebecca Payne won Best Paper for PIC III as well as Best Paper Overall at the 2010 ASEE Annual Conference for their paper “Successful Students: Smart or Tough?”. Both awards will be announced in the November issue of Prism.
Jun 21, 2010
Prof. Vittoria and Harris receive an additional $250K NSF Grant
ECE Professors Carmine Vittoria and Vincent Harris received another NSF grant to continue their work with single phase magnetolelectric materials at room temperature using cation engineered hexaferrite structures.
Jun 09, 2010
Upmanyu Receives ONR Grant
MIE Associate Professor, Moneesh Upmanyu received an $93K grant from the Office of Naval Research for his research “Particle Strengthening of Alloyed Interfaced”
Jun 01, 2010
ASCE Life Member Awards
Rick Scranton, long-time CEE faculty member and College of Engineering Associate Dean, and Fred Aufiero, of Kleinfelder SEA Consultants and Chair of the CEE Industrial Advisory Board, have been awarded Life Member status from the American Society of Civil Engineers.