News
Oct 27, 2010
Article Voted Top in Past Decade
ECE Associate Professor Nian Sun’s paper on “Giant Electric Field Tuning of Magnetic Properties in Multiferroic Heterostructures” has been selected as one of the 10 most outstanding full papers & featured articles in the past ten years in Advanced Functional Materials.
Oct 26, 2010
Bringing Research to Reality
ECE Professor Michael Silevitch spoke at the recent Research and Industrial Collaboration Conference about the importance of research collaboration to solve global security issues.
Oct 20, 2010
COE Alum wins Young Investigator Award
Tuba Okutucu, a PhD‘05 graduate in Mechanical Engineering, won the Young Investigator Award from the Turkish Scientific Foundation for her research on MEMS Production of Microchannel Heat Sinks with Nanofluids as the Working Fluid and their Application in Microchip Cooling.
Oct 15, 2010
Professor Hajjar Receives Popular Mechanics Award
Jerome F. Hajjar, Professor and Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been named a recipient of a 2010 Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award, which recognizes the products and innovators that truly moved society forward in 2010.
Oct 12, 2010
Leaders in Engineering
Jackie Isaacs, Deniz Erdogmus, and Kate Ziemer have been invited to speak at the National Academy of Engineering’s Frontiers of Engineering Education Symposium.
Oct 08, 2010
Impact of TiO2 Nanoparticles
CEE Assistant Professor April Gu’s research was featured in the latest issue of Chemical & Engineering News describing how TiO2 nanomaterials are affecting the carbon and nitrogen cycles of aquatic ecosystems.
Oct 04, 2010
Mosallaei Receives 2 Grants
ECE Assistant Professor, Hossein Mosallaei has won a Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) award for Tunable Optical Metamaterials and a AFOSR grant to exploit dielectric and plasmonic particles for nanoscale energy engineering.
Oct 04, 2010
Students win Touch of Genius Prize for Innovation
Under the advisement of Associate Professor Gregory Kowalski, a team of MIE capstone students, has won the Touch of Genius Prize for Innovation from the National Braille Press for designing an inexpensive Braille embosser.