News
Feb 02, 2012
Vaziri Awarded NSF CAREER Award
Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Assistant Professor Ashkan Vaziri has been awarded a $400K NSF CAREER grant to study “Functional Biomimetric Materials with Extreme Topology”.
Jan 27, 2012
Jalili Selected as Fellow
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Associate Professor Nader Jalili has been selected as a fellow of ASME.
Jan 24, 2012
Tracking MassDOT Performance
CIV Professor Ali Touran has teamed up with Pioneer Institute to create a Massachusetts Transportation Dashboard to monitor how MassDOT is using tax dollars to reduce traffic congestion and increase throughput & safety.
Jan 23, 2012
Erdogmus Awarded $95K NSF Grant
ECE Assistant Professor Denis Erdogmus is working with OHSU to apply statistical machine learning technology to minimize any errors that occur during clinical laboratory tests.
Jan 19, 2012
Erdogmus Awarded CAREER Grant
ECE Assistant Professor Denis Erdogmus has been awarded an $505K NSF CAREER grant for “Signal Models, Channel Capacity, and Information Rate for Noninvasive Brain Interfaces”.
Jan 12, 2012
Failure by Design
CIV Chair & Professor, Jerome Hajjar, has designed a system that would allow replaceable steel fuses to absorb the forces of an earthquake and save the building from damage.
Jan 05, 2012
Getting More Out of Exercise
A group of capstone students, under the direction of MIE Professor Constantinos Mavroidis, created the Android app SQUID that monitors exercise routines via a sensor-equipped shirt.
Jan 01, 2012
New Faculty Spotlight: Matthew J. Eckelman
Matthew J. Eckelman joined the Department in January 2012 as an Assistant Professor. An environmental engineer with cross-disciplinary training in the area of sustainable resource engineering and the urban environment, Dr. Eckelman's research uses modeling tools to evaluate the life cycle effects of new materials, technologies, and policies on the environment and human health. He […]