News
Aug 01, 2011
New Faculty Spotlight: Auroop R. Ganguly
Auroop R. Ganguly joined the Department as an Associate Professor after seven years at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, most recently as a Senior R&D Staff in their Computational Sciences and Engineering division, as well as a joint faculty in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. He was previously employed […]
Aug 01, 2011
New Faculty Spotlight: Ralf Birken
Ralf Birken was appointed Research Assistant Professor after serving as a Senior Research Scientist and collaborating with Profs. Ming Wang and Sara Wadia-Fascetti on the VOTERS Center. Dr. Birken has over thirteen years of research and engineering experience in near-surface geophysical mapping focusing on the development of efficient non-invasive electromagnetic (GPR and EMI) subsurface imaging […]
Jul 25, 2011
Monitoring Aquatic Ecosystems
Civil and Environmental Engineering Associate Professor Ferdi Hellweger was awarded a $61K NSF grant to determine what environmental impacts affect the life cycle of phytoplankton.
Jul 25, 2011
Sipahi Awarded DARPA Grant
MIE Assistant Professor Rifat Sipahi received a $300K DARPA grant for his research “Model-Free Algorithms to Assist and Control Human-Task Missions against Dynamic Environments.”
Jul 20, 2011
$2.5M Gift for Endowed Faculty Chair
Entrepreneur Arthur Zafiropoulo has donated $2.5M to establish a new College of Engineering endowed faculty chair, one of the highest recognitions that a faculty member can receive.
Jul 20, 2011
Kirda Receives NSF Grant
ECE and CCS Associate Professor Engin Kirda was awarded a $486K NSF grant to develop tools to automatically detect when a malicious bot is trying to connect to a computer host.
Jul 18, 2011
Isaacs & Busnaina Awarded $1.2M Grant
MIE Professors Jackie Isaacs and Ahmed Busnaina have received an $1.2M NSF grant to use LCA methods to determine the ethical, legal, and societal impacts of scaling nanomanufacturing to commercial production.
Jul 18, 2011
ASME is Making a Splash
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers student group designed and built a solar-powered boat that placed 8th in the sprint event at the national collegiate Solar Splash competition in Iowa.