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Mar 11, 2011
ASCE Awards Made for 2010 Outstanding Journal Reviewers
Congratulations to Luca Caracoglia, Assistant Professor, and Jerome F. Hajjar, Professor and Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, for being selected as 2010 Outstanding Reviewers for their review activities for two refereed journals published by the American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Mar 11, 2011
Harris Selected as Klein Lecturer
ECE Professor Vincent Harris has been selected as this year’s Robert D. Klein University Lecturer. This award honors faculty members who have contributed to their field of study and share the fruits of that scholarship with the University and the general public.
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Mar 11, 2011
Mavroidis Awarded $270K Grant
MIE Professor Constantinos Mavroidis has been awarded a $270K NSF grant to develop an inexpensive customizable sensor which will increase the comfort levels of individuals that wear mechatronic devices.
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Mar 10, 2011
Prof. April Gu Wins the 2011 College of Engineering Soren Buus Outstanding Research Award
Professor April Gu has won the 2011 College of Engineering Soren Buus Outstanding Research Award for her groundbreaking research on removing contaminants from water and wastewater and her interdisciplinary research on studying toxicology and sensing of nanomaterials.
Mar 10, 2011
Congratulations COE Award Winners
Congratulations to the recipients of this year's College of Engineering Faculty and Staff awards.
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Mar 01, 2011
COE Alum Modernizes GPS Technology
John Betz, a ME'79, PhD'84 graduate in Electrical Engineering, has contributed to modernizing the Navstar Global Positioning System (GPS) and other Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSSs).
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Feb 28, 2011
Turning the Theoretical into Reality
Under the direction of Beverly Jaeger, a group of freshman engineering students are working to improve the gear used by service dogs to help the disabled.
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Feb 22, 2011
Measuring Interatomic Distances
ECE Professor Lee Makowski has received a $280K NIH grant to develop MADMAX, a Multi-wavelength Anomalous Diffraction using Medium Angle X-ray solution scattering, for the precise measurement of conformational changes in proteins.