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Mar 10, 2011

Congratulations COE Award Winners

Congratulations to the recipients of this year's College of Engineering Faculty and Staff awards.

Chemical Engineering, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

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).

Electrical & Computer Engineering

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.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

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.

Bioengineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Feb 22, 2011

Receiving the Highest Honor

MIE Professor James Benneyan has been awarded the Smalley President’s Award, the highest honor from the Society for Health Systems for his lifelong service to the healthcare IE profession.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Feb 17, 2011

Teaching Students Through Video Games

The Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing (CHN) has developed Geckoman!, an online video game, that teaches middle-school students about nanoscience.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Feb 16, 2011

Chory Chosen as a Pioneering Leader

Emma Chory, ChE’12, has been selected as a Steamboat Scholar. The summer program provides talented undergrads prestigious internships with Grant Partners to cultivate their leadership skills.

Chemical Engineering

Feb 15, 2011

Passing Knowledge On

STEM Associate Professor Christos Zahopoulos has received the IEEE-USA Professional Achievement for Individuals Award for “sparking precollegiate interest in technology and engineering careers” through NU’s RE-SEED program.