News
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.
Sep 30, 2010
Ratilal Awarded $1M NSF Grant
Purnima Ratilal, associate professor of ECE, has received a $1M NSF grant to develop a Lightweight Towed Area Receiver (LTAR) to remotely monitor and image large areas of the ocean environment.
Sep 30, 2010
Creating Artificial Corneas
MIE Associate Professor Jeff Ruberti has been awarded a $380K grant from the National Eye Institute for his work in engineering biomimetic corneal constructs.
Sep 29, 2010
Moving Society Forward
CIV Chair & Professor, Jerome Hajjar, is a recipient of a 2010 Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award for his work in creating building structures that are earthquake proof.
Sep 28, 2010
Understanding Animal Behaviors
ECE Assistant Professor Denis Erdogmus has been awarded a $156K NSF grant to develop computational models that will track primate social behaviors unobtrusively.
Sep 28, 2010
How Food Affects Drug Delivery
ChE Assistant Professor Rebecca Carrier was featured in the latest issue of Chemical & Engineering News to explain her computational models of how foods interact with medications.
Sep 24, 2010
Studying Coordinated Interaction
Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor, Dagmar Sternad, has received a $1.6M NIH grant to test how the brain controls a person’s movements and coordination.