News
Feb 28, 2025
New Microelectronics Manufacturing Process To Slash Production Costs
University Distinguished and MIE William Lincoln Smith Professor Ahmed Busnaina developed an additive “bottom-up” approach to the manufacturing process for silicon microprocessors or memory chips that drastically reduces production time and costs while making it more efficient and accessible.
Feb 28, 2025
The Superconductivity of Layered Graphine Is Surprisingly Strange
ECE/COS Associate Professor Kin Chung Fong was featured in the New Scientist article “The Superconductivity of Layered Graphene Is Surprisingly Strange.”
Feb 26, 2025
Abowd Receives ACM SIGCHI Special Recognition Award
Gregory D. Abowd, dean of the College of Engineering and ECE professor, received the Association of Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM SIGCHI) Special Recognition Award “for his extraordinary ability to inspire and mentor individuals from diverse backgrounds and his commitment to fostering collaboration, creativity, and impact.”
Feb 25, 2025
Academics and Software Skills Lead to Career Start at Amazon Web Services
Siddharth Gargava, MS’24, information systems, plans to use skills he acquired through his coursework and co-op at Hewlett Packard Enterprise as a new software development engineer at Amazon Web Services.
Feb 25, 2025
PhD Student Wins Alan Gent Distinguished Student Paper Award
Zumrat Usmanova, PhD’27, mechanical engineering, who is advised by Ruobing Bai, assistant professor of mechanical and industrial engineering, was recognized with the highly competitive Alan Gent Distinguished Student Paper Award from The Adhesion Society.
Feb 25, 2025
Young Alumni Impact Award Winners Share Their Career Journeys
As part of Engineers Week, Gregory Abowd, dean of the College of Engineering, presented the college’s inaugural Young Alumni Impact Awards to six recent graduates who are transforming industries and inspiring the next generation. The award recipients shared their career journeys and how they turned their experiential education into impactful careers. View the video recap and photo gallery.
Feb 25, 2025
Are There Rare Earth Minerals in Ukraine?
Laura Lewis, university distinguished and Cabot professor of ChE and MIE, who studies critical minerals and their applications, discusses a deal that would give the U.S. a share of Ukraine’s critical raw minerals.
Feb 20, 2025
Lustig Named Senior Member of National Academy of Inventors
ChE Associate Professor Steve Lustig was selected as a National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Senior Member, a prestigious honor recognizing active faculty, scientists, and administrators from NAI Member Institutions who have demonstrated remarkable innovation-producing technologies that have made or aspire to make an impact on society’s welfare.