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Feb 18, 2014

Congratulations PhD candidate Tianxiang Nan

ECE PhD candidate Tianxiang Nan has been selected as one of the five finalists for the Best Student Presentation Award of IEEE Magnetics Conference (Intermag) 2014 in Dresden, Germany. Congratulations!

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Feb 14, 2014

Take 5: Questions of the heart

From studying the physics of a heart­beat to designing new car­diac dis­ease detec­tion methods, these five researchers have the heart on the brain. 1. Drop a beat To Thomas Web­ster, pro­fessor and […]

Chemical Engineering

Feb 13, 2014

Rebecca Carrier advances drug delivery

Rebecca Carrier, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering Scientists and doctors have long known that food digestion affects the way the body absorbs not just nutrients, but also drugs. Fat molecules, […]

Chemical Engineering

Feb 12, 2014

West Awarded DNI Grant

ChE Assistant Professor Richard West was awarded an $100K Doctoral New Investigator (DNI) grant from the American Chemical Society. Dr. West/s main research focuses are catalysis, modeling and simlulation.

Chemical Engineering

Feb 07, 2014

Bold Design Concepts

The designs for the new Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building were featured in ASCE’s Civil Engineering magazine. 

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Feb 07, 2014

Reconfigurable RF systems

ECE Assistant Professor Matteo Rinaldi received a $524K DARPA grant to develop high level intrinsically switchable and programmable MEMS filter arrays. This proposal seeks the development of an intrinsically switchable […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Jan 31, 2014

Nanowire into Nanocircuit

Sivasubramanian Somu (MIE), Ahmed Busnaina (MIE), Nicol McGruer (ECE), & George Adams (MIE) were awarded a patent for their method of integrating a single nanowire into a nanocircuit.  The nano-electromechanical […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Jan 30, 2014

David Kaeli pioneers crowd threat analysis

Dave Kaeli, professor of electrical and computer engineering Kaeli is designing crowd analytics platforms to automatically identify suspicious behavior in vulnerable gathering places, such as transportation hubs and concert halls—and […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering