News
Jul 19, 2010
Extracting the Cure from Flowers
ChE Associate Professor Carolyn Lee-Parsons has received a $550K NSF grant to increase the production of highly-valued medicinal alkaloids from the Madagascar periwinkle plant.
Jul 15, 2010
Double Congratulations
Ismail Ilker Delice, a Mechanical Engineering PhD student, received the Best Presentation in Session Award at the recent American Control Conference as well as a $5K Ferretti Fellowship from the MIE Department for his outstanding academic standing.
Jul 14, 2010
Creating a First Alert Helmet
Under the direction of Associate Professor Sinan Muftu, a team of MIE capstone students, developed a helmet that could measure the severity of head injuries after a fall and alert first responders to the significance of the damage.
Jul 13, 2010
Studying Skill Acquisition
ECE Professor, Dagmar Sternad, has received a $324K NIH grant to discover the acquistion, adaptation, and control of skilled movements in order to restore sensorimotor function in neurological disorders.
Jul 12, 2010
Niedre Awarded $1.3M Grant
ECE Assistant Professor, Mark Niedre, has received a $1.3M R01 grant from NIH to develop a new high-resolution fluorescence imaging system.
Jul 07, 2010
Congratulations
ECE Professor Emeritus John G. Proakis has been awarded a Honorary Doctorate degree in Digital Communications and Signal Processing from the University of Athens in Greece.
Jul 06, 2010
Mosallaei Receives Patent
ECE Assistant Professor, Hossein Mosallaei has been awarded a patent for his work in “Dielectric and magnetic particles based metamaterials”.
Jul 06, 2010
Hashemi & Vaziri Receive $300K
MIE Professor Hamid Nayeb-Hashemi & Assistant Professor Ashkan Vaziri have received a multi-national grant from QNRF for their "Novel approaches for structural protection in the oil, gas, and petrechemical industry".