News
Aug 10, 2010
Monitoring Water Quality
Xioadan Ruan, a CEE PhD student under the direction of Associate Professor Ferdi Hellweger, has been testing bacteria levels in the Charles River in hopes that it will once again be swimmable.
Jul 26, 2010
COE Alum Receives Prestigious Fellowship
Moira McSpadden, a ME ‘97 graduate in Information Systems, was selected to receive a Woodrow Wilson Indiana Teaching Fellowship – considered the "Rhodes Scholarship" for teaching.
Jul 21, 2010
Commercializing Nanotechnology
The Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing (CHN) has received a 5-yr $2M grant from the John Adams Innovation Institute to help commercialize their nanomanufacuring technologies for consumers.
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.