News
Sep 09, 2024
Reversing Global Warming Effects With Cooling Paint
Through his startup, Planck Energies, MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng is developing a cooling paint that reflects heat waves away from and draws existing heat out of buildings. It could reduce carbon emissions and electricity usage by reducing the need for air conditioning.
Sep 09, 2024
Exploring the School-to-Work Transition for Civil Engineering Students With Disabilities
FYE Assistant Teaching Professor Andrew Gillen, in collaboration with the University of Nebraska and Utah State University, was awarded a $99,998 NSF grant for “Developing Accessible Pathways to Civil Engineering Industry for Students With Disabilities: Initiating Partnerships With Industry.”
Sep 09, 2024
Machine Learning Models Applied to Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Research
A recent paper, “Self-Help Groups and Opioid Use Disorder Treatment: An Investigation Using a Machine Learning-Assisted Robust Causal Inference Framework,” by MIE Associate Professor Muhammad Noor E Alam and his research team was published in the International Journal of Medical Informatics and featured in the The ASAM Weekly, a newsletter of the American Society of Addiction Medicine.
Sep 06, 2024
Building a Successful Career in Medical Robotics From Co-op
Co-ops at Barrett Technology and Z-Kat introduced David Dybala, E’01, electrical and computer engineering, to his postgraduate career and allowed him to have a hand in developing a groundbreaking robotic arm for orthopedic surgeries.
Sep 06, 2024
Portable Tube Bender Streamlines Metal Conduit Installation
Jaison Patel, E’22, mechanical engineering, and Joshua Baum, E’23, mechanical engineering, co-founded startup Tubender to make tube bending for metal conduits an affordable and efficient process. Their technology is based on a prototype created during their senior engineering capstone.
Sep 06, 2024
Alumnus Is Revolutionizing Snacking as Founder of AshaPops
Alongside his mother, Jai Farswani, E’12, industrial engineering, created AshaPops, which sells popped water lily seeds in multiple flavors inspired by family recipes. Their goal is to revolutionize snacking habits nationwide by continuing to bring ayurvedic plant-based foods to major retail chains such as Whole Foods and ShopRite.
Sep 05, 2024
Creating International Deep Tech Partnerships
ECE Professor and Deputy Director of the Institute for NanoSystems Innovation David Horsley, in collaboration with Innovation Impact International, was awarded a $299,898 NSF EAGER grant for “Catalyzing Deep Tech Innovation and Entrepreneurship via International Partnerships.”
Sep 05, 2024
A Bio-Inspired Approach to Material Design
MIE Postdoctoral Research Associate Richard Nash, PhD’23, and Associate Professor Yaning Li published their research, “On-demand Auxeticity and Co-existing Pre-tension Induced Compression Stage in a Sandwich Design With Kinematically Constrained 3D Suture Tiles,” in Nature Communications.