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Jan 29, 2025
Capstone Project Leads to High-Speed Drone To Shadow Race Cars
For their capstone project, a group of mechanical engineering students led by David Lobo, E’24, developed a high-speed, first-person-view drone capable of traveling 187 mph while shadowing race cars. The drone could be a game changer in high-speed video capture.
Jan 29, 2025
Tips For Avoiding Static Electricity Shocks During Winter
COS/ECE Assistant Professor Ivana Dimitrova explains how dry winter air causes static electricity that can result in sometimes painful shocks and offers tips to prevent them, like using a coin or key to touch a metal object.
Jan 28, 2025
First Cohort of NSF NRT Student Trainees Share Value of Interdisciplinary Research
The first cohort of trainees of the NSF NRT Platforms for Exchange and Allocation of Resources grant share the value of the program’s interdisciplinary research, stipends, curriculum, seminars, and faculty mentorship. Applications are now open to be a trainee for the fall 2025 semester.
Jan 28, 2025
Patent Awarded for Lightweight Pose Estimation Network
ECE Distinguished/Khoury Professor Yun Raymond Fu was awarded a patent for “Light-weight pose estimation network with multi-scale heatmap fusion.”
Jan 28, 2025
NSF CAREER Award for Generative AI-Driven Bioprocess Learning and Optimization To Advance Biomanufacturing
MIE Assistant Professor Wei Xie was awarded a $596,920 NSF CAREER Award for “Mechanism-Informed AI for Biological Systems-of-Systems to Accelerate Biomanufacturing Systems Integration and Innovations.” The project aims to create innovative bioprocess-specific AI for general biological ecosystems that can facilitate flexible and intelligent on-demand manufacturing systems for biopharmaceuticals.
Jan 24, 2025
Researchers Warn of Damaging Effects of Smoke From California Fires
Bioengineering Associate Professors Chiara Bellini and Jessica Oakes highlight the dangerous health effects of inhaling wildfire smoke. Their research provides insight into the risks the California wildfires pose for people’s respiratory and cardiovascular systems.
Jan 21, 2025
ChE PhD Student Wins Best Poster Award at NECS
Chengyu Zhou, PhD’28, chemical engineering, who is advised by Qing Zhao, assistant professor of chemical engineering, won first place for the Best Poster Award at the New England Catalysis Symposium (NECS) for his poster “Computational Insights into Lithium-Mediated Electrochemical Nitrogen Reduction Reaction for Sustainable Ammonia Production.”
Jan 17, 2025
Improving the Strength and Toughness of Soft Materials
MIE Assistant Professor Ruobing Bai, in collaboration with Michigan State University, is leading a $705,664 NSF grant for the “Mechanics of End-Linked Polymer Networks With Strain-Induced Crystallization Regulated by Topological Defects.” The research will facilitate emerging applications such as soft robotics, medical devices, and wearable electronics.