Dear Colleagues,
We are happy to share the second edition of the COE Research Focus with you, including research highlights, research news, as well as introducing new faculty hires. Our inaugural edition was published on August 24, 2015.
It is exciting to see continued growth in our research activities. Our faculty have received 18 new NSF grants this fiscal year. We continue to diversify funding sources with increasing number of recent major grants from NIH and DOD. The college was abuzz with close to 70 proposals submitted in October.
While funding is necessary, we will continue to track and maximize the impact of our research. A list of recent patents is included in this edition. It is difficult to track publications on a monthly basis, so we will continue to track and assess publications on a yearly basis. A list of papers published in 2014 is available at COE website. A few recent research examples are included here and highlighted at our COE News website. Of course, if you have any new publications in high impact journals, we urge you to let Mariah know upon acceptance into the journal (before publication).
Further building our research enterprise is a shared undertaking; we appreciate your ideas and suggestions to maximize the capacity for, and the impact of, our research. We look forward to working with you all on this important endeavor.
Selected Research Highlights
Professors Rinaldi and McGruer Receive Two DARPA MTO Awards
ECE Assistant Professor Matteo Rinaldi and Professor Nicol McGruer received a $1.6M award from DARPA MTO to develop a “Zero Power Sensors (ZePS).” and a $1.1M award to develop a “Plasmonic Microelectromechanical Infrared Digitizer (PLASMID).”
ALERT win Two $1.2M DHS awards
ECE Professors Michael Silevitch, Carey Rappaport, and Jose Martinez (also with MIE) and ALERT’s John Beaty were awarded $1.2M two-year Task Order DHS contract to transition research from ALERT’s Advanced Imaging Technology Laboratory into technology suitable for commercialization. ECE Professor Michael Silevitch and ALERT’s John Beaty were also awarded a $1.2M two year Task Order contract from the DHS to systematize the processes associated with sampling of trace explosives using swipes for security screening equipment.
Sipahi Receives ASME/DSCD Young Investigator Award
MIE Associate Professor Rifat Sipahi was selected to receive the 2015 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Division Outstanding Young Investigator Award. Read More
Ebong Receives Prestigious NIH Award
ChE Assistant Professor Eno Ebong was awarded a prestigious $650K NIH Mentored Research Scientist Career Development Award. Read More
Niedre Awarded $1.5M Second R01 Grant
ECE Associate Professor, Mark Niedre, received a $1.5M RO1 grant from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute of NIH for Ultra-Rare Cell In Vivo Flow Cytometry.
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HSyE Awarded $1.7M to Support Veterans Health Administration
The Healthcare Systems Engineering Institute (HSyE), led by MIE Professor James Benneyan, was awarded $1.7M to implement "lean" Toyota Production System methods for the VA.
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Big Data Alternative Clustering
ECE Professors Jennifer Dy & David Kaeli, and CEE Associate Professor April Gu were awarded a $860K NSF grant for “Exploring Analysis of Environment and Health Through Multiple Alternative Clustering”.
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Research Fair a Big Success
The COE Undergraduate Research Lab fair gathered hundreds of students eager to learn about the research opportunities available to them.
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Koppes Published in Science
New ChE Assistant Professor Ryan Koppes was featured in the journal
Science for "Restoring the sense of touch". The article is already being cited by several other news outlets such as Popular Mechanics, NBC News, and Ars Technica.
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Goluch Featured in Chemistry World
ChE Assistant Professor Edgar Goluch's group featured in
Chemistry World for their recent article on "Electrochemically monitoring the antibiotic susceptibility of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms".
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