Andrew Barnard’s (ME-EM) CNT active exhaust system was chosen to compete in the semifinals of the Global Automotive and Mobility Innovation Competition (GAMIC) Feb. 23, 2017, in Detroit. Graduate student Suraj Prabhu is also working on the project.
Presented by SAE International and the MI Innovation Alliance, GAMIC provides early‐stage start‐ups with an opportunity for competition‐prep coaching and targeted exposure to decision‐makers.
L. Brad King (ME-EM) is the principal investigator on a project that has received a $19,372 research and development contract with the Utah State University Research Foundation.
This is a one-year project.
By Sponsored Programs.
Bo Chen (ME-EM) is the principal investigator on a project that has received a $24,000 research and development contract from the Argonne National Laboratory. The project is titled, “Modeling and Control Development for Electric Vehicle and Smart Grid Integration.” This is a five-month project.
Umesh Korde (ME-EM/AIM) is the PI on a research and development project that has received a $167,379 grant from the National Science Foundation. The title of the project is “Collaborative Research: On Making Wave Energy an Economical and Reliable Power Source for Ocean Measurement Applications.”
This is a one-and-a-half-year project.
Gordon Parker (MEEM) is the principal investigator on a research and development project that has received a $157,460 grant from the U.S. Department of Defense, Office of Naval Research. Rush Robinett (MEEM) and Eddy Trinklien (MEEM) are Co-PIs on the three-year project titled, “Increasing Ship Power System Capability through Energy Control.”
Eighty-three of the nation’s brightest young engineers have been selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) 22nd annual US Frontiers of Engineering (USFOE) symposium. Nina Mahmoudian (ME-EM) is one of them.
She will join other engineers ages 30 to 45 who are performing exceptional engineering research and technical work in a variety of disciplines; Mahmoudian focuses on robotics with a specialty in marine robotics. The participants, from industry, academia and government, were nominated by fellow engineers or organizations.
Ossama Abdelkhalik (ME-EM/AIM), is the principal investigator on a project that has received a $25,000 research and development contract from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.
Mark Vaughn (ME-EM) is co-PI on the project, “Making small Wave Energy Converters Cost-Effective for Underwater Microgrids Through a 10-Fold Improvement in Year-Round Productivity.”
Gizmag, recently renamed New Atlas, published a story about the seven best ways to protect your airspace from drones. Associate Professor Mo Rastgaar’s (ME-EM) drone catcher was number two on the list.
Research by Brad King (MEEM) and PhD candidate Kurt Terhune (MEEM) has been featured in news outlets around the world including Digital Trends, Microscopy and Analysis, Space Daily, Science Daily, Wireless Design Mag,NanoWerk, e Science News, phys.org and AZO Nano.
Watch a Tiny Space Rocket Work
“Space isn’t the empty vacuum of nothingness many of us assume,” says Kurt Terhune, a mechanical engineering graduate student and the lead author on a new study published in Nanotechnology this week. “Space actually has a small amount of atmosphere that causes drag, solar winds that push satellites off course and space debris that present a constant hazard.”
Continuous Operation of Underwater Robots
It’s a fish! It’s a bird! No…it’s a robot. Inspired by nature, mechanical engineer Nina Mahmoudian is getting underwater robots to move together.
Not only could they travel more easily, but battery charging could be more efficient, too. Charging a robot is the biggest obstacle to underwater missions. That’s why Mahmoudian, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, has grants from both a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award and the Young Investigator Program (YIP) from the Office of Naval Research to develop strategies to address the problem and advance the system.
We want to mimic what we see in nature for mobile sensor networks. —Nina Mahmoudian
Read more and watch the video at Unscripted: Science and Research, by Allison Mills.