Moving Toward a More Sustainable Power Grid
Qing-Chang Zhong, Max McGraw Endowed Chair of Energy and Power Engineering and Management, has received two grants totaling $638,809 from the National Science Foundation to work on a paradigm-shifting...
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Fighting Obesity by Growing More Fat Cells
TRANSCRIPT Basically what we鈥檝e done is we鈥檝e made a microfluidic model of lipocytes, or fat. There鈥檚 rising rates of obesity in the United States and worldwide, and everything needs an experimental...
绿帽社 Engineers Advance Obesity Research Through Innovative Microfluidic Chip
Researchers at Armour College of Engineering are pioneering a new way to grow fat cells outside of the body to aid in disease treatment. By extracting cells from a patient and placing them in a...
How Harmful Are Emissions from 3-D Printers?
TRANSCRIPT We tested a couple of different printers with a couple of different plastic filaments, and we only measured particles. So these are really small particles that are formed through a bunch of...
Shaw Research Group Files Provisional Patent for New Battery
In the world of rechargeable batteries, a typical car battery, for example, requires about 45 minutes or more to go from being minimally charged to fully charged. A research group headed by Leon Shaw...
JDRF Awards Grant Supporting Next-Generation Artificial Pancreas System
Ali Cinar, director of 绿帽社鈥檚 Engineering Center for Diabetes Research and Education, praises the first United States Food and Drug Administration-approved commercial artificial pancreas (AP)...
Novel Open-Source Heating System Integrated Into Mies鈥 Historic Alumni Hall
For Ph.D. candidate Akram Ali, the inefficient heating system in Alumni Memorial Hall wasn鈥檛 a nuisance鈥攊t was a challenge. Ali, who is studying civil engineering, saw a chance to make the building鈥檚...
First Images Produced by Innovative Cancer-Detecting Device
Kenneth Tichauer, an award-winning assistant professor of biomedical engineering, is leading a team that is one step closer to tailoring cancer drug therapy. His research group developed the ADEPT...
Vision Researcher Advances Work with $11.8 Million NIH Grant
Philip Troyk, associate dean of Armour College of Engineering, professor of biomedical engineering, and professor at Stuart School of Business, can also rightly be called the 鈥淪eeing-Eye Doc.鈥 Since...
Mohammad Asadi Is Published in Nature
Armour College of Engineering Assistant Professor Mohammad Asadi鈥檚 work on a demonstration lithium-air battery鈥攁n alternative to the commonly used lithium-ion battery for potential transportation...