News
Oct 30, 2020
Fu Receives Second Konica Minolta Gift Award
ECE/Khoury Professor Yun “Raymond” Fu’s received the second $100k Gift from Konica Minolta which will support his research on generic video understanding.
Oct 26, 2020
Improving the Cybersecurity of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
ECE Assistant Professor Xiaolin Xu, in collaboration with Houbing Song at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and Jiawei Yuan at UMass Dartmouth, was awarded a $500K NSF grant for “Bolstering UAV Cybersecurity Education through Curriculum Development with Hands-on Laboratory Framework”.
Oct 22, 2020
Engineering Students published and presented at the 2020 ASEE-NE Virtual Conference
Engineering students, under the supervision of Teaching Professor Bala Maheswaran, published and presented five papers at the American Society of Engineering Education–Northeast Section Virtual Conference. The paper on “OSCILLUS: Harnessing Wave Energy” won first place.
Oct 16, 2020
COE Faculty Awarded Seed Funding in Collaboration with University of Maine
BioE Assistant Professors Jiahe Li and Mingyang Lu, ECE Professor & Chair Srinivas Tadigadapa, ECE Assistant Professors Sarah Ostadabbas and Xue “Shelley” Lin, and ECE Associate Research Scientist Ataur Katebi were among the faculty chosen for five competitive collaborative research projects with the University of Maine in the areas of artificial intelligence, earth and climate sciences, health and life sciences, manufacturing, and marine sciences.
Oct 08, 2020
Transferring Energy Wirelessly to Power Devices
ECE Professor Kaushik Chowdhury and Research Assistant Professor Yousof Naderi were awarded a patent for “Distributed wireless charging system and method.”
Oct 07, 2020
Using Robots for Testing Medical Protective Equipment
During the heights of the COVID-19 pandemic, ECE Associate Professor Taskin Padir and his research team, including electrical engineering co-op students, created a method to use robotic technology to assist manufacturers in the testing of surgical masks and gowns, which otherwise would have been shipped to testing facilities that could take months for results.
Oct 07, 2020
Interfacing Photonics with Artificial Intelligence
MIE & ECE Associate Professor Yongmin Liu published an invited review article in Nature Photonics about deep learning for the design of photonic structures.
Oct 01, 2020
Assuring that Self-Driving Cars are Accessible to Those with Disabilities
ECE Assistant Professor Xue “Shelley” Lin is working with the algorithms in self-driving vehicles to ensure that they will be accessible to those with disabilities.