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Assistant Professor Hadis Anahideh

Addressing fairness and AI alignment

David Staudacher | Posted on February 09, 2026

Clinical Associate Professor Jonathan Komperda presents at SparkTalks at UIC

Jonathan Komperda discusses ‘improving student job placement’ at SparkTalks

David Staudacher | Posted on February 04, 2026

Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) at UIC

UIC students bring engineering ingenuity to the Chicago Auto Show

David Staudacher | Posted on February 03, 2026

Director of the UIC Energy Resources Center Cliff Haefke (from left) U.S. Rep. Sean Casten, and Dean of Engineering Omolola Eniola-Adefeso, discuss energy activities and issues during a an event hosted at UIC.

U.S. Rep. Sean Casten talks energy with UIC engineering

David Staudacher | Posted on January 27, 2026

MIE Mechatronics Class final December 2025

Learning the elements of mechatronics

David Staudacher | Posted on January 20, 2026

MIE student Mohammadreza Mahmoudian was named a winner of the Student Poster Competition during the 78thannual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics (DFD25) in Houston.

Grad student wins poster competition at Division of Fluid Dynamics conference

David Staudacher | Posted on January 14, 2026

Clinical Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies Jonathan Komperda

MIE’s Jonathan Komperda to present at SparkTalks

David Staudacher | Posted on January 13, 2026

UIC engineering faculty and students with the students from Mark T. Skinner West Elementary School at the First Lego League robotics qualifier host by the St. Ignatius College Prep FIRST robotics team.

UIC supports future engineers at St Ignatius Lego competition

David Staudacher | Posted on January 08, 2026

Clinical Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies Jonathan Komperda

Jon Komperda receives UIC Teaching Recognition Program Award

David Staudacher | Posted on December 15, 2025

mechanical engineering graduate Omar Hasan

December graduate Omar Hasan's aspirations, UIC memories

Posted on December 11, 2025

NASA summer internships available

David Staudacher | Posted on December 03, 2025

University Scholar Subramanian Sankaranarayanan

Subramanian Sankaranarayanan named university scholar

Christy Levy | Posted on December 03, 2025

MIE Graduate Program Virtual Info Sessions

MIE Graduate Program Virtual Info Sessions Set for Dec. 1

Posted on November 24, 2025

Undergraduate students Lizette Salinas, industrial engineering; Luis Gonzalez, computer engineering; and Vanessa Del Real, electrical engineering, won first place and took home a $3,000 prize for the UIC chapter in the Academic Olympiad Competition at the recent Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) National Convention in Philadelphia.

UIC students win the Academic Olympiad Competition at SHPE convention

David Staudacher | Posted on November 18, 2025

UIC PhD candidate Anish Pal (left) receives the Student Member of the Year award from Dr. Sreekant Narumanchi of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory during the recent ASME InterPACK conference in Anaheim, California.

PhD candidate named ASME-EPPD Student Member of the Year

David Staudacher | Posted on November 12, 2025

Professor Alexander Yarin, director of the Multiscale Mechanical and Nanotechnology Lab at UIC

Unusual behavior of polyelectrolyte threads: New phenomena in rheology and a step toward innovative fibers with permanent electrets

David Staudacher | Posted on November 10, 2025

Assistant Professor Azadeh Haghighi, director of the Smarture Lab at UIC

A deeper understanding of multi-laser additive manufacturing systems

David Staudacher | Posted on October 16, 2025

UIC Assistant Professor Carla Tejada

Building a healthy urban food network

David Staudacher | Posted on October 14, 2025

Assistant Professor Jida Huang, Professor Yayue Pan both from Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, and Associate Professor Ning Ai from the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs

UIC receives NASA grant to establish an institute

David Staudacher | Posted on October 10, 2025

Industrial Engineering student Jude Gershon

Undergraduate incorporating industrial engineering into NASA lab research

David Staudacher | Posted on October 08, 2025

Julian Olszewski, an undergraduate student in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering,

Undergraduate gaining engineering research experience at UIC

David Staudacher | Posted on October 06, 2025

Alumna Kelly Karimata graduated from UIC in 2024 with a degree in engineering management.

Keeping the engineering tradition alive in the family

David Staudacher | Posted on October 03, 2025

PhD student Mohammadreza Mahmoudian

PhD student to present at Society of Rheology Meeting

David Staudacher | Posted on October 01, 2025

Four new faculty members join MIE at UIC

Four new faculty members join MIE

David Staudacher | Posted on September 23, 2025

student Enrique Aguila

Getting experience early with guaranteed paid internships

David Staudacher | Posted on September 17, 2025

UIC faculty researchers Craig Foster and Carmen Lilley have received the prestigious Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award for the 2025-26 academic year.

Engineering faculty members receive Fulbright U.S. Scholar Awards

Jenna Kurtzweil | Posted on September 09, 2025

Associate Professor Parisa Mirbod

Associate Professor Parisa Mirbod Honored as JFM 2024 Outstanding Reviewer

David Staudacher | Posted on September 01, 2025

MIE PhD student Hessam Shahbazi

MIE PhD student is first author in Science paper

Posted on August 29, 2025

UIC engineering students with WTTW’s Chicago Tonight host Brandis Friedman

Three engineering students featured on WTTW’s Chicago Tonight

David Staudacher | Posted on August 29, 2025

Associate Professor Myunghee Kim

Associate Professor Myunghee Kim in two editions of Nature

David Staudacher | Posted on August 25, 2025

Professor Subramanian Sankaranarayanan

Professor Subramanian Sankaranarayanan named University Scholar

David Staudacher | Posted on August 19, 2025

Professor Subramanian Sankaranarayanan and members of his research team at UIC

UIC professor using AI and supercomputing for next-generation energy storage

David Staudacher | Posted on August 13, 2025

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies Hamed Hatami-Marbini presenting the keynote lecture during the Minisymposium Advances in Computational Biomechanics and Mechanobiology at the 18th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics in Chicago.

Hatami-Marbini brings eye mechanics research to keynote lecture

David Staudacher | Posted on August 04, 2025

UIC Distinguished Professor Constantine Megaridis

Research focused on improving thermal management devices

David Staudacher | Posted on July 29, 2025

Richard and Loan Hill Professor and UIC Distinguished Professor Alexander Yarin

Professor Yarin receives two Springer Nature Editor of distinction awards

David Staudacher | Posted on July 24, 2025

Associate Professor Mohammad Ghashami

NSF CAREER award funds innovator investigating nanodevice heat control

David Staudacher | Posted on July 22, 2025

Associate Professor Sushant Anand

Could a pocket-sized lab prevent the next pandemic?

David Staudacher | Posted on July 10, 2025

Eight mechanical and industrial engineering faculty members were selected as recipients of 2025 College of Engineering Teaching Award and the College of Engineering Advising award.

MIE Faculty honored for teaching and advising

Posted on July 01, 2025

UIC PhD student Bakir Al-Ameri

PhD student accorded an honorable mention in NSF competition

David Staudacher | Posted on June 24, 2025

UIC Lunabotics team celebrating their first-place win at NASA

UIC team wins first place at NASA Lunabotics competition

David Staudacher | Posted on June 16, 2025

Erica Jung receives NSF CAREER Award to investigate brain reprogramming

David Staudacher | Posted on June 12, 2025

Clinical Assistant Professor Shokouh Pourarian

Shokouh Pourarian selected to join the Teaching Sustainability Initiative

David Staudacher | Posted on June 05, 2025

DuSable Scholars Program Faculty Executive Director and Associate Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Jeremiah Abiade talks to the audience during a recent program event.

Engineering students find support in the DuSable Scholars Program

David Staudacher | Posted on June 02, 2025

Jonathan Komperda receives Harold A. Simon Award for teaching excellence

Jonathan Komperda receives Harold A. Simon Award for teaching excellence

David Staudacher | Posted on May 22, 2025

William Flynn (far right) with his senior design teammates.

Career change leads to new path in mechanical engineering for graduate

David Staudacher | Posted on May 20, 2025

Industrial engineering graduate finds support and herself at UIC

David Staudacher | Posted on May 15, 2025

UIC Dean Lola Eniola-Adefeso talks to students during the recent Engineering Expo.

Students show off engineering prowess at annual expo

David Staudacher | Posted on May 14, 2025

Mars

New NASA grant expands in-space manufacturing research

David Staudacher | Posted on May 06, 2025

Caleb Smith (right) looks over a landing device with his team member Sam “Fish” Hooson.

Graduate headed to NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

David Staudacher | Posted on May 05, 2025

Assistant Professor Hadis Anahideh

Assistant Professor Hadis Anahideh honored by American Educational Research Association

David Staudacher | Posted on April 23, 2025

A team of MIE students recently built and conducted a drop test for a celestial landing device in UIC’s High Bay Lab, a part of their capstone project sponsored by NASA.

NASA project is one of many capstone projects to be featured at Engineering Expo

David Staudacher | Posted on April 21, 2025

Raindrops on a glass surface

Understanding how droplets behave on different surfaces

David Staudacher | Posted on April 08, 2025

Order of Engineer Ring Ceremony

Order of Engineer Ring ceremony set for April 16

Posted on April 07, 2025

AI generated image of water droplets on a leaf

UIC Engineering leads international consortium on greener pesticide spray management

David Staudacher | Posted on April 01, 2025

UIC graduate Nandini Gupta with her team at Inch Two Inch in India.

IE grad becomes CEO of custom furniture business

David Staudacher | Posted on March 25, 2025

Assistant Professor Azadeh Haghighi recently presented “New Era of In-Space Manufacturing: When Artificial Intelligence Meets Physics” during the first SparkTalks of 2025.

Introducing in-space manufacturing at UIC

David Staudacher | Posted on March 17, 2025

UIC’s Hamed Hatami-Marbini, associate professor and director of graduate studies in mechanical and industrial engineering, talks about his research with Sara McKoy, partner relations director at Eversight

New grant supports cornea research

David Staudacher | Posted on March 10, 2025

Assistant Professor Hyungil Kim

Hyungil Kim named program vice chair of HFES technical group

David Staudacher | Posted on March 07, 2025

The NASA MIRO Center for In-Space Manufacturing (CISM-R2): Recycling and Regolith Processing

Internship opportunities at the Center for In-Space Manufacturing

David Staudacher | Posted on March 05, 2025

MIE engineering students working on a project

UIC Engineering: The right choice to build your future department sessions

Posted on February 20, 2025

Clinical Associate Professor Yeow Siow has been named a recipient of UIC’s 2024-2025 Teaching Recognition Program (TRP) Award

Yeow Siow receives UIC Teaching Recognition Program Award

David Staudacher | Posted on February 11, 2025

Professor Lin Li awarded two new grants

David Staudacher | Posted on February 07, 2025

UIC PhD student Mohammad Abu-Mualla

A new tool for designing mechanical objects

David Staudacher | Posted on February 03, 2025

MIE PhD student Abbas Moradi Bilondi in a lab at UIC

Understanding emulsions for everyday use

David Staudacher | Posted on January 23, 2025

MIE Assistant Professor Azadeh Haghighi

Haghighi to be featured at SparkTalks on Jan. 23

David Staudacher | Posted on January 09, 2025

UIC PHD student Chris Carducci wins Best Poster Award at ASME conference for ice adhesion research.JPG

PhD student wins Best Poster Award at ASME conference for ice adhesion research

David Staudacher | Posted on January 07, 2025

Valeria Ovalle Ocampo, an MIE master’s program alum at UIC

Master's program prepares industrial engineering graduate for working world

David Staudacher | Posted on December 20, 2024

Mechanical and industrial engineering students raced their mouse trap vehicles with autonomous braking systems for their ME 250 final projects this semester.

Students race autonomous vehicles for final project

David Staudacher | Posted on December 12, 2024

Elmira Taheri recently won the APS Student Poster Award during the 77th annual meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics.

PhD candidate wins APS Student Poster Award

David Staudacher | Posted on December 10, 2024

UIC graduate Jai Mehta is at the center of research and development at Furno Materials, Inc.

UIC graduate leading charge to reduce global emissions in cement

David Staudacher | Posted on December 09, 2024

UIC Industrial engineering student Nathan Batres

Research opportunity changes life trajectory for undergrad

David Staudacher | Posted on November 25, 2024

Debjit Pal (from left), Lucy Shi, Aritra Banerjee, Carmen Lilley and Igor Paprotny in the Nanotechnology Core Facility.

UIC joins semiconductor workforce development center meeting national demand

Rob Mitchum | Posted on November 19, 2024

MIE alumnus and advisory board member Brad Mueller

Industry experts bring real-life experience to the classroom

David Staudacher | Posted on November 14, 2024

Mechanical and Industrial Engineering faculty members Kenneth Brezinsky (from left), Constantine Megaridis, Alexander Yarin, and Reza Shahbazian-Yassar received endowed professorships during a recent investiture ceremony at UIC.

Four MIE faculty members receive professorships

David Staudacher | Posted on October 17, 2024

Yayue Pan, associate professor of mechanical and industrial engineering (MIE) at UIC

UIC researchers awarded $4.65 million NASA grant to open in-space manufacturing research center

David Staudacher | Posted on October 07, 2024

Hardik Miyani

MEE alum gives back to international students

David Staudacher | Posted on September 30, 2024

UIC Distinguished Professor Alexander Yarin

UIC engineers’ invention improves dental safety

David Staudacher | Posted on August 31, 2024

MIE associate professor Mohammad Ghashami

New faculty member brings nanoscience expertise to the classroom, lab

David Staudacher | Posted on August 01, 2024

Cleanups after oil spills usually focus on the oil slick on the water’s surface. But new research from UIC shows some oil may remain suspended in the water.

How pollution may remain in water after oil spill cleanups

Emily Stone | Posted on July 18, 2024

MIE Associate Professor Yayue Pan was recently awarded the Chao and Trigger Young Manufacturing Engineer Award from the ASME Manufacturing Engineering Division

Yayue Pan receives Chao and Trigger Young Manufacturing Engineer Award

David Staudacher | Posted on July 15, 2024

UIC Lunabotics team at NASA competition

UIC students impress judges at NASA Lunabotics competition

David Staudacher | Posted on July 09, 2024

Clinical Associate Professor Yeow Siow

Clinical Associate Professor Yeow Siow receives Excellence in Teaching award

David Staudacher | Posted on July 01, 2024

Professor Kenneth Brezinsky

Professor Brezinsky named a University Scholar

David Staudacher | Posted on July 01, 2024

UIC Distinguished Professor Alexander Yarin monograph

Professor Yarin releases 'Materials and Electro-mechanical and Biomedical Devices Based on Nanofibers' monograph

David Staudacher | Posted on June 21, 2024

UIC PhD candidate Michael Jacobson

PhD student named Illinois Student Veteran of the Year

David Staudacher | Posted on June 10, 2024

UIC Distinguished Professor Alexander Yarin recently co-organized the Drops, Jets and Films workshop at the International Centre for Mechanical Studies in Udine, Italy.

Yarin co-hosts international workshop

David Staudacher | Posted on June 05, 2024

Hadis Anahideh, assistant professor and director of the OPLEX Lab at UIC

Enhancing transparency and trust in predictive analytics for education

David Staudacher | Posted on May 17, 2024

Associate Professor Parisa Mirbod

Advancing elasto-inertial focusing for enhanced control in microfluidic devices

David Staudacher | Posted on May 13, 2024

Assistant Professor Azadeh Haghighi is one of only 12 university academics worldwide to be named a 2024 Susan Smyth Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers

Professor Haghighi receives 2024 Susan Smyth Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award

Posted on May 13, 2024

A student wears a VR Headset his team made for $4 during the annual engineering expo

Students show off ingenuity at expo

David Staudacher | Posted on May 07, 2024

UIC College of Engineering Assistant Professor Pranav Bhounsule, left, and student Subramanian Ramasamy. (Photo: Jim Young/UIC Engineering)

UIC researchers advance technologies to power unmanned vehicles

Rob Mitchum | Posted on May 06, 2024

rendering of the gantry and crane

Undergrads set to display real-world laboratory research at expo

David Staudacher | Posted on April 16, 2024

Parisa Mirbod research image

A deeper understanding of flow dynamics in particle-laden fluids

David Staudacher | Posted on April 11, 2024

New program aimed at helping low-income, high-achieving students

David Staudacher | Posted on March 27, 2024

Srikar Raman, who earned his PhD in mechanical engineering from UIC in 2010, launched the healthcare company Tvaster Genkalp in 2021

Alumni Spotlight: New company aims for early cancer detection

David Staudacher | Posted on March 11, 2024

UIC Assistant Professor Hyungil Kim is investigating how people interact with urban robots.

New research focused on people interacting with urban robots

David Staudacher | Posted on March 04, 2024

Shokouh Pourarian, mechanical and industrial engineering clinical assistant professor

New faculty member brings deep commitment to students’ growth

David Staudacher | Posted on February 23, 2024

An AI-generated image of oil drops at water-air interface from MIE Associate Professor Sushant Anand's laboratory.

Paper demonstrates new method for nanoscale emulsions

David Staudacher | Posted on February 22, 2024

University of Illinois Chicago College of Engineering BME Tolou Shokuhfar (L) and MIE Alex Yarin in the STEM (ARM) room.

Unveiling the secrets of plastic biodegradation

Posted on February 15, 2024

Myunghee Kim, an assistant professor at the University of Illinois Chicago Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, has received the National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award

Myunghee Kim receives NSF CAREER award to investigate robotic prosthetic technology

David Staudacher | Posted on February 13, 2024