04-23-2024

[Award]

Dr. Zheng received both the Morgan-Worcester Distinguished Instructorship – Outstanding Advising and Russell M. Searle Instructorship – Outstanding Teaching awards.

04-23-2024

[Award]

Congratulations to Patrick for receiving the TA of the Year award.

04-02-2024

[Award]

Congratulations to Patrick and Jack for receiving the National Academy of Inventors award.

02-28-2024

[Activity]

Dr. Yuxiang Liu and Dr. Zheng hosted students from Quinsigamond Community College at WPI for lectures, lab tours, and hands-on activities about advanced fiber optic sensing, medical device innovation, and smart healthcare.

02-15-2024

[Award]

WPI MQP students in collaboration with Kyoto University of Advanced Science won the Best Paper Award at the AROB-ISBC-SWARM2024 conference. Crane C, Johannessen N, Kleiman J, Page C, Powell A, Zheng Y, Johnson S, Nisar S, “Design and Kinematic Evaluation of a 5-DoF Robotic Surgical Instrument.”

12-08-2023

[Activity]

ES2501 Introduction to Static Systems students conducted the free body diagram analysis on the exercise machines at WPI Sports & Recreation Center.

11-03-2023

[Funding]

MedMaIn received funding from Physical Sciences Inc. through WPI PracticePoint to conduct animal studies on a multimodal optical probe for epidural guidance.

10-16-2023

[Funding]

MedMaIn received funding from Takeda Pharmaceutical Company through WPI PracticePoint.

09-19-2023

[Award]

Dr. Zheng received the Excellence in Research Award from the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering.

07-01-2023

[Award]

Dr. Zheng serves as the Chair of the Biomanufacturing Technical Committee, ASME Manufacturing Engineering Division.

05-18-2023

[Funding]

MedMaIn in collaboration with University of Michigan and VA Ann Arbor received funding from Renal Research Institute to develop free-hand 3D ultrasound imaging for vascular access.

04-27-2023

[Activity]

MedMaIn team and ME 593 students visited C&C Metals Engineering.

12-19-2022

[Activity]

MedMaIn team holiday celebration with all-you-can-eat hot pot.

11-10-2022

[Award]

Dr. Zheng together with Dr. Yuxiang Liu won the 1st Place Kalenian Award with funding of $15,000 for the development of the Smart Catheter for stroke treatment.

08-09-2022

[Funding]

NIH/NHLBI awarded $460,088 to our project, “Smart Aspiration Catheter Based on Fiber Optic Pressure Sensing for Mechanical
Thrombectomy in Stroke” (PI Zheng, Multi-PI Liu, Co-I Savastano at UCSF).

06-30-2022

[Award]

Dr. Zheng received the Journal of Manufacturing Processes Outstanding Reviewer Award from SME.

06-29-2022

[Award]

Our poster, “Grinding Wheel Size Effect on Material Removal Rate in Atherectomy” (Li X, Yang J, Chernjavsky P, Zheng Y), received the Best Poster Award at the 2022 International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference (MSEC).

06-10-2022

[Award]

Dr. Zheng and colleagues received the 1st Place Best Paper Award from the New Engineering Educators Division Awards Committee for their ASEE paper, “Compensatory Effects of Flipped Learning for Experienced and New Faculty” (Wodin-Schwartz S, LeChasseur K, Narra S, Zheng Y, Powell A).

04-22-2022

[Award]

Our MQP, “A Portable Teleoperated Robot for Ultrasound Diagnostic Imaging” (Valsamis J, Gobran M, Gao T, Zhang Z, Zheng Y), received the 2nd Place ME MQP Award.

04-16-2022

[Award]

Dr. Zheng received the James Nichols Heald Research Award to pursue creative and promising research, mechanical engineering in character, that has likely relevance and prospects for subsequent support by selective American manufacturing enterprises.

12-03-2021

[Activity]

Brianna and her Women’s Research and Mentorship Program (WRAMP) team presented at a poster session.

11-30-2021

[Funding]

In collaboration with UNandUP, LLC., our project, “Magnetic Rotational Exploratory Platform for Coronary Lesions” (PI Creighton F, Co-I Zheng Y) was funded by NIH/NHLBI.

10-01-2021

[Funding]

In collaboration with UMass Diabetes Center of Excellence, we received a seed grant for the project, “Isolated Single Islet Studies to Define the Factors Underlying the Heterogeneity of Islet and Peri-Islet Lymphocytic Infiltration in Human Type 1 Diabetes” (UMass PI Harlan D, WPI PI Zheng Y, UMass Co-Is Kent S, Redick S).

08-25-2021

[Award]

Brianna Raphino received WPI Presidential Fellowship.

08-25-2021

[Award]

Patrick Chernjavsky received the William B. Smith Fellowship.

08-17-2021

[Personnel]

Welcome Patrick Chernjavsky joining MedMaIn as a PhD student.

08-17-2021

[Personnel]

Welcome Rohit Dey joining MedMaIn as a PhD student.

08-17-2021

[Award]

Brianna Raphino is awarded a GEM Fellowship.

08-01-2021

[Funding]

In collaboration with Saint-Gobain, MedMaIn received the NSF Industry-Academia Collaboration Initiation Grant.

07-01-2021

[Award]

Dr. Zheng serves as the Vice Chair of the Biomanufacturing Technical Committee, ASME Manufacturing Engineering Division.

05-24-2021

[Personnel]

Welcome Jiaqi Yang joining MedMaIn as a PhD student.

04-01-2021

[Funding]

MedMaIn received a second-year sub-award from VA Merit Review Project, “Point of Care Elastographic Sonoangiography (eSA)” (PI Weitzel W, Co-I Zheng).

02-02-2021

[Funding]

We received a gift-in-kind donation of a brand new CR5 industrial collaborative robot from DOBOT to conduct research in robot-assisted medical imaging and manufacturing.

08-31-2020

[Personnel]

Welcome Brianna Raphino joining MedMaIn as a PhD student.

08-31-2020

[Funding]

NIH funded our project, “Robotic Lung Ultrasound for Triage of Covid-19 Patients in a Resource-Limited Environment” (PI Zhang H, Co-I Zheng).

03-13-2020

[Funding]

MedMaIn received a sub-award from VA Merit Review Project, “Point of Care Elastographic Sonoangiography (eSA)” (PI Weitzel W, Co-I Zheng).

11-27-2019

[Funding]

In collaboration with Profs. Songbai Ji and Yuxiang Liu, MedMaIn received the WPI Transformative Research and Innovation, Accelerating Discovery Grant for “Multi-Scale Mechanical Characterization and Modeling of the Brain for Injury Prevention.”

11-13-2019

[Funding]

We received a research grant from the University of Massachusetts Medical School to develop the “Micro Punch for Islet Excision from Pancreas Slices.”

08-15-2019

[Activity]

Welcome to the Medical and Manufacturing Innovation (MedMaIn) Lab!