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Jul 06, 2020

SPIRAL Receives 2 Best Paper Awards at PETRA

Two papers from SPIRAL researchers received best paper awards at PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA) conference.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Jul 06, 2020

PhD Student Rashida Nayeem finalist for Best Paper Award in Cognitive Robotics at The International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2020

EE PhD student Rashida Nayeem, advised by Prof. Dagmar Sternad, was a finalist for the Best Paper Award in Cognitive Robotics at the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation for her paper “Transient Behavior and Predictability in Manipulating Complex Objects.”

Electrical & Computer Engineering

photo of innovative respiratory device

Jun 25, 2020

Bioengineers Develop Innovative Respiratory-Assist Device as Alternative to Ventilator

BioE alumnus Craig Smallwood, PhD’18, invented a respiratory-assist device as an alternative to a ventilator for low-resource environments. BioE Professor and Chair Lee Makowski, in collaboration with physicians at Korle Bu Hospital in Ghana, has made the first few of these devices available for use on patients suffering from respiratory distress.

Bioengineering

student working in lab on monitor

Jun 11, 2020

Making Her Mark

Her research has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. She also had an internship at Sanofi and is part of the Experiential PhD program.

May 13, 2020

Phd Student Zhao Chen Awarded Thornton Tomasetti Student Innovation Fellowship

CEE PhD student Zhao Chen was awarded a 2020 Thornton Tomasetti Student Innovation Fellowship for his exceptional submittal for innovative research to investigate “Efficient Seismic Meta-modeling of Highly Nonlinear Structures with Scarce Data”.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Jessica Faust

Apr 27, 2020

Faust Received the Outstanding Graduate Student Award for Research

Mechanical Engineering student Jessica Faust, PhD’20, was awarded the Outstanding Graduate Student Award for Research.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

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Apr 13, 2020

Congratulations RISE:2020 Winners

Congratulations to our engineering students who won awards at the RISE:2020 Research, Innovation and Scholarship Expo!

Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

penguins

Feb 13, 2020

Using Drones to Monitor Penguin Populations

Computer Engineering PhD students Yang Liu and Vikrant Shah traveled to Antarctica to count the dwindling population of chinstrap penguins with drones.

Electrical & Computer Engineering