Stories From Jul 2021
Chancellor’s Innovation Fund catalyzes six promising projects
This year’s Chancellor's Innovation Fund projects could reshape medicine, immunotherapies, consumer packaging, stealth jets and solar-energy cells.
Computer science faculty members to lead institute focused on artificial intelligence and the future of education
A new NSF-funded institute will focus on creating AI tools to help people learn.
Student finds family and high-flying fulfillment in BAE
Enrique Pena Martinez explored the use of unoccupied aerial systems (UAS) technology to help improve agriculture data collection and planning.
The Dickey Group goes digital with virtual lab tour
Michael Dickey, Camille and Henry Dreyfus Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, used a DELTA Express Grant to create an immersive virtual tour of his lab to help students and scholars navigate the space.
Why can’t we be friends? Cementing the relationship between architects and engineers
An architecture course and civil engineering course taught together as an interdisciplinary project provide lessons of structure, durability and cooperation between disciplines.
Researchers demonstrate technique for recycling nanowires in electronics
The work is a step toward more sustainable electronics.
Meet the newest startups heading to the Andrews Launch Accelerator
Four of the five selected startups have ties to the College of Engineering.
Witherspoon Graduate Fellowship assists BME student in expanding research
Aryssa Simpson, a second-year graduate student in biomedical engineering, plans to use the fellowship support to apply for conferences where she hopes to present her research.
Four with ties to College appointed to Board of Trustees
Student Body President McKenzy Heavlin, who is majoring in electrical engineering, was also appointed to a one-year term.
Engineering Miller Fellow restoring work-life balance with Home Office Solutions
Billy Dickinson, MAE '21, was awarded a Miller Fellowship to support his start-up Home Office Solutions, which aims to provide better work-from-home spaces.