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Recent Articles

Aerospace: Improving flight stability through collaborative research

Aerospace: Improving flight stability through collaborative research

Vrishank Raghav, associate professor of aerospace engineering, is part of a three-year, $600,000 Defense Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (DEPSCoR) grant to better understand how bio-inspired surface texturing of aircraft wings can ensure smooth flight.

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Biosystems: Researchers reimagine controlled environment agriculture

Biosystems: Researchers reimagine controlled environment agriculture

While controlled environment agriculture (CEA) can potentially improve access to local, nutritious fruits and vegetables on a yearly basis, the greenhouse gas emissions associated with greenhouse production is five times higher than field-grown produce.

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Chemical: Biomedical research is making a difference in patient outcomes

Chemical: Biomedical research is making a difference in patient outcomes

Researchers in the Department of Chemical Engineering are delving into some of the world’s most challenging health issues.

With the goal of improving patient outcomes through personalized medicine and expanding access to medical advances to the developing world, they are backed by some of the biggest funding agencies in the industry.

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Civil and Environmental: Exploring subsurface hydrogen storage to reduce CO₂ emissions

Civil and Environmental: Exploring subsurface hydrogen storage to reduce CO₂ emissions

Lauren Beckingham, W. Allen and Martha Reed Associate Professor of civil and environmental engineering, received her latest Early Career honor from the Department of Energy (DOE), which awarded $749,999 toward her research into subsurface hydrogen storage.

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Computer Science and Software: Research aims to address software security weaknesses

Computer Science and Software: Research aims to address software security weaknesses

Akond Rahman, assistant professor in computer science and software engineering, was awarded two National Science Foundation (NSF) awards as lead principal investigator totaling $332,000 in grant funding.

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Industrial and Systems: ICAMS awarded $8.9M for smart manufacturing initiatives

Industrial and Systems: ICAMS awarded $8.9M for smart manufacturing initiatives

The adoption of Smart Manufacturing is fast becoming a necessity for small- and medium-sized manufacturers (SMMs) looking to stay competitive in the Industry 4.0 age. For those SMMs in the national security ecosystem, it’s no longer a suggestion — it’s a requirement. Enter, once again, the Interdisciplinary Center for Advanced […]

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Electrical and Computer: Utilizing machine learning to improve data collection

Electrical and Computer: Utilizing machine learning to improve data collection

Fresh data is vital because it’s timely. Important data is vital too because it’s necessary for quick decision-making. Can machines learn to provide both sets of data simultaneously? Yin Sun, associate professor in electrical and computer engineering, believes they can.

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Materials: Developing innovative methods for material response modification

Materials: Developing innovative methods for material response modification

The National Science Foundation recently awarded Siyuan Dai, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, $720,000 for a CAREER project aimed at developing innovative methods for material response modification benefitting a variety of applications from computer science to biomedicine.

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Mechanical: Achieving a cleaner future for the transportation sector

Mechanical: Achieving a cleaner future for the transportation sector

Mitigating the environmental impact of meeting the world’s rapidly increasing transportation energy demands is a problem.The National Science Foundation (NSF) thinks Nick Tsolas may have a solution.

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Wireless: Advancing fundamental understandings of wireless hierarchical federated learning

Wireless: Advancing fundamental understandings of wireless hierarchical federated learning

Xiaowen Gong, associate professor in electrical and computer engineering, recently earned a five-year, $500,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award for his project, “Towards Efficient and Fast Hierarchical Federated Learning in Heterogeneous Wireless Edge Networks.” “I’m so humbled to receive this honor,” said Gong, who specializes in wireless engineering. “There […]

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