Student Research News
Aug 25, 2017
Engineering for People
Kritika Singh, BS, Bioengineering, 2020—As a high school sophomore in Alexandria, Virginia, Kritika Singh, E’20, bioengineering, had an experience that changed the course of her life. A student at the prestigious Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Singh applied for and received a summer internship in Boston, where she worked for Acetylon Pharmaceuticals. […]
Aug 18, 2017
Research and Roman Ruins: ChE Undergrad Emma Milloway Travels to Tarragona, Spain
ChE student Emma Milloway, E'21, spent her first study abroad on a Research Exchange Program at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili studying the effects that heavy metals have on the growth of micro algae.
Aug 17, 2017
International Research Exchange Program Leads to Summer in Spain for ChE Undergrad
ChE student Daniel Rourke, E'19, spent two months studying at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Spain as part of the ChE Exchange Program.
Aug 15, 2017
Academic Involvement and Interdisciplinary Research
Meryem Pehlivaner, PhD, Chemical Engineering, 2018— A fourth-year PhD student in the Ekenseair Group, Meryem Pehlivaner develops innovative materials for a variety of applications, including biomedical, environmental, and industrial. Most recently, Pehlivaner worked on a project where she created an electrode with an interdisciplinary team from Cornell University. This cutting-edge research led to a story […]
Aug 14, 2017
Underwater Robot Examines Ice in Antarctic Ocean
An international crew of scientists, including computer engineering PhD student Alek Razdan, who works with ECE/MIE Professor Hanumant Singh, recently returned from a two-month expedition to the Antarctic Ocean where they launched the Jaguar, an autonomous underwater vehicle, to examine the ice in winter months.
Aug 02, 2017
The Webster Group Publishes Review Article in Advanced Functional Materials
ChE Professor & Chair Thomas Webster and PhD students Mian Wang, Gujie Mi, Di Shi, Nicole Bassous and alumnus Daniel Hickey published the review article “Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials for Improving Neural Interfaces” in the journal Advanced Functional Materials.
Jul 28, 2017
IE Student's research presented in the 9th Health and Humanitarian Logistics Conference
Industrial Engineering students Alyssa Caganda, BS'19 & Tina Rezvanian, PhD'18 had their work with Professor Ozlem Ergun presented at the Conference on Health & Humanitarian Logistics.
Jul 27, 2017
MIE PhD Students Invent New System to Analyze Water
MIE PhD students Jianfeng Sun, Ran Ran, and undergraduate student Derek Tran have created a new microscope analyzer to test water for contaminants quicker than conventional methods. More than 844 million people around the globe lack access to clean water. One of the challenges is that bacteria from rivers can flow into groundwater sources, polluting […]