News
Jan 09, 2026
Showcasing Next-Generation Flexible and Hybrid Electronics Manufacturing with AI and Digital Twins at FLEX 2026
ECE Assistant Professor Benyamin Davaji, alongside Haiyang Yun, PhD’28, electrical engineering, will instruct a professional course titled “Digital Twins for Printed Electronics: How Can AI Learn FHE Printing” at FLEX 2026, the premier international conference for Flexible and Hybrid Electronics (FHE), taking place in Phoenix, Arizona on February 24, 2026.
Jan 09, 2026
How Climate Disasters Impact Local Government Funding
By analyzing the intersection of finance and engineering, CEE Distinguished Professor Auroop Ganguly and Aayushi Mishra, PhD’28, interdisciplinary engineering, illustrate how climate risks threaten local tax bases while offering innovative bond-based strategies to protect infrastructure.
Jan 08, 2026
How Mining Waste and Microwave Technology Could Solve the Rare Earth Shortage
ChE/COS Assistant Professor Damilola Daramola developed a method using chemical treatments and microwave reactors to extract rare earth elements from coal tailings two to three times more efficiently than standard approaches.
Jan 08, 2026
Predicting the Next Move with the RHYTHM AI Tool for Disaster Response
CEE Associate Professor Qi “Ryan” Wang and his team developed RHYTHM, an AI tool that leverages large language models to accurately forecast human movement for urban planning and disaster response.
Jan 08, 2026
The Future of Space Computing and the Hurdles for Orbital AI
Tech giants like Google, SpaceX, and Blue Origin are racing to develop orbital AI data centers to bypass terrestrial energy and land constraints, though ECE Professor & Associate Dean for Research Josep Jornet warns that significant hurdles regarding power, radiation, and heat dissipation must be solved before these systems become operational.
Jan 08, 2026
Tracking the 8,500 km Journey of Petroplastic Pollutants
ChE Assistant Professor Bryan James is the lead author of a new study on “Long-range transport of oil by marine plastic debris: Evidence from an 8500 km journey,” which was published in Environmental Science & Technology.
Jan 08, 2026
Patent for Automated Assessment of Cracks Using LIDAR and Camera Data
CEE University Distinguished and CDM Smith Professor Jerry Hajjar was awarded a patent for “Automated assessment of cracks using LIDAR and camera data.”
Jan 06, 2026
Niedre Selected as SPIE Fellow
COE Distinguished Professor and Associate Dean of PhD Education Mark Niedre was selected as a fellow of the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE).