Engineering Schools
FSU researchers develop next-generation superconduct-ing cables
Researchers at Florida State University’s Center for Advanced Power Systems, in collaboration with Colorado-based Advanced Conductor Technologies, have demonstrated a new, ready-to-use superconducting cable system
UIUC researcher leads flying taxi research effort with a $6M NASA grant
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign mechanical science and engineering professor Naira Hovakimyan heads the newly established Center for Autonomous Vehicles in Air Transportation Engineering (AVIATE)
NJIT and City of Newark receive grant to pursue smart port concept
The regional coalition is among 60 projects selected as finalists for up to $100 million in funding from the U.S. Economic Development Administration’s Build Back Better Regional Challenge
RISC chip innovators receive the 2022 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering
Their innovation has stimulated the creation of numerous low-power portable devices, as about 99 percent of all new computer chips use the RISC architecture.
Pitt engineers designing a more sustainable electric vehicle
They aim to replace the rare earth metals used in permanent magnets in the electric motors
SMU professor awarded NSF grant for models to better evacuate natural disasters like hurricanes
He will investigate integrated evacuation planning and disaster preparedness models that offer relief to evacuees in a more robust, predictive, timely, and cost-effective manner
UC Riverside engineers create activated carbon from corn stover that filters 98 percent of a pollutant from water
They’ve come up with an energy-efficient way to put corn wastes back into the economy by transforming it into activated carbon for use in water treatment.
Rensselaer researchers to build biosensor capable of measuring critical nutrients in water
Engineers are teaming up with a metal-breathing bacterium to try to dramatically improve biosensors for aquatic ecosystems
Missouri S&T wins grant for high-resolution 4-D X-ray CT scanner
Researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology who study materials will soon have a highly sophisticated scanning tool available to help them
Bucknell University gets $2-million grant to create a new engineering education model
The National Science Foundation awarded it so faculty can incorporate societal problems and the interdisciplinary approach they demand into the department’s curriculum