The world needs engineers with vision.
At URI’s College of Engineering, you’ll find opportunities to work alongside visionary researchers developing technologies that improve lives, expand knowledge, and explore new frontiers.
Our students are central to this work. Guided by faculty mentors, they’re expanding access to clean water in rural communities, creating advanced sensors for robotic systems, and engineering biomedical technologies to detect and treat disease. URI engineers intern and perform research around the globe, collaborating on sustainable energy projects, innovating fuel-efficient transportation, and tackling challenges that transcend borders.
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Engineering professor Weiwei Jia receives NSF CAREER Award to advance cloud computing applications, systems - University of Rhode Island assistant professor Weiwei Jia was recently awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for his project “Redefining Memory Virtualization in Clouds” to research how to substantially improve the performance and cost-efficiency of next-generation cloud computing applications and systems.
NSF CAREER Award for assistive and rehabilitative robotics research - Professor Reza Abiri’s work aims to help people with severe motor impairment to interact with their environment naturally and independently
Graduate took on challenge of an engineering program and a full-time job - After high school, David O’Connor realized that if he wanted to pursue his dream of becoming an engineer, he had to do it on his own. The college had to be affordable and close to work because he would need to not only pay tuition, but all living expenses too. Balancing an engineering program and […]
Graduate earns a (SMART) Department of Defense scholarship to pursue a Ph.D. - As a child, Gianni Smith always possessed a curiosity for how things worked. Various electronics, remote control cars, household appliances, it didn’t matter. Perhaps that is why he pursued an electrical engineering degree. But in the end, he got so much more. Smith, from Pawtucket, Rhode Island, graduated this May with degrees in electrical engineering […]
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Heather gained early industry experience through a recurring summer internship with a RI-based medical manufacturing company. She then spent her fourth year abroad in Germany.
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