A URI team featuring Engineering Professor Kunal Mankodiya will establish a Neuro-Learning Center that will include cutting-edge equipment to study the relationship between brain activity and behavior, brain mapping, and neuroplasticity.
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A URI graduate student’s paper was recently awarded “Best Student Paper Finalist” for the 2023 Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics conference. Emadodin Jandaghi and Xiaotian Chen’s work was overseen by Associate Professor and Advisor Chengzhi Yuan. As the name suggests, soft robotics involves using flexible materials in an increasingly wide variety of uses, from medical applications to […]
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Mehrshad Amini, Assistant Professor, CVE/OCE Dr. Mehrshad Amini will join the University of Rhode Island in Fall 2023 as an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Department of Ocean Engineering. He completed his Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Pennsylvania State University in 2021. […]
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As companies have formed and flourished in Rhode Island’s blue economy, the demand for URI’s talented ocean engineering students has never been greater. Companies have also increasingly turned to URI for support with research and product development needs.
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Icebergs can impact the environment by affecting sea-level rise and local ecosystems, damage offshore equipment and disrupt marine transportation. URI researchers are developing multi-robot systems to study icebergs above and below the surface.
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Phil Parisi came to URI to pursue a master’s degree in ocean engineering so that he could work with autonomous systems and interact with nature. In his first deep-sea expedition to the Puerto Rico Trench, he got to do both.
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Faculty and students in URI’s College of Engineering are partnering with federal defense and private industries to advance naval technology and keep the U.S. submarine fleet ahead of those from other countries.
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When the National Institute for Undersea Vehicle Technology was formed in 2017 as a partnership of URI, UConn and General Dynamics Electric Boat, it created collaborative opportunities in applied research, technology transition and workforce development.
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At the URI College of Engineering, there are loads of highly motivated students. One of the finest examples is Raymond Turrisi, who will graduate from URI this spring with dual degrees in mechanical engineering and computer science, and minors in mathematics and robotics.
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URI College of Engineering Dean Anthony Marchese gave a presentation to the engineering faculty on funding that is available through the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) for developing new ways to generate, store and use energy. ARPA-E projects have the potential to improve economic prosperity, national security and the environment. Marchese spoke about the streamlined award process […]
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Imagine soft robotic systems that can be used after a natural disaster to locate survivors or enter the places that search and rescue teams can’t reach.
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Assistant Professor Reza Abiri is researching non-invasive ways to use technology, including sensors, artificial intelligence and connected devices, to help physically disabled people become more independent.
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Brennan Phillips, assistant professor of ocean engineering at URI, was a featured guest on the Ocean News & Technology magazine podcast. He spoke about his research on devices used for deep-sea ocean exploration.
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David Cipoletta earned three bachelor’s degrees from URI in 2014 in electrical engineering, computer engineering and computer science. Just a few years later, he added a master’s degree in electrical engineering from URI and became a co-founder of a successful technology company in Boston.
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The discovery of sharks living in an active underwater volcano in the Pacific Ocean by Brennan Phillips, an assistant professor of ocean engineering at URI, was the subject of a documentary on National Geographic.
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Assistant Professor of Ocean Engineering Brennan Phillips feels right at home when conducting research in the ocean.
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The largest construction project in University history, The Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering opened its doors this fall, bringing all the engineering disciplines together in a space that actively supports hands-on, interdisciplinary research and defies departmental silos.
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URI ocean engineering professor Brennan Phillips has developed a deep-sea video system that is being used to record sharks in some of the most remote locations of the ocean.
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Working for a startup robotics company in France, Ian McElroy, an alumnus of URI’s International Engineering Program, is using technology to make parking at airports a stress-free experience. Ian earned bachelor’s degrees from URI in ocean engineering and French last spring.
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Brennan Phillips, URI assistant professor of ocean engineering, and two of his students, tested soft grippers and other research equipment on an expedition off the coast of Hawaii. The equipment will be used to study the world’s most delicate deep-sea species.
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URI Assistant Professor Paolo Stegagno is collaborating with other engineering professors at URI and a team of scientists from other colleges to develop and deploy high-tech tools to understand where, when, and how cyanobacterial blooms form.
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Associate Professor Mechanical, Industrial and Systems Engineering 401.874.9067 cyuan@uri.edu Office Location: Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering 484 Lab: Intelligent Control and Robotics Laboratory Recent Grants1 Grant 8/24/2022. Co-PI. National Science Foundation. “Advancing underwater robots in Complex environments.” 8/24/2022. Co-PI. National Science Foundation. “Advancing underwater robots in Complex environments.” 8/24/2022. Co-PI. National Science Foundation. “Advancing underwater […]
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Associate Professor Ocean Engineering 401.874.6879 loravu@uri.edu Office Location: Sheets 213, Narragansett Bay Campus Lab: Ocean Platforms, Experiments, and Research in Acoustics Laboratory Recent Grants1 Grant 1/17/2023. PI. Office of Naval Research. “Acoustic Receiving at Long Ranges using Mobile Platforms.” 12/29/2021. PI. Office of Naval Research. “Acoustic Receiving at Long Ranges using Mobile Platforms.” 4/16/2021. PI. […]
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Assistant Professor Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering 401.874.5814 pstegagno@uri.edu Office Location: Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering 486 Lab: Intelligent Control and Robotics Laboratory Recent Grants1 Grant 6/14/2023. PI. Dartmouth College “RII Track-2 FEC: Computational Methods and Autonomous Robotics Systems for Modeling and predicting Harmful Cyanobacterial Blooms.” 9/23/2022. Co-PI. “Vision-Based Detection of Bridge Damage Captured by […]
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Associate Professor Ocean Engineering (limited) and Oceanography 401.874.6115 croman2@uri.edu Office Location: Horn 111, Narragansett Bay Campus Recent Grants1 Grant 9/11/2020. Co-PI. Naval Undersea Warfare Center. “Constraining the Relationship between Oceanographic Features and Deep Scattering Layer Biology for Improved Tactical Capabilities.” 9/7/2021. Co-PI. Naval Undersea Warfare Center. “Determination of Relationship between Oceanographic Features and Deep Scattering […]
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