The International Engineering Program expands to Italy, offering students a chance to study at the University of Calabria and intern for an esteemed Italian engineering firm.
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Professor He: Boosting Computer Intelligence
Haibo He is wasting no time shaking up the field of computer intelligence. In September 2013, the electrical engineering professor was named the recipient of the 2014 Outstanding Early Career Award from the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, the field’s premier professional organization.
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To understand the effects of underwater explosions and implosions on submarines, engineers are conducing experiments for the U.S. Navy.
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Engineering alumna Dorothy Rasco (’81) helps lead a NASA team working to capture an asteroid, put humans on Mars and more.
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Computer engineering Professor Qing Yang is a serial entrepreneur, leveraging his University research to start successful companies.
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There are more than 15 million refugees in the world. Millions of them live in squalor with limited shelter. For two University of Rhode Island professors and their class, that’s unacceptable.
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Emily Moorehead left her internship at FM Global with a bang. Literally. The chemical engineering student spent the summer of 2012 conducting explosions for the insurance company.
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