Tim Keefe’s interest in geotechnical engineering traces back to his childhood when his father taught him how to dig for quahogs in Narragansett Bay. As an engineering graduate student at URI, Keefe is still learning about the properties of soils and other materials
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Hydroponics System Named Project of the Month by ESW
A hydroponics system for plants that was built by the University of Rhode Island student chapter of Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW) was recognized as the Project of the Month by ESW’s umbrella organization.
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URI civil and environmental engineering alumnus Frank Marinaccio was honored with the Rhode Island Society of Professional Engineers’ (RISPE) Young Engineer of the Year Award on May 23. Marinaccio is a project engineer for BETA Group, Inc.
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Engineering students from the University of Rhode Island and UCONN recently presented their senior capstone design projects at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) in Newport.
Continue reading "URI Senior Capstone Design Projects Address Navy’s Needs"Designing Prostheses has Prepared URI Senior for Career in Medical Device Industry
Majoring in biomedical engineering at URI has allowed Corvah Akoiwala to combine his interests in medicine and engineering. It also enabled him to make a prosthetic arm for a 9-year-old amputee in Colombia.
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Ellie Dunkle ’19 plans to start her own company to create technologies to help remote communities be self-sustaining and connected to society.
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Daniel Hartman, who earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil engineering from URI, was named to BusinessWest magazine’s 40 Under Forty list for 2019. The list recognizes rising stars in Western Massachusetts. Hartman is a principal engineer at Mott MacDonald.
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Cherish Prickett, who graduated summa cum laude from the URI’s International Engineering Program in 2018, with bachelor’s degrees in industrial and systems engineering and German, was recently awarded a prestigious Fulbright award. She will pursue a master’s degree in risk, disaster and resilience at University College London’s Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction.
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John M. Grandin, the founding director of URI’s International Engineering Program, will receive an honorary degree at URI’s commencement ceremony on May 19.
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URI researchers take part in an engineering study of the Block Island Wind Farm. The results will be utilized worldwide.
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URI Ocean Engineering Professor Stephan Grilli led the effort to produce a new simulation model which illustrates the collapse of Indonesia’s Anak Krakatau volcano and its subsequent tsunami.
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Rachel Bellisle, who graduated summa cum laude from the University of Rhode Island’s biomedical engineering program in 2018, is conducting research in bioastronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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Professors Haibo He and Yan Sun gave a presentation to the Southeastern New England Defense Industry Alliance (SENEDIA) on the vulnerability of the electric grid to cyber and physical threats.
Continue reading "URI Professors Give Tech Talk on Cyber-Physical Security"Phillips Leads Search for Submerged Artifacts
URI assistant professor of ocean engineering Brennan Phillips is leading a team of researchers in a survey of the ocean floor just off Stonington Borough in Connecticut to look for artifacts from the 1814 Battle of Stonington during the War of 1812.
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URI Assistant Professor Kunal Mankodiya, along with the students in his Wearable Biosensing Laboratory, are developing wearable technology to monitor, treat, and help people with Parkinson’s disease and other medical conditions.
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Malcolm Spaulding, professor emeritus of ocean engineering at the University of Rhode Island, referred to the design of Providence’s hurricane barrier as a “conservative design” for its time. Given the sea level rise, he now considers the design “not so conservative.”
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An ope-ed in The New York Times described the University of Rhode Island’s International Engineering Program as a program “for students looking to become truly global engineers.”
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URI ocean engineering Professor James Miller has been hired to conduct a sound study of East Greenwich’s waterfront area. A proposed town ordinance would limit the noise level for waterfront businesses to 60 decibels.
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M. Reza Hashemi, an assistant professor in the Department of Ocean Engineering at URI, has co-written the first textbook of its kind on ocean energy. The 336-page book is titled “Fundamentals of Ocean Renewable Energy: Generating Electricity from the Sea.”
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URI civil engineering alumnus Matthew Fuller has formed a solar-powered food cart business with his friend and fellow URI alumnus Justin Bristol. Each food cart Fuller builds has a unique, creative design. The concept is taking off.
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URI alumnus Roby Luna will share his inspirational story of growing up in South Providence to eventually become president of the data science firm Aretec Inc., as part of the Anthony J. Risica Lecture Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. The lecture will be on March 25 from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in URI’s Robert J. Higgins Welcome Center.
Continue reading "Entrepreneur to Share his Inspiring Story at Risica Lecture"Prof. Yalda Shahriari to Host a ‘Pioneer In Neuroscience’
URI assistant professor of biomedical engineering Yalda Shahriari will host visiting scholar Michael X. Cohen, associate professor of neuroscience, from Radboud University in the Netherlands, from April 8-12.
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URI College of Engineering Professor Walter Besio and his colleagues at other universities are creating the first underwater noise-canceling EEG sensors to better understand the octopus’ nervous system/brain.
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Rhode Island Commissioner of Postsecondary Education Dr. Brenda Dann-Messier visited the URI College of Engineering on March 6. She spoke with students in the mechanical engineering senior capstone program and the Wearable Biosensing Lab.
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Yi Zheng, assistant professor of mechanical engineering has earned one of the most prestigious National Science Foundation research awards in support of an early-career faculty member.
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