We reached out to our recent returnees to capture their perspectives on their time abroad, to see what they have been up to and what their upcoming plans are. In this post, read the responses of three of our students.
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With the question of “Will study abroad be possible next year?” looming large for international programs like ours, retooling recruitment and retention efforts has also come to occupy a front-seat role in the day-to-day operations at the IEP.
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The IEP was ecstatic to welcome 55 students into our Living Learning Community this semester, but life in the IEP LLC looks a little different this fall.
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Though the ACIEE has been held for more than two decades now, this year’s global pandemic led the EP team to host the event virtually.
Continue reading "The Show Did Go On: How the IEP Hosted the 23rd Annual Colloquium on International Engineering Education Virtually"
One of URI’s newest engineering professors, Kaushallya Adhikari, will be conducting research that will help the Navy maximize its sonar capabilities. The research will be funded by a Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research.
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Among those listed in this year’s Rhode Island Inno Under 25 is Vanessa Kamara, who is majoring in biomedical engineering and German through URI’s German International Engineering Program.
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Among those listed in this year’s Rhode Island Inno Under 25 is Jackson Sugar, who is working toward his master’s degree in ocean engineering at URI. Sugar earned his bachelor’s degree in ocean engineering at URI in 2019 and was active in the HydRobotics Club for two years.
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While many of her peers had summer internships cancelled or changed to remote internships, Natalie Wilcox was fortunate to complete two in-person internships this past summer for companies in New York City.
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As a guest on The Peggy Smedley Show podcast, Assistant Professor Bin Li discussed how his research on mixed reality could be used to train first responders such as firefighters. He also described other potential applications for the technology.
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Irine Chenwi, a mechanical engineering doctoral student at URI, joined a team of oceanographers, marine biologists and engineers at NUWC this summer to study the effects noise and shock loads have on marine mammals.
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Catherine Eno, who is in her third year of majoring in ocean engineering and marine biology, joined a team of oceanographers, marine biologists and engineers at NUWC this summer to study the effects noise and shock loads have on marine mammals.
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The International Engineering Program, as well as the International Studies and Diplomacy Program, are working hard to make sure sure students in the program graduate within a reasonable time.
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Jason Gomez, who received a master’s degree and doctorate in mechanical engineering from URI in 1997 and 2000 respectively, was selected as the 2020 National Defense Industrial Association Bronze Medal winner. Gomez is the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport’s chief technology officer.
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URI chemical engineering professors Samantha Meenach and Jie Shen will be guest editors of a special issue of the journal Pharmaceutics. The issue, titled “Particle Engineering for Drug Delivery Applications,” will be published in 2021.
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What if a face mask could be used as much more than a mitigation strategy in the battle against COVID? A team of students at URI have developed a “smart mask” that can quantitatively monitor COVID-19 symptoms.
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Irene Andreu will deliver the first seminar of this fall’s Amgen-sponsored chemical engineering series. Dr. Andreu joined URI in 2018 as the director of the Rhode Island Consortium of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and an adjunct faculty in chemical engineering.
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Timo Kuester, an international URI student from Germany, is part of a team that is developing marine sensors to detect pollutants in Narragansett Bay. A doctoral candidate in chemical engineering, Kuester has attended several science communication programs to become a more effective communicator.
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Timo Kuester, who is a doctoral candidate in chemical engineering, is part of a team that is developing marine sensors to detect pollutants in Narragansett Bay. Motivated to become a more effective communicator, Kuester has attended several science communication programs.
Continue reading "RI C-AIM’s Career Development Certificate Earned By Chemical Engineering Student"
Appearing on an episode of National Geographic’s series X-Ray Earth, URI Ocean Engineering Professor Stephan Grilli shared the modeling work he’s done on tsunamis and the devastation they can cause.
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Jacqui Roush, a sophomore majoring in ocean engineering and marine biology at URI, spent half the summer researching the location, concentration and movement of microplastics in Narragansett Bay.
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URI Professor Gretchen Macht’s research on voting process layouts is expected to improve safety and efficiency at voting locations during the upcoming election.
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URI Associate Professor Valerie Maier Speredelozzi shared what it’s like to conduct online teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic with five children at home.
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Kotachi Liu, a doctoral student in ocean engineering, won honorable mention in the URI Research and Scholarship Photo Contest for an image of a cross section of the housing tube of a marine parchment worm.
Continue reading "‘Nature’s Underwater 3D Printer: The Parchment Tubeworm’"