Akram Abbasi earned the 2020 Excellence in Doctoral Research Award from the URI Graduate School for her research on different applications for nanomaterials.
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A smartphone app developed by URI ocean engineering professors enables property owners to estimate the amount of flood damage to their homes and businesses caused by a major storm.
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An interview with Dr. Sigrid Berka, Executive Director of the International Engineering Program, on how URI’s IEP offers engineering students an edge in the international job market.
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Senior Kelly Domogala shared her experience of working and studying in Zaragoza, Spain through the University of Rhode Island International Engineering Program.
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Students from the College of Engineering’s Water for the World Environmental Engineering Lab received regional recognition for their research at the 2020 New England Water Environment Association (NEWEA) Annual Conference.
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A group of URI students recently completed a J-Term in Germany through the University of Rhode Island International Engineering Program (URI IEP). Check out the videos and blogs from their time abroad.
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A group of engineering students studied sustainability practices in India during URI’s Winter J Term. The students gained first-hand experience in five different cities.
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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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Jason Valdes is fully immersed in the Japanese culture through his experience in the University of Rhode Island’s International Engineering Program.
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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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URI ocean engineering professor Stephan Grilli was interviewed by the BBC about the tsunami models he ran after the collapsed Anak Krakatau volcano in Indonesia.
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URI Assistant Professor Yalda Shahriari is researching a new way for patients with severe motor deficits to communicate by analyzing patterns in their brain wave activity using two non-invasive techniques.
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URI civil and environmental engineering alumna Rachel Dooley was named to the Engineering News-Record New England’s Class of 2020 Top Young Professionals.
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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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Representing government, academia and industry, experts in cyber-physical systems security gathered at the University of Rhode Island on Oct. 18-19 to discuss the advancements and challenges that exist in this crucial field.
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University of Rhode Island engineering alumnus Bryan Reimer received the Jack A. Kraft Innovator Award from the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society at the organization’s annual meeting on Oct. 29.
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Professor Vinka Oyanedel-Craver and Kayla Kurtz, a doctoral candidate in civil and environmental engineering, are mentoring biology major Devyn Barraza on research related to how biofilm affects monitoring of Narragansett Bay.
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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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William Roman, who graduated from the University of Rhode Island with bachelor’s degrees in electrical and biomedical engineering in 2009, was one of seven people to receive the meritorious civilian service award from the Department of Navy at a ceremony on Oct. 18.
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University of Rhode Island Professor James Miller was hired by the town of East Greenwich to help settle a dispute between bar owners and residents over the sound level of music that is being played at the waterfront bars.
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Zhiqiang Wan, who is pursuing a doctorate in electrical engineering from the University of Rhode Island, was named this year’s winner of the URI Graduate Student Research and Scholarship Excellence Award in Life Sciences, Physical Sciences and Engineering.
Continue reading "Doctoral Student Wins Excellence Award for Research"A fully-funded Ph.D. RA position is available from Spring 2019 or Fall 2019 at the Computational Intelligence and Self-Adaptive Systems (CISA) Laboratory at the ECBE Department. More information can be found at: http://www.ele.uri.edu/faculty/he/. Interested students are encouraged to contact Prof. Haibo He at he@ele.uri.edu.
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