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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Jacira Soares grew up in a poor community in Cape Verde. She had to walk a mile or more as often as three times a day to get drinkable water. As a graduate student at URI, Soares is studying how to make clean water accessible to rural communities around the world.
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For the first time since 2019, the URI Engineering & Technology Career Fair was held as an in-person event at the Ryan Center. More than 90 employers and 667 URI students attended the event.
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URI Associate Professor Kunal Mankodiya will give a keynote talk on “Smart Textile Wearables for Healthcare” at the Smart Wearables & Fashion 4.0 Congress. The virtual event will take place Oct. 27-28.
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With the goal of helping communities worldwide improve infrastructure challenges that affect their health and safety, students at URI are attempting to form a chapter of Engineers Without Borders.
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Cloud computing systems haven’t progressed at the same rate as cloud applications and hardware devices. Weiwei Jia, who joined the URI computer engineering faculty, is developing the next generation of cloud systems to handle current and future technology.
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URI held a kick-off event for the Vote Yes On 1 campaign. If Question 1 is approved on the ballot, $100 million in bonds will be used to improve buildings and facilities at the Narragansett Bay Campus, including upgrades to ocean engineering facilities.
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URI held a kick-off event for the Vote Yes On 1 campaign at the Narragansett Bay Campus. If Question 1 is approved on the November ballot, $100 million in bonds will be used to improve buildings and facilities on the Bay Campus, including much-needed upgrades to the ocean engineering facilities. College of Engineering Dean Anthony […]
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As we welcome back our faculty, staff, and students for the start of a new academic year, it is an appropriate time to celebrate the accomplishments of our community of scholars in the College of Engineering at the University of Rhode Island. It is an exciting time for the University, and it is my honor […]
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Normally used just for clients, FM Global will bring its SimZone on Tour trailer to URI on Sept. 12. The trailer takes interactive exhibits related to fire protection, flood protection and more on the road across North America.
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Researchers at URI have been studying Staphylococcus aureus, a common bacterium found in the nasal cavity that can cause severe infections. Their work could enable more effective antimicrobial drugs to be designed to counteract it.
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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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Undergraduate students from around the state presented their summer research projects at URI. The College of Engineering was well represented at the annual symposium, which attracted 450-plus students, faculty, family and friends.
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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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Students from all engineering majors at URI gained valuable hands-on, real-world experience this summer as interns for prestigious companies throughout the country. Several of the internships led to job offers.
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The multidisciplinary design firm Ballinger has featured the URI Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering on its new website. Check out the great photos and read about the planning that went into the bold design of the 190,000-square-foot building.
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IEP alumni share some of their recent highlights and accomplishments.
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Dean Anthony Marchese began his tenure at URI in January 2022 following the retirement of Dean Raymond Wright.
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A devoted advocate for the power of language learning, IEP Coordinator Melissa Schenck ’09, ’11 M.A, received a Beatrice S. Demers Fellowship for an intensive language course in Germany in summer 2022.
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This summer, the IEP has been busy meeting with academic and industry partners in Europe, as well as students currently interning there, to demonstrate our continued commitment to international collaboration.
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Several of our interns sent us photos from their internship placements and/or participated in site visits by the IEP this year. Scroll through this gallery walk to learn more about where they have been placed and what they have been doing.
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Kevin Suggs, a rising fifth-year senior from Pawtucket, RI, will travel to Fukuoka, Japan this fall for his long-awaited year abroad through the International Engineering Program.
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Daniel Roxbury, URI associate professor of chemical engineering, was named to the Providence Business News 40 Under Forty list. The list recognizes individuals under the age of 40 who have excelled in their profession.
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When Tania Silva de Oliveira came to URI for an exchange program from Brazil as an undergraduate in 2013, she didn’t know she would fall in love with the University. She certainly wouldn’t have predicted that she would be on the verge of completing a doctorate in chemical engineering at URI nine years later.
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