News – College of Engineering

Mechanical engineering student awarded DOE’s University Nuclear Leadership Program scholarship

Over the past two years, University of Rhode Island student Max Richardson has earned $15,000 in competitive federal support for his studies—most recently through the U.S. Department of Energy’s University Nuclear Leadership Program scholarship for $10,000. As a high school student, Richardson, of Groton, Connecticut, was introduced to mechanical principles and computer-aided design when he joined FIRST […]

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URI and NUWC mutually boost Rhode Island’s undersea blue economy

In the natural world, the most resilient ecosystems are based on intricate networks in which each element strengthens the other by capitalizing on their mutual purposes. The University of Rhode Island and the Naval Undersea Warfare Center-Division Newport (NUWC) have created an ecosystem that operates on the same principle.

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Two recent URI graduates take home awards at transportation forum

Congratulations to URI grads Rakesh Paswan, Ph.D. ’25, and Emma Pensky, M.Sc. ’25, for earning the Best Dissertation and Best Thesis awards at the Rhode Island Transportation Forum! Their work is helping shape the future of resilient and equitable transportation.

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URI engineering ‘07 alumnus returns to campus to announce a partnership with his startup

Christian Apollon, ‘o7, announced a new collaboration between the University of Rhode Island and Cranium Inc., a startup he co-founded.

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Chemical engineering Ph.D. candidate to complete co-op, defend dissertation

Mechanical engineering, chemistry and physics may seem like three separate areas of study, but they overlap in more ways than one. Elnaz Nikoumanesh, a fifth-year Ph.D. chemical engineering candidate, knows that well. She studied mechanical engineering during her undergraduate and master’s studies, but became very interested in experimental work with biological and soft materials. This […]

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URI receives $500,000 from The Champlin Foundation for hands-on learning technologies

The Champlin Foundation recently supported three interdisciplinary proposals submitted by faculty from URI’s Colleges of the Environment and Life Sciences, Engineering, and Pharmacy.

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URI taps geothermal energy for Bay Campus

The University of Rhode Island is taking a multi-pronged approach in its efforts to work toward net-zero carbon emissions—including looking to sources of renewable energy.

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URI team creates tabletop blast device to study long-term consequences of traumatic brain injury

The URI-built experimental model offers new way to look at TBI-related neurodegenerative disease.To help their colleagues in URI’s Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Arun Shukla and Akash Pandey in URI’s College of Engineering were brought in. An expert in blast mitigation, Shukla consults frequently with the U.S. Navy, while Ph.D. candidate Pandey helps develop […]

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URI engineering professor honored by alma mater with Distinguished Alumnus Award

University of Rhode Island chemical engineering professor Arijit Bose has been selected as a 2025 Distinguished Alumnus Award recipient by his alma mater, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. The honor is the highest award given to its alumni in recognition of their outstanding achievements. IIT Kanpur is one of the premier institutions established by […]

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URI engineering professor wins NSF dataset award

Assistant Professor Mehrshad Amini’s paper, Methodology for Virtual Damage Assessment and First-Floor Elevation Estimation, and its data explore a different way to assess damage to buildings due to storm surges and massive waves, and earned the NSF NEHRI DesignSafe Dataset Award this past spring.

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