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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This fall semester, 28 URI students from eight different majors learned how to turn an idea into a product prototype in an engineering entrepreneurship course. Each team pitched their product to a panel of industry experts, who served as judges.
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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 and Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division announced a $4 million gift for the College of Engineering, in the form of state-of-the-art manufacturing technologies that will advance undergraduate and graduate research programs.
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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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The University of Rhode Island’s Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering is a win for the school, the state of Rhode Island and the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport.
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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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The 2019 HealthHacksRI event, held at the University of Rhode Island on Oct. 5-6, challenged students to identify a specific issue related to sleep, design a solution that would alleviate the problem and pitch the idea/product to a panel of judges.
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It was announced at the official opening of the Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering that the engineering quad will be named after Dean Raymond M. Wright.
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Researchers in URI’s College of Engineering are developing a device for detecting the explosive triacetone triperoxide (TATP) in its vapor form. Their new detection system, which pairs a conductance sensor with a traditional thermodynamic sensor, confirms the presence of TATP at the level of parts per billion.
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URI Assistant Professor Gretchen Macht and three URI students appeared before the Rhode Island Board of Elections recently to present a report on voter data that could be used in an app.
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Charles Watson, assistant director of diversity for URI’s College of Engineering, has been named a regional chairperson of the National Association of Multicultural Engineering Program Advocates (NAMEPA) for 2020-2022.
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The 32nd Annual Rhode Island Transportation Forum will take place at URI’s Fine Arts Center on Oct. 25. The theme will be “Durable Infrastructure for a Sustainable and Resilient Transportation System for Eternal Peace and Prosperity.”
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Barbara Morse Silva visited the URI College of Engineering to do a feature for Channel 10’s Health Check segment on the smart glove. The glove has been developed by Associate Professor Kunal Mankodiya and students in his lab to monitor patients with Parkinson’s disease.
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More than 500 people joined URI President David M. Dooley and College of Engineering Dean Raymond Wright on Oct. 7 to officially celebrate the opening of the Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering.
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The wind ensemble AkaBlas, from the Technical University (TU) Braunschweig in Germany, visited URI from Sept. 25-26. TU Braunschweig is the partner university of the URI International Engineering Program.
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The 2019 HealthHacksRI will take place at URI on Oct. 5-6. This year’s theme is “Innovate 4 Sleep.” Students from all programs are encouraged to form teams to develop innovative solutions to sleep issues. Win up $1,000 in prizes!
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