Ellie Dunkle’s love for the ocean led her to choose the ocean engineering and oceanography through the Spanish IEP at URI, and plan a career providing ocean-generated energy to isolated communities.
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Daniel Hartman, who earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil engineering from URI, was named to BusinessWest magazine’s 40 Under Forty list for 2019. The list recognizes rising stars in Western Massachusetts. Hartman is a principal engineer at Mott MacDonald.
Continue reading "URI Civil Engineering Alumnus Named to 40 Under Forty List"By Sigrid Berka and Andrew Corsini Posted on April 26, 2019 In this global economy, local companies are looking for a multilingual workforce with cultural intelligence, flexibility to move across borders and the ability to solve engineering or business problems through culturally reflective approaches. Multinationals in R.I. have a global footprint in China, France, Germany, […]
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Six ocean engineering students at the University of Rhode Island developed an acoustic device that successfully detects the sounds made by whales and other marine mammals in the vicinity of the Block Island Wind Farm for their senior capstone design class.
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Cherish Prickett, who graduated summa cum laude from the URI’s International Engineering Program in 2018, with bachelor’s degrees in industrial and systems engineering and German, was recently awarded a prestigious Fulbright award. She will pursue a master’s degree in risk, disaster and resilience at University College London’s Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction.
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“I’m grateful that I took advantage of learning French in college, because it gave my engineering career a global opportunity that I would never have imagined.”
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URI Civil Engineering Professors Chris Baxter and Aaron Bradshaw will examine the engineering of the Block Island Wind Farm’s jacketed support structure. The results of the 28-month research study will be utilized in wind farm applications worldwide.
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John M. Grandin, the founding director of URI’s International Engineering Program, will receive at honorary degree at URI commencement ceremony on May 19.
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Sydney Robinson, a senior biomedical engineering student at the University of Rhode Island, has received the Guiding Star Award from the Society for Women Engineers (SWE).
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Kevin DeMers, who earned a civil engineering degree from the University of Rhode Island in 2000, has been named senior project engineer of DiPrete Engineering’s Dedham, Mass. office.
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The 13 teams in URI’s biomedical engineering senior capstone design program presented their work at the Northeast Bioengineering Conference at Rutgers University on March 22.
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M. Reza Hashemi, an assistant professor in the Department of Ocean Engineering at URI, has co-written the first textbook of its kind on ocean energy. The 336-page book is titled “Fundamentals of Ocean Renewable Energy: Generating Electricity from the Sea.”
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URI Assistant Professor Gretchen Macht explains why the key to building a sustainable future is to create systems informed by the human factor, which, at its core, is how we think and work.
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URI College of Engineering Professor Walter Besio and his colleagues at other universities are creating the first underwater noise-canceling EEG sensors to better understand the octopus’ nervous system/brain.
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Rhode Island Commissioner of Postsecondary Education Dr. Brenda Dann-Messier visited the University of Rhode Island College of Engineering on March 6. She spoke with students in the mechanical engineering senior capstone program.
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By Neil Nachbar Yi Zheng, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Rhode Island, has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, one of the most prestigious research awards in support of an early-career faculty member. The five-year, $503,293 award is for the “Investigation of Nanoscale Radiative Heat Transfer for Enhanced Thermal Infrared […]
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The BBC recently featured the research of URI ocean engineering assistant professor Brennan Phillips, who has worked on deep ocean soft robotic grippers.
Continue reading "Brennan Phillips’ Research Featured on BBC"By Neil Nachbar Having grown up in the shadows of the University of Rhode Island’s Kingston campus, Aly Fairbrother looked forward to attending the University since she was very young. “I used to study at the URI library when I was in high school just so I could walk around the campus,” the West Kingston […]
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Assistant Professor Kunal Mankodiya’s Wearable Biosensing Lab was represented at the Rhode Island Textile Innovation Network’s first-ever academic/industry networking event, held recently at URI. The event drew more than 200 attendees, including members of Rhode Island’s congressional delegation.
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By Neil Nachbar Vanessa Kamara has always had a curious mind and a thirst for knowledge. As a biomedical engineering student at the University of Rhode Island, the junior has enjoyed learning about the many scientific disciplines involved in her major. “Our biomedical engineering program is great because it integrates biology, chemistry, mechanics, and of course […]
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