News – Page 2 – College of Engineering

Engineering professor earns highly competitive DARPA Director’s Fellowship

Yang Lin in his lab next to a high precision 3D printer

KINGSTON, R.I. — April 23, 2026 — In 2024, Assistant Professor Yang Lin was awarded the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Young Faculty Award, a highly competitive program supporting early career researchers pursuing high-risk, high-impact research. The award provided two-year funding, mentorship, and access to Department of Defense and industry networks to support his project […]

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Two engineering graduates awarded prestigious NSF graduate research fellowships

David Amirsadri and Colby Constantine, who earned bachelor’s degrees in chemical engineering from URI last spring, were awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, one of the nation’s most prestigious fellowship programs, providing three years of financial support to graduate students who have demonstrated the potential to make significant contributions to scientific innovation.

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Student organization builds concrete canoe to race in competition

ASCE 2026 team pose for a group photo with their concrete canoe

April 17, 2026 – The University of Rhode Island American Society of Civil Engineers Student Chapter constructed a boat for the 2025–2026 ASCE Concrete Canoe Competition, Northeast Symposium, a national civil engineering student competition where teams design, build, test, present, and race a canoe made primarily from concrete. The first ASCE Concrete Canoe Competition was […]

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SWE gets a firsthand look at tech development and manufacturing

Eight students from the University of Rhode Island’s Society of Women Engineers were recently welcomed by the team at Cranston’s Electro Standards Laboratories for an unconventional field trip.

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URI to award honorary degree to engineering alum

Daniel L. Harple Jr., chair and CEO of Context Labs, will be awarded an honorary degree by the University of Rhode Island next month.

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Inclusive excellence award winners honored at URI

Samantha Meenach, professor of chemical, biomolecular, and materials engineering and biomedical & pharmaceutical sciences was awarded the Faculty Inclusive Excellence Award.

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URI announces CYPHER IPT 2026

The University of Rhode Island (URI) is excited to announce the CYPHER Integrated Project Team (IPT) Meetings 2026—an invitation-only forum designed to advance cyber-physical security and resilience for naval and defense-relevant systems by connecting U.S. Navy problem holders with solution developers across government, academia, and industry. CYPHER IPT 2026 will be held June 15–18, 2026, […]

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URI hosts over 100 middle school students for underwater robotics competition

student stand outside a pool to watch robots perform in the water

The competition was made possible through the UConn-URI Navy STEM Coalition and brought middle school students from across Rhode Island to compete.

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Accelerating into history: Rhody Racing team set to compete

URI engineering students to race at Michigan International Speedway in May, thanks to partners in the College of Business’ Textiles, Fashion Merchandising and Design Department for support in their new race suits.

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$1.6 million gift from trustee for new engineering scholarship program

Joseph F. Matthews ’80, a member of the University of Rhode Island Board of Trustees and a URI alumnus, has made a $1.6 million gift to the state’s land- and sea-grant institution to establish a permanent endowment fund to expand access to engineering education.

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