Long before words like global, interdisciplinary and experiential were common in higher education, URI launched its five-year International Engineering Program. The program has changed the way engineering students prepare to compete in the global marketplace.
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URI Professor Yan (Lindsay) Sun returned to her alma mater, the University of Maryland, to receive a Distinguished Alumni Award. The award recognizes alumni who have made significant and meritorious contributions to their fields.
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Competing against 26 finalists, University of Rhode Island electrical engineering doctoral student Abdullah Rumon won the Best Innovation Pitch competition at the 2022 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Sensors Conference.
Continue reading "Device to Monitor Premature Babies is a Winner for Engineering Graduate Student"The theme of this year’s virtual Colloquium on International Engineering Education, hosted by the University of Rhode Island’s International Engineering Program on Nov. 2-3, was “Connecting Engineering with the Humanities.”
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In U.S. elections, why does it take so long to count votes? Gretchen Macht, a professor of industrial engineering at URI, talked to the KidsPost section of the Washington Post about why that is the case.
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As companies have formed and flourished in Rhode Island’s blue economy, the demand for URI’s talented ocean engineering students has never been greater. Companies have also increasingly turned to URI for support with research and product development needs.
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When Edgewater, Maryland native Maeve Story was deciding where to study ocean engineering, she confidently selected URI. She didn’t realize was how fast Rhode Island’s blue economy was growing and the career opportunities that awaited her.
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Vittorio “Vic” Ricci, who has worked for the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) for more than 37 years, received a Distinguished Achievement Award from the University of Rhode Island.
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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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Former University of Rhode Island engineering professor Bill O’Neill has enough engineers in his family to start a small firm. O’Neill kept a photo in his office at URI for years which showed his family in front of their 1970 Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser.
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A lifelong learner, Kam Ng, who earned his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from URI in 1988, shares his experiences from academia and industry in his five memoirs. Ng spent 30 years overseeing research at NUWC and the Office of Naval Research.
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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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In 2016, 137.5 million Americans voted in the presidential election. For some, casting their ballot wasn’t easy. Six years later, voters are the most polarized they’ve been in decades.
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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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Julia Milardo, who earned her B.S. in industrial engineering from URI in 2017, is a supply chain performance manager at Frito Lay. She’s responsible for managing the financial performance, raw materials, and indirect functions at the Middletown, NY facility.
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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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Engineering alumni Amitesh Saha and Victor Ricci will be honored with URI Distinguished Achievement Awards at a ceremony on Oct. 22. Saha will receive the Rising Star Award and Ricci will accept the College of Engineering Dean’s Award.
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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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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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