Social distancing and the pandemic forced seniors in the College of Engineering’s capstone design program to overcome obstacles in order to collaborate with each other and communicate with their professors.
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The findings from an ocean engineering senior capstone design project on the Fox Point Hurricane Barrier in Providence was the subject of a segment on Rhode Island PBS.
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Losing electricity was a daily event in Jesse Duroha’s home in Lagos, Nigeria. That was part of his motivation for pursuing a doctorate in industrial and systems engineering with a focus on solar energy systems at URI.
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The most common path to earning an engineering degree from the University of Rhode Island is to enroll in one of the engineering programs straight out of high school, but it’s certainly not the only path.
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Faith Leonard, an ocean engineering student at URI, had a valuable hands-on internship this winter in which she participated in a channel deepening and beach replenishment project.
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Civil engineering alumnus Louis Barone took a trip down memory lane as he walked through The Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering for the first time, thanks to URI senior Natalie Wilcox.
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Puerto Rico has been decimated by hurricanes and earthquakes in recent years. Alesandra Morales-Vélez, who earned a doctorate in civil engineering from URI in 2014, is helping Puerto Rico’s infrastructure become more resilient by teaching engineering students about sustainable practices.
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Niko Tracksdorf, an assistant professor of German and associate director of the German International Engineering Program, earned the Nelson Brooks Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Culture.
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Danielle Goudreau, who earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil engineering from URI, spoke about how she found a cool niche to specialize in and her experience as a woman in civil engineering on The Civil Engineering Podcast.
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Jimmy Li, an alumnus of URI’s electrical engineering and Chinese International Engineering Program, installs signal systems on submarines during the week and is a signal corps officer for the Rhode Island Army Guard on the weekends.
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By embedding nanosensors in the fibers of a bandage, URI Assistant Professor Daniel Roxbury and former URI graduate student Mohammad Moein Safaee have created a “smart bandage” to detect and monitor an infection in a wound.
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How does someone go from dropping out of high school to becoming a CEO of a successful company? Learn how URI helped Brian begin a journey that would result in him running a most unique company in Arkansas.
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Meghan Quinn joined the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as a geotechnical engineer almost a decade ago in search of new, challenging research opportunities, and that’s exactly what she found.
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A proprietary new technology for quickly removing and destroying hazardous chemical compounds from soil and groundwater is being tested by Thomas Boving, URI professor of civil engineering and geosciences.
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Despite advances to autonomous deep sea robotics, the human eye may still be the best “camera” in the low light of the deep ocean, according to URI Assistant Professor Brennan Phillips in a WIRED Magazine article.
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As a youngster, Kenny Sulaimon was always intrigued by new technology. His curiosity led him to URI, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering in 2016, and on to a blossoming career at Google.
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Three Rhode Island companies will benefit from faculty expertise at the URI College of Engineering as part of the 401 Tech Bridge Materials Innovation Challenge. Professors and students from two engineering labs will collaborate with the companies by offering modeling, research, testing and validation assistance.
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As a coastal engineer, URI alumnus Nicholas Bragaia spends most of his time studying what takes place underwater. Bragaia, who graduated from URI in 2018 with a bachelor’s degree in ocean engineering, works in Florida for the global, employee-owned company GHD.
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A multidisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Rhode Island are studying how to restore a dune at a local pond, which would alleviate flood risk and improve water quality, while protecting wildlife living in the area.
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Stephanie Robat knew she would start her own engineering firm some day. Just three years after completing her master’s and bachelor’s degrees in civil engineering from the University of Rhode Island, she made her goal come to fruition.
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The URI VOTES research team, headed by Assistant Professor Gretchen Macht, collected data on Election Day and the days leading up to it to analyze the efficiency of in-person voting.
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The annual colloquium on international engineering education was held virtually for the first time and it turned out to be bigger and better than ever.
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Gözde Çay developed a soft, e-textile chest belt to prevent skin injuries suffered by infants in neonatal intensive care units due to long-term use of adhesives in medical electrodes. A doctoral student in computer engineering, Çay entered her project in the IEEE 60-Second Innovation Video Contest.
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One of URI’s newest engineering professors, Kaushallya Adhikari, will be conducting research that will help the Navy maximize its sonar capabilities. The research will be funded by a Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research.
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Congratulations to URI engineering students Vanessa Kamara and Jackson Sugar for being named to the 2020 Rhode Island Inno Under 25 list. Vanessa is an IEP student majoring in biomedical engineering and German. Jackson is a graduate student studying ocean engineering.
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