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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While many of her peers had summer internships cancelled or changed to remote internships, Natalie Wilcox was fortunate to complete two in-person internships this past summer for companies in New York City.
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As a guest on The Peggy Smedley Show podcast, Assistant Professor Bin Li discussed how his research on mixed reality could be used to train first responders such as firefighters. He also described other potential applications for the technology.
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Working with a team of oceanographers, marine biologists and engineers at NUWC this summer, URI ocean engineering student Catherine Eno and mechanical engineering doctoral student Irine Chenwi studied the effects noise and shock loads have on marine mammals.
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Jason Gomez, who received a master’s degree and doctorate in mechanical engineering from URI in 1997 and 2000 respectively, was selected as the 2020 National Defense Industrial Association Bronze Medal winner. Gomez is the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport’s chief technology officer.
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URI chemical engineering professors Samantha Meenach and Jie Shen will be guest editors of a special issue of the journal Pharmaceutics. The issue, titled “Particle Engineering for Drug Delivery Applications,” will be published in 2021.
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What if a face mask could be used as much more than a mitigation strategy in the battle against COVID? A team of students at URI have developed a “smart mask” that can quantitatively monitor COVID-19 symptoms.
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Irene Andreu will deliver the first seminar of this fall’s Amgen-sponsored chemical engineering series. Dr. Andreu joined URI in 2018 as the director of the Rhode Island Consortium of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and an adjunct faculty in chemical engineering.
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Timo Kuester, who is a doctoral candidate in chemical engineering, is part of a team that is developing marine sensors to detect pollutants in Narragansett Bay. Motivated to become a more effective communicator, Kuester has attended several science communication programs.
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Appearing on an episode of National Geographic’s series X-Ray Earth, URI Ocean Engineering Professor Stephan Grilli shared the modeling work he’s done on tsunamis and the devastation they can cause.
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URI Professor Gretchen Macht’s research on voting process layouts is expected to improve safety and efficiency at voting locations during the upcoming election.
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NASA legend and URI aeronautical engineering alumnus Donald D. Arabian was a NASA legend passed away on Aug. 11 at the age of 95. Arabian worked on all of the major U.S. manned space programs from Mercury through Apollo.
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URI spent the summer making sure safety measures were in place for the safest possible reopening of the campus in September.
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