For students who wish to pursue a career in sustainable energy, the University of Rhode Island’s Energy Fellows Program provides paid experiential learning opportunities. Six of the 14 energy fellows this year are engineering students.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Jacqui Roush, a sophomore majoring in ocean engineering and marine biology at URI, spent half the summer researching the location, concentration and movement of microplastics in Narragansett Bay.
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Kotachi Liu, a doctoral student in ocean engineering, won honorable mention in the URI Research and Scholarship Photo Contest for an image of a cross section of the housing tube of a marine parchment worm.
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When URI switched to remote learning in March due to COVID-19, 53 students who were studying and working abroad through URI’s International Engineering Program were brought back to the United States, where research and internship opportunities were arranged for them.
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The University of Rhode Island Chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) has earned the URI Robert Rainville Team Excellence Award.
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Recent URI industrial and systems engineering graduate Power Kanga shared his inspiring story of overcoming adversity and ultimately achieving success at URI.
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Justin Hayes and Alexa Leone, who recently received bachelor’s degrees in chemical engineering and ocean engineering respectively, are two of only five URI students to earn graduate research fellowships from the National Science Foundation.
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The electrical and computer engineering students in the URI ELECOMP Capstone Program recorded YouTube videos of their presentations this year.
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With a shortage of personal protective equipment available for first responders, several students in URI’s College of Engineering have helped fabricate face shields.
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Lukas Duwe’s research an “All Solid Lithium Ion Battery for Safety and Stability” earned him the 2020 Excellence in Master’s Thesis Research Award from the URI Graduate School.
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URI engineering clubs and organizations selected new board members for the 2020-2021 academic year.
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After a shoulder injury ended Power Kanga’s football career at URI, he focused his energy on his industrial and systems engineering studies and URI’s ROTC.
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