While some University of Rhode Island students have been battling COVID-19 locally, two have been taking on the pandemic in Africa – that is, in a virtual challenge.
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It’s important for engineering students to have mentors to offer advice as they enter their profession. It’s especially important for female, minority students – a population sorely underrepresented in the engineering field.
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Several engineering students at the University of Rhode Island are among those who have volunteered their time to fabricate face shields to protect police officers, firefighters, emergency medical services personnel, doctors, nurses and other health professionals from COVID-19.
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When the University of Rhode Island switched to remote learning due to COVID-19, the URI chapter of the Society of Women Engineers figured out ways to still hold meetings, events and elections, while following social distancing rules.
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Since URI switched to remote learning due to COVID-19, members of the IEEE student chapter board have provided tutoring for electrical engineering students through live online sessions and YouTube videos.
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While pursuing his bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering in Mexico City, José Miguel Cantón Leal was seeking a hands-on internship, which led him to the URI College of Engineering.
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Students from the College of Engineering’s Water for the World Environmental Engineering Lab received regional recognition for their research at the 2020 New England Water Environment Association (NEWEA) Annual Conference.
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A group of URI students recently completed a J-Term in Germany through the University of Rhode Island International Engineering Program (URI IEP). Check out the videos and blogs from their time abroad.
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A group of engineering students studied sustainability practices in India during URI’s Winter J Term. The students gained first-hand experience in five different cities.
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The largest construction project in University history, The Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering opened its doors this fall, bringing all the engineering disciplines together in a space that actively supports hands-on, interdisciplinary research and defies departmental silos.
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Jason Valdes is fully immersed in the Japanese culture through his experience in the University of Rhode Island’s International Engineering Program.
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This fall semester, 28 URI students from eight different majors learned how to turn an idea into a product prototype in an engineering entrepreneurship course. Each team pitched their product to a panel of industry experts, who served as judges.
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Professor Vinka Oyanedel-Craver and Kayla Kurtz, a doctoral candidate in civil and environmental engineering, are mentoring biology major Devyn Barraza on research related to how biofilm affects monitoring of Narragansett Bay.
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The 2019 HealthHacksRI event, held at the University of Rhode Island on Oct. 5-6, challenged students to identify a specific issue related to sleep, design a solution that would alleviate the problem and pitch the idea/product to a panel of judges.
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URI Assistant Professor Gretchen Macht and three URI students appeared before the Rhode Island Board of Elections recently to present a report on voter data that could be used in an app.
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Charles Watson, assistant director of diversity for URI’s College of Engineering, has been named a regional chairperson of the National Association of Multicultural Engineering Program Advocates (NAMEPA) for 2020-2022.
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Barbara Morse Silva visited the URI College of Engineering to do a feature for Channel 10’s Health Check segment on the smart glove. The glove has been developed by Associate Professor Kunal Mankodiya and students in his lab to monitor patients with Parkinson’s disease.
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The wind ensemble AkaBlas, from the Technical University (TU) Braunschweig in Germany, visited URI from Sept. 25-26. TU Braunschweig is the partner university of the URI International Engineering Program.
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The Southeastern New England Defense Industry Alliance (SENEDIA) awarded a $1,500 scholarship to URI chemical engineering student Emma Sudduth on Aug. 26 at the SENEDIA Defense Conference in Newport.
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According to a Parkinson’s Foundation study, 1.2 million people in the United States will have Parkinson’s disease by 2030. A smart glove that can collect data based on the movements of those living with the disease and other movement disorders is being developed by URI Associate Professor Kunal Mankodiya.
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Tim Keefe’s interest in geotechnical engineering traces back to his childhood when his father taught him how to dig for quahogs in Narragansett Bay. As an engineering graduate student at URI, Keefe is still learning about the properties of soils and other materials
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A hydroponics system for plants that was built by the University of Rhode Island student chapter of Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW) was recognized as the Project of the Month by ESW’s umbrella organization.
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URI College of Engineering doctoral candidate Nick Constant has been chosen to give the student address at URI’s Graduate Commencement. Constant has worked closely with Assistant Professor Kunal Mankodiya in the Wearable Biosensing Laboratory.
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Two senior engineering students were among this year’s recipients of URI Black Scholar Awards. Tailynn McCarty was presented the award for Outstanding Scholarly Research and Nathan Ankomah-Mensah received the award for Outstanding Achievement in Science.
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The URI HydRobotics team put on a demonstration for 128 middle school and high school students at the SeaPerch event held at the URI Tootell Aquatic Center on May 10. SeaPerch is an underwater remotely operated vehicle (ROV) competition.
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