Brennan Phillips and the students in his Undersea Robotics and Imaging Lab have produced parts using 3D printers, such as watertight camera enclosures, that enable them to explore thousands of meters below the ocean’s surface.
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Mason Jacob ’24, an aspiring multidisciplinary engineer, did a fellowship in which he focused on the physical structure of buoy platforms that collect high-resolution data and send the data to the Narragansett Bay Campus for analysis.
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URI civil and environmental engineering graduate students Andrew Pariseault, Pamela Franco, and Bolaji Oladipo, who were recognized for their research at the Transportation Infrastructure Durability Center‘s (TIDC) Student Recognition Night.
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URI electrical engineering PhD student Shehjar Sadhu presented her research at the IEEE/ACM international conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies (CHASE) in Washington, D.C. Her research was published in the journal Smart Health.
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Shimadzu Scientific Instruments is this year’s winner of the URI corporate Distinguish Achievement Award. Shimadzu’s instruments are used by URI College of Engineering faculty, students, and industry partners, as well as other researchers at URI.
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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.
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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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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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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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Researchers at URI have been studying Staphylococcus aureus, a common bacterium found in the nasal cavity that can cause severe infections. Their work could enable more effective antimicrobial drugs to be designed to counteract it.
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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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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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Daniel Roxbury, URI associate professor of chemical engineering, was named to the Providence Business News 40 Under Forty list. The list recognizes individuals under the age of 40 who have excelled in their profession.
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When Tania Silva de Oliveira came to URI for an exchange program from Brazil as an undergraduate in 2013, she didn’t know she would fall in love with the University. She certainly wouldn’t have predicted that she would be on the verge of completing a doctorate in chemical engineering at URI nine years later.
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Graduate student Alexa Runyan worked with Assistant Professor Brennan Phillips to create a camera that could provide 3D images in real time to help monitor the health of coral reefs. The camera was tested in Bermuda.
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URI has one of the best ocean engineering programs in the country, according to College Factual. Thanks to funding from the U.S. Department of Energy, companies have an added incentive to take advantage of the ocean engineering program’s equipment and expertise.
Continue reading "Funding Helps Marine Energy Companies Partner with URI Ocean Engineering"Monika Poonia, a chemical engineering postdoctoral researcher in Professor Geoffrey Bothun’s lab, presented her research on surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) and electrochemical sensors at an international conference in Newport.
Continue reading "Postdoctoral Researcher Presents Work at International Conference in Newport"A $1.3 million electron probe microanalyzer has been added to the the Shimadzu Engineering Research Core Facility at URI. This version of the high-powered microscope has been sold in Japan, but it is the only one in the United States.
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Thomas Boving, a professor of engineering and geosciences at URI, will teach and conduct research in India next year thanks to a prestigious Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Award.
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Hui Lin, URI assistant professor of engineering, received a five-year, $500,000 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation to develop programs designed to disrupt cyberattacks. Lin was interviewed by the Providence Business News.
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It’s common for students at URI to catch some rays on the quad toward the end of the school year. The students in the Solar Energy Systems course, however, weren’t on the quad to work on their tans. They were catching rays for academic reasons.
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Irene Andreu Blanco was presented a URI Research and Scholarship Excellence Award for overseeing a large inventory of advanced scientific instrumentation, and making industry and academic partners aware of the availability of the equipment.
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