Professor Civil & Environmental Engineering and Ocean Engineering 401.874.6575 Fax: 401.874.6837 cbaxter@uri.edu Office Location: Sheets, Narragansett Bay Campus Recent Grants1 Grant 2022-2024 PI. RI CRMC/ US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement “Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Pilot Structural Monitoring Project” 2019-2023 PI. RI CRMC/ US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement “Block Island Structural Monitoring […]
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Digging for Quahogs Inspired Student to Study Geotechnical Engineering
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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Professor Ocean Engineering 401.874.6169 rballard@uri.edu Office Location: Ocean Science and Exploration Center 103, Narragansett Bay Campus Website: Ocean Exploration Trust Recent Publications1 Citation Sudek M, Spathias H, Coward G, et al. Expedition to the National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa EXPLORING THE DEEP SEA IN THE AMERICAN SAMOA ARCHIPELAGO. OCEANOGRAPHY, 2020; 33(1), 42-43 Carey […]
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Adjunct Full Professor Mechanical, Industrial, & Systems Engineering 401.874.2524 agagnostopoulos@uri.edu Office Location: Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering 304 Recent Publications1 Citation Kumar A, Heidari-Bafroui H, Charbaji A, Faghri M, Anagnostopoulos C. Paper-Based Bi-Material Cantilever Actuator Bending Behavior and Modeling. Micromachines, 2023; 14(924). Doi: 10.3390/mi14050924 Kumar A, Heidari-Bafroui H, Charbaji A, Faghri M, Anagnostopoulos C. Development […]
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Professor Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering 401.874.2874 tao_wei@uri.edu Office Location: Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering 419 Lab: Next Generation Sensing Technology Lab Lab: High Performance Computing Laboratory (HPCL) Recent Grants1 Grant 8/27/2022. Co-PI. National Science Foundation. “CYPHER: CISE-CCF-SHF: Introducing a New In-Sensor Computing Architecture for Intelligent 3-D Imaging Systems.” 7/29/2022. Co-PI. National Science Foundation. “CYPHER: […]
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University of Rhode Island chemical engineering assistant professor Daniel Roxbury received a five-year grant for $500,000 from the National Science Foundation to develop an entirely new approach to imaging within live cells. The funding was awarded to Roxbury through NSF’s Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER).
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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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Majoring in biomedical engineering at URI has allowed Corvah Akoiwala to combine his interests in medicine and engineering. It also enabled him to make a prosthetic arm for a 9-year-old amputee in Colombia.
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Ellie Dunkle ’19 plans to start her own company to create technologies to help remote communities be self-sustaining and connected to society.
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Three URI engineering students developed a small, portable water treatment system for the rural city of La Romana in the Dominican Republic.
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URI researchers take part in an engineering study of the Block Island Wind Farm. The results will be utilized worldwide.
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Rachel Bellisle, who graduated summa cum laude from the University of Rhode Island’s biomedical engineering program in 2018, is conducting research in bioastronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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Kunal Mankodiya’s Wearable Biosensing Lab is working to create wearable systems, such as smart clothes and socks, which can non-invasively track patient metrics and provide a window for medical professionals.
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Professors Haibo He and Yan Sun gave a presentation to the Southeastern New England Defense Industry Alliance (SENEDIA) on the vulnerability of the electric grid to cyber and physical threats.
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URI civil engineering alumnus Matthew Fuller has formed a solar-powered food cart business with his friend and fellow URI alumnus Justin Bristol. Each food cart Fuller builds has a unique, creative design. The concept is taking off.
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Yi Zheng, assistant professor of mechanical engineering has earned one of the most prestigious National Science Foundation research awards in support of an early-career faculty member.
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Vanessa Kamara’s hard work and thirst for knowledge has paid off, as the URI biomedical engineering major earned an undergraduate research grant to study a flexible, biodegradable, self-powering sensor.
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Zhen Ni, who earned a doctorate in electrical engineering from the University of Rhode Island in 2015, has been honored as the most promising young investigator in the field of neural networks by the International Neural Network Society.
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In recognition of her contributions to trust modeling and statistical signal processing for cyber-physical security, Professor Yan Sun has been elevated to the rank of Fellow by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
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URI Assistant Professor Brennan Phillips has developed a modular, soft robotic “arm” that can flex and move with unprecedented dexterity to grasp and sample delicate aquatic life.
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James Miller, URI professor of ocean engineering, and a team of experts have determined that the sound from the turbines at the Block Island Wind Farm is having no detectable effect on the marine environment.
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A team of URI engineering students, led by Assistant Professor Gretchen Macht, is trying to improve the voting experience for Rhode Islanders, after long delays in the voting process were reported in the 2016 general election.
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“The Digital Dog Nose,” created by Otto Gregory, chemical engineering professor at the University of Rhode Island, could be placed at subway stations, train stations, airports and ports to detect bombs.
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Junior Karla Haiat is headed to California for a prestigious summer internship at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute to create a robot that mimics the behavior of the giant larvacean.
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