Featuring our most recent group of returnees and graduates, the IEP hosted this first-time event on October 11, 2023.
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French consul general visits URI to recognize faculty, France-URI connections
The U.S.-French relationship has long been positif, since Lafayette visited Rhode Island, and the French government sent a statue across the sea to recognize shared connections. That well-established connection between countries was celebrated recently at the University of Rhode Island, marking continuing collaborations across borders.
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Representatives of URI’s College of Engineering and the International Engineering Program gave local high school students a look at STEM in action at a recent Innovation Day sponsored by the Rhode Island National Guard.
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Mehrshad Amini, Assistant Professor, CVE/OCE Dr. Mehrshad Amini will join the University of Rhode Island in Fall 2023 as an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Department of Ocean Engineering. He completed his Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Pennsylvania State University in 2021. […]
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The Biden administration has set a goal of deploying enough offshore wind turbines to produce 30 gigawatts—enough to power tens of millions of homes—by 2035. Key to that strategy is the development of floating wind turbines that can be built in vast areas of deeper water.
Continue reading "URI Engineering Researchers Awarded $750k Grant on Floating Wind Turbines"URI College of Engineering Awarded $1.14 Million to Attract Under Represented Students
University of Rhode Island Associate Professor Samantha Meenach is the recipient of a federal grant that will help students from underrepresented groups pursue studies in undergraduate bioengineering and bioscience research programs and eventually apply to graduate school in these disciplines.
Continue reading "URI College of Engineering Awarded $1.14 Million to Attract Under Represented Students"IEP Student Zach Tourgee at Coplan AG
Hi my name is Zachary Tourgee and I am a student from Rhode Island. I am doing an internship here at COPLAN AG and want to share my experiences with my time here at COPLAN and in Germany in general. I am 23 years old and am a native Rhode Islander. Rhode Island is the […]
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Mention the term 3D printing to the average person, and it’s fair to say many would think of a smallish, home use machine programmed to create dragons or orcs like those from fantasy gameplay. However, mention it to mechanical engineering major Sofia Lanzi and the term means much, much more. It means a year of […]
Continue reading "IEP Student Prints Her Career Path"What’s New? The Latest from the IEP Alumni Network
IEP alumni share some of their recent highlights and accomplishments.
Continue reading "What’s New? The Latest from the IEP Alumni Network"Award-winning Talent: IEP’s 2023 Top Scholarship Winners
Several IEP students received prestigious awards this year, including one David L. Boren Award, a Fulbright Scholarship, a Barry Goldwater Scholarship, and a total of nine Beatrice S. Demers Fellowships.
Continue reading "Award-winning Talent: IEP’s 2023 Top Scholarship Winners"Making Deeper Connections through NEH Grant
An interdisciplinary team at URI secured a NEH Humanities Connections Grant of over $149 thousand to provide a foundational liberal arts experience to a broader range of undergraduate engineering students, while also increasing the impact of the IEP curriculum.
Continue reading "Making Deeper Connections through NEH Grant"IEP Internship Showcase 2023: Postcards from Abroad
Several of our students sent us updates about their internships and lives abroad this year. Scroll through the postcard updates to learn more about where they interned and some of their experiences abroad.
Continue reading "IEP Internship Showcase 2023: Postcards from Abroad"Targeted Travel 2023: IEP and College of Engineering Team Up to Expand URI’s Partnerships Abroad
The International Engineering Program and URI’s College of Engineering joined forces this summer for a European tour intended to formalize and expand collaboration agreements with our partner universities and companies abroad.
Continue reading "Targeted Travel 2023: IEP and College of Engineering Team Up to Expand URI’s Partnerships Abroad"Record Number of Students Receive Black Scholar Award
Thirty-four students received Black Scholar and Onyx Society awards recently, said Dr. Chris Hunter, interim Dean of University College and chair of the event. Hunter says the awards recognize a blend of academic scholarship as well as community service. “It’s amazing to see what students do to contribute to the University of Rhode Island community […]
Continue reading "Record Number of Students Receive Black Scholar Award"Meet Heather DiFazio, Fulbright Research Awardee
Meet biomedical, German (IEP) and math major Heather DiFazio, who is headed to Switzerland (Universitat Bern) to work on a biomedical device to help those with cancer on a Fulbright.
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These students will spend the 2023-24 academic year abroad studying and interning for their respective signature programs.
Continue reading "9 IEP, IBP and ICSP Students Among URI’s 21 Demers Fellowship Recipients in 2023"IEP’s Brandon Yeh among URI’s recipients of prestigious language scholarships in 2023
Brandon Yeh is a fourth year student in the Chinese IEP from Gaithersburg, Maryland and is majoring in Chinese and electrical engineering.
Continue reading "IEP’s Brandon Yeh among URI’s recipients of prestigious language scholarships in 2023"URI Engineering Fulbright Scholar!
Heather DiFazio ’23 will conduct research at the University of Bern, Switzerland, relating to the development of an artificial intelligence module for a surgical intraoperative diagnostic device that can differentiate between tumors and healthy tissue. DiFazio is a graduating senior in URI’s International Engineering Program, majoring in biomedical engineering and German. She is from […]
Continue reading "URI Engineering Fulbright Scholar!"Aidan Kindopp one of URI’s three Goldwater recipients this year
Aidan Kindopp, a fourth-year French IEP and chemical engineering student from West Chesterfield, New Hampshire, recently won a prestigious Goldwater scholarship along with two other URI peers.
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URI’s IEP hosted the 25th Annual Colloquium on International Engineering Education in Fall 2022, inviting academics, researchers and industry partners from all over the country and the world to discuss important issues within this field.
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The IEP Living Learning Community welcomed 72 residents this fall, bouncing back to pre-pandemic numbers.
Continue reading "Fall ’23 in the IEP LLC"IEP Alumni Feature: Where It All Began
Jodi Ashmun ‘01, recent recipient of the Society of Women Engineers’ WE Local Legacy Award, reflects on how joining the IEP helped shape her life and career.
Continue reading "IEP Alumni Feature: Where It All Began"IEP Alumni Feature: When Opportunity Knocks
Robyn Johnson ‘20 shares about her career path post-graduation, how she landed a new job in Barcelona with Nestlé and how her IEP experiences in Chile helped prepare her for this next chapter.
Continue reading "IEP Alumni Feature: When Opportunity Knocks"Go away, “Fernweh”! Reboot of the J Term German Study Tour
This year’s J Term study tour in Germany was the first to run since the Covid-19 pandemic began. See what our students experienced during this iconic learning opportunity.
Continue reading "Go away, “Fernweh”! Reboot of the J Term German Study Tour"Every Second Counts for URI Student-Athlete Aidan Kindopp
As a distance runner on the URI cross country and track & field teams, Aidan Kindopp is fast and efficient with every stride. As a chemical engineering and French major, through URI’s International Engineering Program, he’s just as judicious with his time.
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