Every year the college couples hands-on learning with economic impact through its senior capstone design projects.

To ensure wind turbines in the ocean stay upright, you call civil engineering Assistant Professor Aaron Bradshaw.

Engineering students to work on bullet trains, the college welcomes two new professors, civil engineering shakes things up, the college strengthens its ties to a German University and more.

The college launches a master planning process to study innovative and transformational facilities that will serve today’s teaching, learning and research needs.

Marc Vigeant believes that engineers should better society. This summer he will practice what he preaches in Guatemala.

More than two million people annually die from water-borne illnesses, while billions more suffer from its effects. Engineering Assistant Professor Vinka Oyanedel-Craver is working to fix that.

When your computer opens a file with lightening speed, you may just have Professor Qing Yang to thank.

NASA has sent space shuttles Discovery and Enterprise to space and back, but engineering their transport to museums was a new challenge. Fortunately, NASA employs URI alumna Dorothy Rasco.

Dean Raymond M. Wright explores the importance of research and outlines the college’s plan to focus research around seven contemporary themes.

The work of Professor Otto Gregory and his students keeps jet plane passengers safe and Air Force pilots flying.

At URI, engineering student Michelle Pelletier made a name for herself developing self-healing concrete. Now a process engineer for a medical device company, Pelletier is fast becoming a star in new circles.

The International Engineering Program wins a prestigious national award and its two founders say the program continues to innovate.

This engineering professor and her students develop prosthetic devices that let people with missing limbs live unimpeded lives.

A grant offers freshmen opportunities to program robots, the college introduces the associate dean for research, a professor is recognized for her work to deliver clean water to Latin America and more.

The college mourns the passing of Professor Dr. Peng Wang, a dear friend and colleague.

When the last space shuttle landed on July 21, 2011, the job for University of Rhode Island civil engineering alumna Dorothy Rasco began. The head of NASA’s Space Shuttle Transition and Retirement Office must wind down the country’s space shuttle program while ensuring that work on the next-generation space program advances.

When Malcolm Spaulding moved into his dorm room at the University of Rhode Island in the fall of 1965, his family had modest expectations for the first Spaulding ever to attend college. Spaulding himself assumed he would graduate from URI, find a career in engineering and never turn back. Life didn’t quite work out that way.

Engineering professors Arijit Bose and Geoffrey Bothun like to tell their students that thinking small is big here. For the research that students and faulty undertake in nanoscience promises to redefine how we do everything from administer drugs, to clean up oil spills, to power cars.

Imagine if we could detect and stop seizures before they occur. Imagine if our understanding of brain signals could, without surgery, let paralyzed people move. Engineering Professor Walter Besio imagines such a world is possible.

He came to the United States in search of the American dream and found it at the University. The journey of Alfred Rodriguez from the Dominican Republic to the University shows how hard work and determination can lead to great things.

Awards, new staff, electric vehicles, and much more.

It has been an exciting year for the URI College of Engineering. Here are some of our highlights.

Professor Arun Shukla arrived in United States from India with little more than 20 pounds of clothes and 20 pounds of textbooks. Since then he has built an international reputation for studying how things break. And on campus his teaching inspires the next generation of engineers to, well, keep it together.