Seven undergraduate engineering students from URI are spending 10 weeks conducting intensive research through the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program. The program provides valuable hands-on experience, as well as instruction and feedback from faculty and graduate students.
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More glass is being added to the 70,550 square feet of glass already in URI’s Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering as the first of four pieces of art is being installed by Maryland artists Jenn Figg and Matthew McCormack.
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In the past year, Phillips, an assistant professor of ocean engineering at URI, created the most compact deep-sea system in the world that can provide a livestream video feed. Now, Phillips will test the limits of his system, thanks to a three-year, $510,000 Young Investigator Award he received from the Office of Naval Research.
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URI Assistant Professor Ashutosh Giri is researching how to prevent heat buildup in electronic systems at the nanoscale. His research is funded through the Office of Naval Research’s Young Investigator Program. The three-year grant is for $500,000.
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Jeancarlos Nolasco has always been independent, but even the most independent individuals need help once and a while. Nolasco, who earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from URI this spring, received support when he needed it the most from the College of Engineering.
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Zachary Smith, who graduated from URI in 2020 with degrees in electrical engineering, German and Chinese, will be headed to Taiwan this September after earning a Fulbright grant to pursue a master’s degree in energy engineering.
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Not many college students secure a job in their field more than two years before they graduate. Thanks to a prestigious scholarship from the U.S. Department of Defense, University of Rhode Island rising junior Griffin Melican has a job waiting for him when he graduates in 2023.
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If there’s a positive outcome from remote learning during the last year, it’s that students and professors have become adept at collaborating on projects while apart. Adriana Muñoz-Soto is completing a yearlong internship with URI Assistant Professor Brennan Phillips while attending school in Puerto Rico.
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New sensors developed by URI Professor Otto Gregory and chemical engineering doctoral student Peter Ricci are so powerful that they can detect threats at the molecular level, whether it’s explosive materials, particles from a potentially deadly virus or illegal drugs entering the country.
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By having fiber optics woven into fishing line, URI engineering professor Brennan Phillips created the smallest deep-sea system in the world that can provide a livestream video feed. The fiber optic reel system will make deep-sea exploration much more affordable and accessible.
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Through a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Joseph Goodwill, URI assistant professor of environmental engineering, is researching a water treatment method that could be especially useful for small, rural communities.
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By combining new synthetic aperture radar images, field observations from a marine geology underwater survey, and aerial photographs taken by drones, a more accurate model has been created of the Anak Krakatau volcano before and after it collapsed.
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You could say engineering is in Michaela Bellisle’s genes. After all, her grandfather was an electrical engineer, her father is a civil engineer and her sister is a biomedical engineer.
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Elizabeth Taylor, an ocean engineering major and business minor, has been awarded the Ernest F. Hollings Scholarship from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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The University of Rhode Island announced the establishment of the Raymond M. Wright Fast Track Master’s Engineering Endowment. The $2.5 million gift comes from anonymous donors to honor College of Engineering Dean Raymond M. Wright, who plans to retire at the end of the academic year.
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URI mechanical engineering student Raymond Turrisi has earned a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, the most prestigious national scholarship for undergraduate students studying the natural sciences, mathematics or engineering.
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For students who wish to pursue a career in sustainable energy, the University of Rhode Island’s Energy Fellows Program provides paid experiential learning opportunities. Six of the 14 energy fellows this year are engineering students.
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Social distancing and the pandemic forced seniors in the College of Engineering’s capstone design program to overcome obstacles in order to collaborate with each other and communicate with their professors.
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The findings from an ocean engineering senior capstone design project on the Fox Point Hurricane Barrier in Providence was the subject of a segment on Rhode Island PBS.
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Losing electricity was a daily event in Jesse Duroha’s home in Lagos, Nigeria. That was part of his motivation for pursuing a doctorate in industrial and systems engineering with a focus on solar energy systems at URI.
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The most common path to earning an engineering degree from the University of Rhode Island is to enroll in one of the engineering programs straight out of high school, but it’s certainly not the only path.
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Faith Leonard, an ocean engineering student at URI, had a valuable hands-on internship this winter in which she participated in a channel deepening and beach replenishment project.
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Civil engineering alumnus Louis Barone took a trip down memory lane as he walked through The Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering for the first time, thanks to URI senior Natalie Wilcox.
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Puerto Rico has been decimated by hurricanes and earthquakes in recent years. Alesandra Morales-Vélez, who earned a doctorate in civil engineering from URI in 2014, is helping Puerto Rico’s infrastructure become more resilient by teaching engineering students about sustainable practices.
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Niko Tracksdorf, an assistant professor of German and associate director of the German International Engineering Program, earned the Nelson Brooks Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Culture.
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