By Neil Nachbar How loud is too loud when it comes to music being played at neighborhood bars? To answer that question and settle a dispute between bar owners and residents of the town of East Greenwich, James Miller, professor of ocean engineering and acoustics expert at the University of Rhode Island, was hired by […]
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Zhiqiang Wan, who is pursuing a doctorate in electrical engineering from the University of Rhode Island, was named this year’s winner of the URI Graduate Student Research and Scholarship Excellence Award in Life Sciences, Physical Sciences and Engineering. “This is a tremendous honor,” said Wan. “It motivates me to continue to work hard on my research.” Wan, who […]
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Three interns in the Wearable Biosensing Laboratory at the University of Rhode Island’s College of Engineering won first place in the Astropreneurship, Space Medicine and the Dataverse Hackathon, held at Harvard University from June 8-9. The three interns, Himanshu Mishra, Ayush Arora and Adityaraj Verule, are visiting URI from the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi, where they are […]
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By Neil Nachbar According to a survey conducted in 2018 of nearly 400,000 people, roughly one-third of Americans sleep fewer than six hours per night. With sleep being linked to cognitive and physical health, solutions to sleep deprivation are needed. The 2019 HealthHacksRI event, held at the University of Rhode Island on Oct. 5-6, challenged students to […]
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It was announced at the official opening of the Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering that the engineering quad will be named after Dean Raymond M. Wright. The plaque reads, “In honor of his outstanding service and visionary leadership on behalf of the students, faculty, and staff of the College of Engineering and of URI.”
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By Neil Nachbar Charles “Chuck” Watson, assistant director of diversity for the University of Rhode Island’s College of Engineering, has been named a regional chairperson of the National Association of Multicultural Engineering Program Advocates (NAMEPA) for the term of 2020-2022. NAMEPA provides services, information and tools to educators in elementary, secondary and higher education to develop engineers […]
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The 32nd Annual Rhode Island Transportation Forum will take place at URI’s Fine Arts Center on Oct. 25. The theme will be “Durable Infrastructure for a Sustainable and Resilient Transportation System for Eternal Peace and Prosperity.” Peter E. Sebaaly, professor at the University of Nevada and director of the Western Region Superpave Center, will deliver the keynote […]
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Anyone within earshot of the University of Rhode Island Quad between 6:15-7:00 pm on Sept. 25 was treated to a free concert from a 65-member orchestra. The wind ensemble AkaBlas visited URI from the International Engineering Program’s (IEP) partner university in Braunschweig, Germany. Their two-day stay also included a performance in URI’s Fine Arts Center and the German […]
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The Southeastern New England Defense Industry Alliance (SENEDIA) awards a $1,500 scholarship to URI chemical engineering student Emma Sudduth.
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By Neil Nachbar Nearly 930,000 people in the United States will have Parkinson’s disease by 2020, according to a Parkinson’s Foundation study. That figure is projected to increase to 1.2 million by 2030. A smart glove that can collect data based on the movements of those living with the disease and other movement disorders is being developed by University of […]
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By Neil Nachbar “When digging for quahogs, you have to agitate the soil surrounding the quahogs. Without realizing it, I was literally getting my feet wet in learning about soil mechanics,” said Tim Keefe, who is now pursuing his master’s degree in civil engineering at the University of Rhode Island. Keefe’s interest in geotechnical engineering […]
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By Neil Nachbar If there was a sensor small enough to interact with and enter individual cells, imagine the information that could be collected. University of Rhode Island chemical engineering assistant professor Daniel Roxbury plans to use carbon nanotubes, which are 100,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair, to serve as sensors and gather […]
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Each semester, the University of Rhode Island student chapter of Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW) picks a hands-on project to work on. The project the group chose for the spring 2019 semester was a hydroponics system for plants. Using six cylinders of four-inch PVC pipe, the students built the system in the shape of […]
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The URI HydRobotics team put recently on a demonstration for middle school and high school students who are following in their footsteps. The occasion was SeaPerch, an underwater remotely operated vehicle (ROV) competition that took place at the URI Tootell Aquatic Center on May 10. The robotics event featured 128 students on 38 teams. “The greatest purpose of […]
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By Neil Nachbar Two University of Rhode Island senior engineering students were among this year’s recipients of the URI Black Scholar Awards. Tailynn McCarty, a chemical engineering major from Providence, was presented the Saint Clair Drake Award for Outstanding Scholarly Research. Nathan Ankomah-Mensah received the Saint Elmo Brady Award for Outstanding Achievement in Science. The native […]
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By Neil Nachbar Cherish Prickett, who graduated summa cum laude from the University of Rhode Island’s International Engineering Program (IEP) in 2018, with bachelor’s degrees in industrial and systems engineering and German, was recently awarded a prestigious Fulbright award. The Fulbright provides research, study and teaching opportunities to recent graduates and graduate students. Prickett will […]
Continue reading "German IEP Alumna Receives Fulbright Award"By Neil Nachbar Students from a wide range of majors came together to discuss, plan and present solutions to sustainability-related issues affecting the University of Rhode Island’s campuses at the second annual URI Sustainability Summit. Held April 13-14 in the Galanti Lounge of the Robert L. Carothers Library, students listened to industry experts prior to competing in […]
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Sydney Robinson, a senior biomedical engineering student at the University of Rhode Island, has received the Guiding Star Award from the Society for Women Engineers (SWE). The award recognizes exceptional collegiate leaders who have at least two years of SWE membership and have made outstanding contributions to SWE, the engineering community, their campus and the community. No […]
Continue reading "SWE Recognizes URI Engineering Student with Guiding Star Award"One of the most provocative and technologically advanced engineering buildings in the country, the new URI College of Engineering building will open for classes in September 2019.
Continue reading "Exciting Time-lapse of New Engineering Building!"By Neil Nachbar University of Rhode Island engineering students spend ample time getting hands-on experience with innovative technology. Two of those students had the rare opportunity to share their experience with the public through interactive demonstrations at URI’s Brain Fair on March 16. Dan Brogan, a junior mechanical engineering student, brought a couple of robots from […]
Continue reading "URI Engineering Students Exhibit Their Brain Power"One of the responsibilities of the Resident Academic Mentors (RAMs) in the Engineering Living Learning Community (ELLC) at the University of Rhode Island is to organize three events per semester that incorporate an academic component. Among the most popular of these events each year is the liquid nitrogen ice cream social. By hand-mixing cream, milk, […]
Continue reading "Engineering RAMs Concoct a Tasty Event"By Neil Nachbar The use of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) crosses over many disciplines and industries. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of this emerging technology, the University of Rhode Island encouraged students from all majors to participate in the inaugural Immerse-a-thon event on March 2. Held in the makerspace in URI’s Robert L. Carothers Library, 13 students […]
Continue reading "URI Students Get Immersed in Virtual and Augmented Reality"URI College of Engineering undergraduate students are encouraged to apply for one of the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) programs described below. Both programs run for 10 weeks, from May 20 to July 26, and have an application deadline of Feb. 15. RI C-AIM SURF (RI Consortium for Coastal Ecology Assessment, Innovation, & Modeling) Collaborate with […]
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By Neil Nachbar 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 (INNS). Currently an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at […]
Continue reading "Alumnus Wins Young Investigator Award In Neural Networks"By Neil Nachbar In the business world, people are accustomed to pitching a concept or a product under pressure. Engineers on the other hand, aren’t normally taught this skill. Making a Pitch Nine teams of University of Rhode Island engineering students had six minutes to convince an audience of their peers, faculty and leaders of […]
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