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Research Highlight: Zannatul Ferdous
Dr. Zannatul Ferdous, an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering, leads a research team addressing one of humanity’s biggest health issues. Cardiovascular diseases are the world’s number one cause of death, with some estimates indicating that as many as one-third of the planet’s deaths in a given year are attributable…
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Research Highlight: Jason Hayward
Working with Oregon State University, Jason Hayward is working to improve the accuracy and reduce the cost of monitoring the massive amounts of plutonium that are housed in nuclear facilities. Hayward’s team hopes to use cosmic ray muons, a type of particle, to do this. “Cosmic ray muons are so highly penetrating that they have…
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Research Highlight: Wei He
Wei He, a joint assistant professor in the Departments of Materials Science and Engineering and Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering, is carrying out exciting engineering research on materials-enabled interventions to tackle challenging medical problems. He’s doctorate is in chemistry, but her research has progressed from chemistry to engineering materials to biomedical science. She says that…
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Research Highlight: Jeremy Holleman
Holleman is also teaming with some unlikely partners to investigate low-power integrated circuits for biomedical devices and other wireless sensing applications—bats.
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Research Highlight: Ramki Kalyanaraman
In finding the right mix of materials, the UT-led team happened upon an entirely unexpected result—a magnetic material with extremely strong optical interactions that place it under consideration as a metamaterial, meaning a material with properties not found in nature.
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Research Highlight: Yilu Liu
Yilu Liu, Governor’s Chair for Electric Power Grids and Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has been named a newly elected member of the National Academy of Engineering, among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. Liu was elected “for her innovations in electric power grid monitoring, situational awareness, and dynamic modeling,” according to…
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Research Highlight: Thanos Papanicolaou
Thanos Papanicolaou’s research is informing farmers and improving agricultural techniques designed to preserve and restore soil organic carbon (SOC) for healthier soil. Carbon is essential to soil, but it is easily depleted from intensively managed landscapes. Papanicolaou’s research focuses on ground slope and its relationship to concentrations of carbon in the soil from organic sources.…
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Research Highlight: Fred Wang
Wang’s research is aimed at avoiding some of those costs by utilizing existing intelligent switches and fast communication links in smart grids, improving the economic benefits and reliability of the system, and by using open source software and general purpose hardware to reduce controller and deployment cost.
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Brian Grim: Student Report from 2016 Alternative Summer Break in Cuba
Going on any international experience with the Tickle College of Engineering is an experience of a lifetime. It is an immersive experience that you really can’t get anywhere else and is much better than going to a foreign country on a vacation. An international experience with the College of Engineering allows you to see more…
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