Awards

Young patients use virtual reality to focus on healing

March 3, 2020

By introducing virtual reality into their physical therapy regime, young patients are able to stay engaged and motivated throughout their training.

ASU professor builds a student-focused learning environment

February 28, 2020

Assistant Professor Christian Hoover draws upon real-world examples and past experiences in education to focus on student needs in the classroom.

Harnessing forces of turbulent flow key to array of tech solutions

February 27, 2020

Yulia Peet is striving for a deeper understanding of fluid dynamics to spark advances in aerospace, mechanical, biomedical and energy engineering.

Decoding design

February 25, 2020

Brent Nannenga is exploring biomolecular structures to advance nanomaterial synthesis as a 2020 National Science Foundation CAREER Award project.

New tool navigates the brain’s addiction mechanisms

February 18, 2020

Barbara Smith is developing a new tool to help researchers target specific cells to better understand how addiction impacts cellular mechanisms in the brain.

Robotics research to the rescue

February 12, 2020

ASU's Stephanie Gil has been awarded a 2020 Sloan Research Fellowship for computer science.

Tutor evolution: A new path for learning at scale

January 30, 2020

Circuit Tutor is an interactive tutorial program created by Brian Skromme at ASU to guide students taking introductory circuit classes in a scalable way.

Kozicki honored for research, teaching excellence

January 27, 2020

Professor Michael Kozicki earned the 2019-2020 Joseph C. Palais Distinguished Faculty Scholar Award, a high honor for electrical engineering faculty at ASU.

Pipe down: Preventing pipeline degradation using analytics

January 22, 2020

Deteriorating natural gas pipeline infrastructure has Yongming Liu developing diagnostic and prognostic tools to improve pipeline maintenance.

Tongay explores the quantum realm to international acclaim

January 17, 2020

Sefaattin Tongay is making a name for himself in quantum materials with influential materials research that has earned prestigious grants and awards.

ASU engineer makes mobile health apps more effective

December 30, 2019

Daniel Rivera is using control systems engineering techniques to improve the effectiveness of mobile health apps in increasing healthy behaviors.

ACM Fellow honor adds to professor’s career achievements in computing

December 11, 2019

Subbarao Kambhampati’s elevation to distinguished member of the Association of Computing Machinery reflects his contributions to research, teaching and leadership in his field.

A soft approach to a hard problem in autonomous vehicles

December 5, 2019

Aviral Shrivastava developed software techniques to combat hard-to-detect hardware errors in critical systems such as autonomous vehicles.

Machine learning: Data, data everywhere, but not enough to think

December 4, 2019

Pavan Turaga and his research team are exploring ways of making machine learning models faster and more accurate through the use of the laws of physics.

Robert Pfeffer’s influential career in particle technology recognized with service award

November 19, 2019

The ASU research professor’s extensive career in education, research, organization and leadership earned award from the Particle Technology Forum.

Frontier of engineering sparks knowledge

October 18, 2019

Rebecca Muenich shared her expertise and perspective with interdisciplinary colleagues from around the country at the U.S. Frontiers of Engineering symposium.

Assessing the quality of water to improve the quality of life

October 16, 2019

Otakuye Conroy-Ben earned the Technical Excellence Award from the American Indian Science and Engineering Society for her research and involvement with Native American communities.

Aiming to elevate construction education

October 1, 2019

Enhancing ASU construction management students’ educational experiences is the goal of a new Del E. Webb School of Construction endowed professorship.