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SPARK App League prepares students for jobs of the future

September 24, 2018

Middle and high-school students from around Arizona learn how to code in a visual programming language at the sixth annual SPARK App League Game Jam.

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Energizing research

July 26, 2018

Combining their varied expertise, ASU and Pakistan researchers are seeking to overcome hurdles to sustainable energy for underserved populations.

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High school students embark on cross-country trek in solar-powered cars

July 18, 2018

The Solar Car Challenge features teams of high school students learning how to plan, design, engineer, build, race and evaluate roadworthy solar cars. This year the students’ journey includes a stop in Tempe at Arizona State University.

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ASU conference primes Southeast Asia to lead Industry 4.0

June 7, 2018

Arizona State University partnered with Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City to host nearly 600 attendees for STEMCON 2018 academic, industry and government leaders collaborated, connected and shared best practices that will lead to innovative change in Southeast Asia’s science, technology, engineering and mathematics environment.

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Photo of seven women posing outdoors. Caption: Fulton Schools sustainable engineering doctoral student Evvan Morton (far left) and Shakira Hobbs, an engineering research associate at the University of Virginia (far right), are shown with school teachers in the Belize village of Sittee River. Morton and Hobbs are leaders of a project aimed at helping the remote rural community to adopt renewable energy technology and establish an environmentally safe waste management system. Photo courtesy of Evvan Morton and Shakira Hobbs.

It takes a village: acting locally, thinking globally

May 24, 2018

International community outreach projects are preparing engineering doctoral student for a career to help make the world more environmentally sustainable.

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Power of exchange: Proximity creates possibilities

May 16, 2018

Exchange programs are a critical part of the knowledge transfer that is taking place among the partner institutions that make up the U.S.-Pakistan Centers for Advanced Studies in Energy.

photo of girl holding items. Caption: Civil engineering student Emily Alcazar worked to advance the current state of 3D-printed concrete in Professor Narayanan Neithalath’s lab for a future of faster, cheaper and cleaner construction. Photographer: Jessica Hochreiter/ASU

Student research highlighted at FURI Symposium

April 24, 2018

Sharing research and ideas at the FURI Symposium is part of the experience for more than 200 students who presented their research.

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Photo of three girls around a pink pool with foli boats. Caption: At GEAR Day, Girl Scout Juniors planned, designed and built boats made of aluminum foil with the help of members from ASU’s Society of Women Engineers. Photographer: Marco-Alexis Chaira/ASU

Inspiring the next generation of female engineers at ASU

April 4, 2018

Nearly 100 Girl Scouts learned what it’s like being an engineer from students in Arizona State University’s Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at GEAR Day.

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ASU Open Door 2018

February 27, 2018

Thousands of visitors descended on the Polytechnic and Tempe campuses for ASU Open Door. The Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering faculty, staff and students had a slew of activities for guests of all ages, with interactive exhibits on topics ranging from 3D printing, electron microcopy and environmental microbiology to disease detection with smell, the future of photovoltaic technology and rocketry.

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STEMteachersPHX Conference helps teachers inspire students to pursue STEM studies

February 13, 2018

The STEMteachersPHX Conference aimed to educate school teachers and administrators on how to build strong STEM programs that encourage students to learn about STEM fields.

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Photo of two boys working on a robot on a table. Caption: The FIRST® LEGO® League features young students learning basic principles of science, technology, engineering and math as they work as teams building robots, solving problems and learning teamwork. Photographer: Marco-Alexis-Chaira/ASU

Robot rumble: kids learn tech and teamwork

February 5, 2018

The FIRST® LEGO® League features young students learning basic principles of science, technology, engineering and math as they work as teams building robots, solving problems and learning teamwork.

3D reconstruction renderings of red cabbage and Swiss cheese. Renderings courtesy of Konrad Rykaczewski

Red cabbage and Swiss cheese produce interest in science

January 5, 2018

Konrad Rykaczewski worked with a team to create a microscopy demonstration that encourages a student's natural fascination with scientific phenomena.

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Photo of four men, two of which are holding a plaque. Caption: Members of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee present ASU officials with a plaque of appreciation during the launch of the HCMC Smart Sustainable City Project collaboration.

ASU, Ho Chi Minh City launch Smart City initiative

December 22, 2017

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Photo of female speaking as part of a group in front of a room. Caption: Vietnamese student teams presented product prototypes at the Maker to Entrepreneur Program’s competition at University of Danang’s Maker Innovation Space in September 2017. Photo courtesy of Thao Nguyen

Arizona State University supports Vietnamese student entrepreneurship competition

December 7, 2017

Teams of student innovators presented prototypes as part of the Maker to Entrepreneurship Program competition held to celebrate the grand opening semester of the Maker Innovation Space at the University of Danang in Vietnam.

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Photo of 10 people standing in front of a poster. Caption: Scholars from the US-Pakistan Centers for Advanced Energy, UET Peshawar pose in front of their poster entitled, “Hybrid Energy Testbeds for Remote Communities of Pakistan.” Winners listed. (Left: Khuram Shahzad. Fourth from the left: Muhammad Shoaib Khalid. Seventh from the left: Kiran Israr. Right: Ahmad Amin and Adnan Zahid.) USPCASE

USPCAS-E scholars in it to win at Arizona Student Energy Conference

November 15, 2017

Scholars from the U.S.-Pakistan Centers for Advanced Energy, UET Peshawar will be bringing home an award from an annual two-day symposium focusing on renewable energy, technology and policy at the Sixth Annual Student Conference on Renewable Energy Science, Technology and Policy.

High school students compete in the FIRST Robotics Competition Arizona State Championship at Wells Fargo Arena in October 2017.

Robots battle for FIRST Robotics Competition State Championship

November 9, 2017

Arizona State University hosted the FIRST® Robotics Competition State Championship in partnership with the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, Access ASU and the Sanghi Family Foundation, and showcased the pathway of FIRST programs and STEM opportunities at ASU and beyond.

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Homecoming 2017 – May the Fork Be With You

October 31, 2017

A time-honored ASU tradition, Homecoming 2017 brought together students, parents and alumni to celebrate their Sun Devil spirit.

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A comic strip created by Syeda Qudsia. CAption: A cartoon Qudsia and cartoon graphene molecule bond over chemical interactions. Image courtesy of Syeda Qudsia.

Picture this: Pakistani scholar brings illustrative twist to thesis

September 15, 2017

Syeda Qudsia successfully defended her thesis at the National University of Sciences and Technology on the applications of graphene oxide for solar cells, using cartoons.