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Chemical engineering student wins poster award at national conference

December 28, 2017

Chemical engineering senior Anikki Giessler's research into DNA clustering behaviors earned her a poster session award at the 2017 American Institute of Chemical Engineers annual meeting.

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Photo of Sebastian Husein holding a trophy in a lab. Caption: Sebastian Husein became the second consecutive student from Mariana Bertoni's group to bring home the Lynn Preston Trophy after winning the NSF's Perfect Pitch competition. Photographer: Jessica Hochreiter/ASU

QESST student wins NSF’s Perfect Pitch Competition

December 20, 2017

Sebastian Husein, a scholar in QESST, won the National Science Foundation’s Perfect Pitch competition at the biennial meeting. This marks the second straight time that a QESST student from Assistant Professor Mariana Bertoni’s group has won.

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Photo of Ho-Toi Wai holding a plaque next to Kyle Squires

High-caliber contributors: Dissertation Award winners ready to make big impacts

December 15, 2017

Bing Si and Hoi-To Wai were each awarded the 2017 Dean's Dissertation Award at convocation. The Dean’s Dissertation Award recognizes graduating doctoral students who excel as researchers and leaders.

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Recent grad seeks to make a difference for her country through solar energy

December 13, 2017

Brigitte Lim took her applied project for the Fulton Schools' Solar Energy Engineering and Commercialization professional science master's program to a global platform that may help make her idea a reality in the Philippines.

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Meet the Fulton Schools’ exceptional graduates of Fall 2017

December 11, 2017

As the Fulton Schools prepares to send newly graduated engineers, innovators and creators out into the world, we take time to highlight some truly exceptional graduates of the Class of 2017.

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Photo of seven people standing. caption: Construction engineering graduate student Xiao Xiao Lyu and construction management graduate students Monisa Manju Nagarajan Gomathi and Trey Tan won the SAVE International University Challenge Award for Value Engineering for their work helping to improve the process of Thanksgiving and Christmas food distribution at Agua Fria Food and Clothing Bank. Pictured: Faculty Associate and Construction Engineering Manager Chris Kmetty, Chairman of the Pebble Creek Community Church Mission Committee Edna DeFord, Kmetty Consulting Certified Value Specialist Géza Kmetty, Xiao Xiao Lyu, Monisa Manju Nagarajan Gomathi, Faculty Associate and Certified Value Specialist Stephen Kirk and Agua Fria Food and Clothing Bank Executive Director Leanne Leonard. Photographer: Monique Clement/ASU

Engineering project saves Thanksgiving for hundreds of Arizona families

November 21, 2017

Three students in Arizona State University’s Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering used the power of value engineering to help the food bank improve its process, winning them the University Challenge Award for Value Engineering from SAVE International.

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ASU junior wins national chemical engineering Minority Scholarship Award

November 11, 2017

Allan Smith Buyinza won the Minority Scholarship Award at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers conference.

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photo of three people in front of a computer monitor. Caption: Ethan Lawrence (right) joined doctoral students around the country to found the Microscopy Society of America Student Council. Photographer: Jessica Hochreiter/ASU

ASU student helps found Microscopy Society of America Student Council

October 27, 2017

Ethan Lawrence, along with other doctoral students around the country, founded the Microscopy Society of America Student Council helping to build a community among the future leaders of the field.

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Potential to help keep U.S. an innovation nation brings students coveted research fellowships

October 19, 2017

Six Fulton Schools of Engineering doctoral students have joined the ranks of National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellows, who are seen as future research and education leaders.

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A team of students dressed in maroon ASU polos accept an award with their faculty mentor. The caption reads: Above: The Arizona State University VisionHack team accepts their award after finishing first place for Best Presentation, Most Original Approach and Most Innovative in the computer vision hackathon. Left to right, faculty mentor Jared Schoepf, computer science undergraduate students Abhik Chowdhury and Ashley Megumi Satkowski, computer science graduate student Daniel D’Souza, software engineering graduate student Alexander Lampis Slaughter and electrical and computer engineering graduate student and team lead Sami Mian take the stage at the conclusion of the three-day hackathon, held at Moscow's National University of Science and Technology from September 11-13, 2017. Photo courtesy of NUST MISIS

ASU hacks the competition in Moscow hackathon

September 22, 2017

A team of Sun Devil engineers brought home a trio of first-place awards from VisionHack, a computer vision hackathon held in Moscow.

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Photo of two female ASU students showing educational content to local girls on island of Nguna. Caption: On the island of Nguna, a community that lacks access to electricity, internet and running water, Brittany Blevins (far left) and Brianna Fornes (far right) show some of the local children the educational content available on the SolarSPELL

Student’s humanitarian spirit helps make global impact

September 14, 2017

Brittany Blevins knows that engineers have a great responsibility to society. With the speed at which technology is advancing, it is a field that needs skilled people more than ever.

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Five individuals, three young men and two older men, stand in a gymnasium before a poster detailing their capstone project. The caption reads: Left to right, biomedical engineering students Mohammad Mousa, John Tobey and Barrett Anderies pose for a photo with Professor Marco Santello, director of the School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering and Dr. Rami Aoun, of the Mayo Clinic's Department of Neurological Surgery at the SBHSE capstone project showcase in April 2017. Photo courtesy of Barrett Anderies

Biomedical engineers land second place in NIH’s DEBUT challenge

September 5, 2017

Three biomedical engineering students garnered the praise of the National Institutes of Health for their innovative 3D brain mapping tool.

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Meet the class of 2021

August 18, 2017

Each year, we pull aside some members of the incoming class to learn about why they came to ASU, their hopes, dreams and more. Read on to get to know the class of 2021.

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Photo of the SAE car with a group around the car with one speaking. Caption is Members of the ASU chapter of the Society of Automotive Engineers and their supporters gathered recently for the unveiling of a new race car equipped with aerodynamic features designed to boost the vehicle’s performance. Photographer: Pete Zrioka/ASU"

Revved up: High hopes for hitting new heights

June 14, 2017

An ASU student race car team is determined to put in an impressive showing at a leading international automotive engineering competition.

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Photo of three students attaching an auger to a drill with a caption of "The Next Level Devils preparing to test their conical tapered anchor prior to heading to NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory near the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Photographer: Marco-Alexis Chaira/ASU"

Next Level Devils take off on microgravity adventure with NASA’s Micro-g NExT program

June 2, 2017

The Next Level Devils

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Photo of four students standing next to a table with a small vehicle on top of the table with a caption of "Jayse Langdon, Jon Simiyu, Andrew Dopilka and Alex Cook work on their fuel-cell-powered car in preparation for the national American Institute of Chemical Engineers' Chem-E-Car competition this November. Photographer: Pete Zrioka/ASU"

Fulton Schools students build a car and skills with chemistry

May 19, 2017

The team's innovative design ideas earned them second place in the 2017 AIChE Rocky Mountain Regional Conference competition in March.

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A woman in cold weather gear — a red parka, white snow pants and a knit cap — stands before a green sign welcoming her to Uhuru Peak, the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, in Africa. Behind her, the tops of other mountains are visible as the horizon expands outward. The caption reads: Sophie Olson stands atop Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa at the completion of the first marathon in her seven-continent marathon tour. From 2013-2016, Olson ran seven marathons, one on each continent, while working full time and pursuing her bachelor's degree in materials science and engineering. Photo courtesy of Sophie Olson

Mother of three completes academic marathon — and some others along the way

May 10, 2017

Sophie Olson didn't think she would graduate until 2020, but through perseverance and dedication, and with a clear goal in mind, she outpaced her own expectations.

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Innovative work with optoelectronics earns Preston Webster Palais Outstanding Doctoral Student award

May 10, 2017

Preston Webster's contributions to a slew of publications and hard work earned him the coveted Palais award for graduating electrical engineering doctoral students.

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