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Photo of two people standing next to each other. Caption: Father and son duo Doug and Brent Kolste graduate together in May 2018, when online student Doug Kolste will fly to Arizona for the ceremony. Photo courtesy of Kolste family

A family that learns together, earns together

A father and son graduate together with bachelor's degrees from the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, achieving a long-time educational aspiration.
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Photo of two people in a canoe. Caption: Tempe Town Lake near the Arizona State University campus was the site of the concrete canoe contest, a signature event in the American Society of Civil Engineers annual student competition. Pictured are two ASU students steering their team’s canoe, named “Bullet Bill.” Photographer: Marco-Alexis Chaira/ASU

Civil engineering students compete and connect at ASCE Pacific Southwest Conference

For the first time in almost two decades, the American Society of Civil Engineers Pacific Southwest Conference competitions came to Arizona State University April 12 to 14 bringing about 1,500 students from 18 universities in California, Hawaii, Nevada and Arizona to ASU’s main campus.
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Photo of two men holding a certificate. Caption: Lead writer Chaitanya Kale accepts the Light Metals Division Magnesium Technology Award at the 147th Annual TMS Meeting for Best Student Paper. Photo courtesy of Chaitanya Kale.

Student paper pioneers research on promising alloy

MultiPhysics Lab graduate students won Best Student Paper for research on unique behavior in lightweight material from The Materials, Metals and Minerals Society.
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Photo of three students working at a table together. Caption: ASU students worked with students from around the globe during Devils Invent's – Invent for the Planet to solve high impact, global problems together. Photographer: Marco-Alexis Chaira/ASU

Students innovate for the world, with the world at Devils Invent

The sun never sets on innovation and at Devils Invent – Invent for the Planet, a 48-hour intensive design experience, students from around the globe were able to connect with each other to solve high impact, global problems together.
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Building a legacy of construction excellence at major competition

Construction management and engineering students in the Fulton Schools earned top rankings at the Associated Schools of Construction annual competition.
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Photo of two men in lab coats standing next to each other. Caption: Chi-En Lin, a doctoral candidate in biomedical engineering, has won Metrohm USA’s Young Chemist Award 2018. This is the second year in a row a biomedical engineer from Jeffrey La Belle’s Lab has won the award. Photographer: Marco-Alexis Chaira/ASU

Doctoral candidate’s revolutionary biosensor research earns top award

Chi-En Lin, a doctoral candidate in biomedical engineering, earned Metrohm USA’s Young Chemist Award 2018 for revolutionary research on biosensor technology.
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ASU biomedical engineering graduate student Nicholas Hool, electrical engineering undergraduate student John Patterson and computer engineering graduate student Sami Mian pitch the Hoolest earbud at the ASU Innovation Open semifinal round.

Hoolest lends an ear to stress relief

Hoolest Performance Technologies, a student startup led by biomedical engineering graduate student Nicholas Hool, seeks to create an earbud device that reduces the effects of performance anxiety, stress and nervousness. They will compete for $100,000 in funding at the ASU Innovation Open final round on February 2.
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Three students standing with the middle one holding a plaque. Caption: After giving their Chapter Best Practice speech at the convention, current president Ethan Marschall, former president Allison Marley and current vice president Scott Boege hold their BMES Commendable Achievement Award. Photo courtesy of Ethan Marschall

BMES student chapter earns national recognition

ASU's BMES chapter received the Commendable Achievement Award for the 2016-2017 academic year at the at the BMES Annual Meeting.
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Photo of an dome made of metal sitting on a table. Caption: The lightweight aluminum dome designed by three Fulton Schools freshmen stood out from the competion at the national Domesday ASM Geodesic Dome Design Competition. Photo courtesy of Joshua Burchard

Freshman team outranks undergrads in national “Domesday” competition

Materials science and engineering freshmen secure ASU’s fourth placement in the top three for the past four years in national geodesic dome competition.
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Starbucks Technology Center at ASU's SkySong

ASU interns serve enticing digital experiences for Starbucks customers

For a team of 10 Arizona State University computer science and software engineering students, a Starbucks technology internship means considerably more than becoming a connoisseur of coffee – although that is part of the package.
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Chemical engineering student wins poster award at national conference

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

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

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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Portrait of Brigitte Lim

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

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

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

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

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

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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Date range April 2018 – October 2017