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Global Outreach and Extended Education
February 27, 2012
GOEE’s online and executive programs provide professional development opportunities and advanced education for international academic institutions, governments and corporations.School or unitGOEE -
Higher Engineering Education Alliance Program
February 27, 2012
HEEAP attracts industry support to improve Vietnam’s engineering curriculum.School or unitGOEE -
Facilities and Infrastructure
February 27, 2012
The Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering have more than one million square feet of space in 10 existing facilities.School or unitFulton Schools -
Inspiring future engineers
February 23, 2012
We foster awareness and interest in engineering through programs for middle and high school students and teachers. -
‘Emerge’ event attracts industry leaders, changemakers in redesigning futures
February 23, 2012
ASU hosted “Emerge”, an unparalleled campus-wide collaboration that unites artists, engineers, bio scientists, social scientists, storytellers and designers to build, draw, write and rethink the future of the human species and the environments that we share.School or unitFulton Schools -
Engineering alumnus gives back “to a place that so richly gave” to him
February 23, 2012
Ron Thomas earned a master’s in electrical engineering, an MBA and a Ph.D. from ASU.School or unitECEE -
Investing in Engineering
February 23, 2012
Jeff Ehret, president and founder of The PENTA Building Group, renewed his generous support for the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering this year.School or unitFulton Schools -
Thank you for your support
February 23, 2012
Gifts to the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, July 1, 2010 through June 30, 2011School or unitFulton Schools -
Zapata takes larger role in advising on US transportation challenges
February 21, 2012
Claudia Zapata, an ASU engineer, will soon begin a three-year term as chair of the national Transportation Research Board’s Committee on Engineering Behavior of Unsaturated Soils. Zapata’s chair appointment “helps tremendously in maintaining ASU’s place as a leader in the field of unsaturated soil mechanics.”School or unitSSEBE -
Haynes brings expertise in synthetic biology to ASU’s biomedical engineering program
February 21, 2012
Karmella Haynes, assistant professor in the School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering, one of ASU’s Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, was recently elected for a two-year term as a councilor for the Institute of Biological Engineering (IBE). Haynes recently accepted the offer to join ASU because she saw the engineering program is “sincerely invested in advancing synthetic biology” and is teaching the subject in the hands-on fashion she prefers.School or unitSBHSE -
Applying medical imaging expertise to battles against kidney disease, nervous system disorder
February 21, 2012
Kevin Bennett, a biomedical engineer and physicist at ASU, is playing a leading role in research to improve detection of early-stage kidney disease and treatment for children with neurofibromatosis. Both ASU projects have earned grants from the American Heart Association (AHA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).School or unitSBHSE -
Advances in robotic weapons systems give rise to complex issues
February 20, 2012
Experts are dealing with potential implications of deploying drones as a way of managing manpower costs, increasing defense capabilities, and meeting the demands of modern warfare. Werner Dahm, director of the Security and Defense Systems Initiative at Arizona State University, offered his perspective on increasingly advanced robotic weapons systems in a recent Wall Street Journal column.School or unitSEMTE -
Regents’ Professor expands horizons of chemical engineering
February 15, 2012
Jerry Lin was drawn to an emerging area of chemical engineering and his mastery of it would earn him a scholarship for graduate study in the United States, a post-doctoral research job at a leading university in Europe and faculty positions at American universities.School or unitSEMTE -
New nano-material combinations produce leap in infrared technology
February 13, 2012
Arizona State University researchers are finding ways to improve infrared photodetector technology that is critical to national defense and security systems, as well as used increasingly in medical diagnostics, commercial applications and consumer products.School or unitECEE -
Scientific advances promise better ways to engineer water-safety systems
February 13, 2012
ASU researchers are seeking better ways to remove health-threatening contaminants from water sources and to develop technologies to help the country’s smaller and more remote communities maintain water-safety standards.School or unitPOLYSSEBE -
Night owls, star gazers, explorers-at-heart gather March 3 in Tempe
February 8, 2012
On March 3, ASU’s Tempe campus will shine a spotlight on more than 165 activities to celebrate the sciences, arts, humanities and engineering as part of the Arizona SciTech Festival.School or unitFulton Schools -
ASU, Intel help modernize higher education in Vietnam
January 31, 2012
Arizona State University and Intel Corp. recently renewed a joint commitment to help improve higher education and technological development in Vietnam through he Higher Engineering Education Alliance Program (HEEAP). HEEAP’s mission is to modernize teaching and learning methods in Vietnam’s schools of higher education as a way to support economic development in the country. The program is providing a model for advancing engineering education to prepare engineers to support Vietnam’s growing high-tech industry.School or unitGOEE -
Weightless Wonder: ASU students selected to fly in zero gravity plane
January 30, 2012
Made up of ASU undergraduate students, the Dust Devils Microgravity Team has been selected to fly in NASA’s 2012 Reduced Gravity Education Flight Program. The team is one of 14 teams from across the nation selected for the highly competitive program. The students will fly in June on the Weightless Wonder, an airplane run by NASA that provides zero gravity.School or unitSEMTE -
Young alum sells software, scores position with Jobing.com
January 27, 2012
Sean Coleman, alumnus of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, is receiving high praise after selling his site matching technology company, Blogic, to Jobing.com. Among the list of accolades over his short career, Coleman has been named one of the top “35 enterprenuers under 35” by the Arizona Republic.School or unitSCAI -
ASU chosen to compete in international solar home competition
January 27, 2012
Arizona State University has been selected to be part of one of 20 teams from universities and colleges throughout the United States and the world to compete in the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2013. ASU will team with the University of New Mexico (UNM) for the international competition to build energy-efficient, solar-powered houses “that combine affordability, consumer appeal and design excellence,” according to the DOE’s announcement.School or unitECEESSEBE -
New student group opens doors to careers in systems engineering
January 26, 2012
Arizona State University systems engineering students can delve into the field beyond their classroom studies through a student division of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE). The group offers students opportunities to network with system engineering professionals and get hands-on experience.School or unitSCAI -
U.S. News gives online engineering education program high marks
January 26, 2012
Online engineering education at Arizona State University’s Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering is earning recognition for its quality and innovation. In recent national rankings by U.S. News & World Report, ASU’s engineering schools place number two for student services and technology provided in an online graduate engineering program.School or unitFulton SchoolsGOEE -
ASU, Washington State on team to map new trajectory for energy system grid
January 23, 2012
Arizona State University is leading a multidisciplinary, multi-university team to investigate requirements for a systematic transformation of today’s electric grid. The future grid needs to support high penetrations of highly variable distributed energy resources mixed with large central generation sources, energy storage, and responsive users equipped with embedded intelligence and automation.School or unitECEE -
Breakthroughs may pave way to new generations of tiny electronics
January 18, 2012
Arizona State University electrical engineer, David Ferry, is among scientists and engineers sparking talk about the possibility of producing yet another next-generation of tiny electronic devices.School or unitECEE -
Costs of parking include big ‘environmental footprint’
January 17, 2012
Assistant professor, Mikhail Chester, offers an accounting of economic costs, energy consumption and environmental impacts of building and maintaining extensive parking infrastructure on the scale that exists in the United States. He’s trying to provide data that can serve as a reliable guide for public policymakers to devise sustainable solutions to transportation-planning challenges.School or unitSSEBE -
Strengthening metal alloys would provide energy, environment conservation benefit
January 10, 2012
Kiran Solanki, assistant professor of engineering, is working on ways to make more resilient light-weight metal alloys. Such improved materials could help reduce the energy consumption necessary to power motor vehicles.School or unitSEMTE -
Robot advances raise ethical, cultural questions for society
January 10, 2012
Professor Brad Allenby ponders the ethics behind robots and society in his book review titled, “Morals and machines.” Allenby provides a guide to challenges addressed by the book’s contributors, noting how the authors offer the value of sometimes sharply differing views on how to address those challenges.School or unitSSEBE -
‘Entrepreneurs of the year’ combine engineering, business skills
January 4, 2012
A team of ASU engineering students won the Entrepreneur Magazine’s College Entrepreneur of 2011 award for their G3Box project that began in an EPICS course. -
Human-machine interaction could restore lost movement ability
January 4, 2012
Arizona State University engineer and neuroscientist Stephen Helms Tillery is using his expertise in brain-computer interface technology to seek ways to help people with limited physical mobility regain movement.School or unitSBHSE -
Robotics challenges inspiring youngsters to learn engineering
December 20, 2011