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  • Learning environments that spark curiosity

    August 15, 2009

    Winslow Burleson will use his recently awarded $50,000 Innovation Generation grant from the Motorola Foundation to support efforts to spark young students’ interest in science, technology, engineering and math.
    SCAI

  • Grant to enrich engineering education

    August 11, 2009

    ASU will enrich its engineering education and provide students more advanced preparation to enter the work force through an in-kind software grant from Siemens PLM Software to ASU’s Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. With a commercial value of nearly $245 million, it is the largest in-kind grant in the university’s history.
    Fulton Schools

  • Professor works toward safer nuclear options

    August 11, 2009

    Research that Arizona State University faculty member Pedro Peralta is pursuing with Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists to make nuclear power use safer and more effective will get support from a recent U.S. Department of Energy grant.
    SEMTE

  • Breaking barriers with nanoscale lasers

    July 29, 2009

    Thinnest semiconductor laser holds promise of better computers and Internet access
    ECEE
  • Brad Allenby

    Studying social impacts of emerging military technology

    July 24, 2009

    Brad Allenby, a professor in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, has been selected to be a Stockdale Fellow for the U. S. Naval Academy Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership.
    SSEBE

  • New leader for ASU’s Del E. Webb Construction Programs

    July 17, 2009

    G. Edward (“Edd”) Gibson Jr., a member of the National Academy of Construction with decades of teaching, research, administration and project management experience in the field, is the new Del E. Webb School of Construction Programs Chair at Arizona State University.
    SSEBE
  • Jerry Lin named Regents' Professor

    Professor strives for ‘greener’ power plants

    June 30, 2009

    Research to help make the next generation of power plants more environmentally sustainable will be led by Arizona State University chemical engineering professor Jerry Lin.
    SEMTE

  • Engineering professor wins women’s educator award

    June 17, 2009

    Mary Anderson-Rowland, associate professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering, has won the 2009 Women in Engineering Proactive Network (WEPAN) Educator’s Award.
    SCAI

  • Deputy Vice President for Research named to prestigious academy

    June 11, 2009

    Sethuraman “Panch” Panchanathan, deputy vice president for Research in ASU’s Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Affairs, was recently inducted into the prestigious Canadian Academy of Engineering.
    SCAI

  • Professor puts students on path to patenting their ideas

    June 5, 2009

    Antonio Garcia, professor in the Harrington Department of Bioengineering, is using resources from his ASU Foundation Professorship to establish a research center to offer students mentorship in developing their own ideas for improving health technology.
    SBHSE

  • Teaching award will benefit engineering design classes

    May 27, 2009

    David Frakes, assistant professor of electrical engineering and bioengineering, plans to use part of the funding that came with his Centennial Professor of the Year award to purchase materials for students to use to build prototypes of biomedical devices.
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  • ASU, NASA modernizing aeronautical education

    May 13, 2009

    The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has awarded a grant to Valana Wells, associate professor in Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, to lead work on developing what NASA describes as “a revolutionary approach” to teaching aeronautical engineering.
    SEMTE

  • Rocketry club wins big at NASA competition

    May 11, 2009

    The ASU student rocketry club Daedalus Astronautics took a top award at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s 2009 University Student Launch Initiative rocket competition.

  • Effort to boost materials science and engineering under way

    April 28, 2009

    Nathan Newman Nathan Newman, a professor in ASU’s Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering, has been selected as the first to hold the Lamonte H. Lawrence Chair in Solid State Science.
    SEMTE

  • Vivoni studying human impact on Southwest’s ecosystems

    April 23, 2009

    Enrique Vivoni, a new ASU faculty member, is taking on a major role in research expected to help improve environmental stewardship of federal lands in the southwestern United States.
    SSEBE

  • Engineering program leads to ‘life-changing experience’

    April 1, 2009

    Liliana Rincon, a Ph.D. student in bioengineering at Arizona State University, is one of only 12 students from around the world admitted to this year’s prestigious Neurobiology Summer Course at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory.
    SBHSE
  • Professor Barzin Mobasher in the lab.

    Mobasher becomes Fellow of American Concrete Institute

    March 16, 2009

    Barzin Mobasher, a professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering, has been selected as a Fellow of the American Concrete Institute (ACI), one of the most prominent organizations in the concrete technology field
    SSEBE

  • Hydrology and meteorology work wins Enrique Vivoni national science and engineering honor

    March 16, 2009

    Enrique Vivoni has been named a winner of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).
    SSEBE

  • New microscope to advance research, education

    March 9, 2009

    Arizona State University will be home to one of the world’s most advanced electron microscopes, one that will enable researchers to do work essential to making significant advances in nanoscale aspects of solid state science and materials science and engineering.

  • Workforce education for a nuclear energy revival

    February 27, 2009

    Associate professor Keith Holbert will direct ASU’s new nuclear power generation certificate program.
    ECEEFulton Schools
  • Aditi Chattopadhyay in lab

    ASU helps keep nation’s military aircraft healthy

    February 27, 2009

    Aditi Chattopadhyay, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, is overseeing work to develop techniques to better monitor the structural health of aircraft and aerospace systems.
    SEMTE

  • Standing out among geotechnical engineers and educators

    February 26, 2009

    Edward Kavazanjian, associate professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering, has won the 2009 Ralph B. Peck Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
    SSEBE
  • Baoxin Li’s computer-generated, two-dimensional images enable people with visual impairments to identify individuals by their facial contours. Li is an associate professor of computer engineering at Arizona State University. Photo: Rosie Gochnour

    2009 CAREER Award Recipients

    February 26, 2009

    Five Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering faculty members have earned prestigious Career Awards for 2009 from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

  • World’s rapid urbanization challenging engineers

    February 26, 2009

    Ensuring the world’s fast-growing urban regions function efficiently in the future will demand a much more complex public infrastructure than anything yet designed. Engineers are facing challenges of not only dealing with information, communication and public-utility systems that are themselves becoming more complicated, but must develop the technological advances necessary to effectively interconnect and control these systems on larger scales than anything achieved to date.
    SSEBE

  • ASU students put astronautics lessons into action

    February 17, 2009

    Rocket science is being taken to higher altitudes at Arizona State University by Daedalus Astronautics.
    SEMTE

  • Panchanathan to facilitate ASU research opportunities

    February 4, 2009

    Sethuraman “Panch” Panchanathan has been appointed Deputy Vice President for Research and Economic Affairs, a newly created position at ASU.

  • Professor speaks out on sustainability

    January 27, 2009

    Brad Allenby has been named chair of the newly founded Presidential Sustainability Initiative of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the world’s leading professional association for the advancement of technology.
    SSEBE

  • Allenby named Fellow of American Association for Advancement of Science

    December 18, 2008

    Brad Allenby, a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been selected as a Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
    SSEBE

  • New scholarship program honors long-time engineering faculty member

    December 3, 2008

    The Dr. William E. Lewis Excellence in Computer Science and Engineering Scholarship has been established in honor of William “Bill” Lewis, who recently retired after 42 years at Arizona State.

  • Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers at ASU is top chapter of the year

    November 26, 2008

    The Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers at ASU (SHPE de ASU) was recognized by SHPE’s national leadership with both the Regional Outstanding Chapter Award and the National Chapter of the Year Award for 2008.