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image of a group of graduates with text that says "Graduates who excel"

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.
ASU Professor Ying-Cheng Lai human mobility research

New human mobility prediction model offers scalability, requires less data

School or unitGlobal
Photo of a large group of people standing. caption: The 2017 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering symposium was hosted by the National Academy of Engineering. 100 young engineers from varied backgrounds gathered to share their expertise and perspectives to their colleagues from around the country to help develop collaboration across engineering disciplines. Photograph courtesy of the National Academy of Engineering

Bertoni working at the frontier of solar energy engineering

Mariana Bertoni was one of a select group of 100 young engineers that met in Hartford, Connecticut for the 2017 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering hosted by the National Academy of Engineering.
School or unitEnergySolar
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program logo

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

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.
School or unitEducationEnergyHealth
portrait of Ed Williams. Caption: Edward J. William Jr, (above) graduated from the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, and has returned to ASU as the technical advisor to USPCAS-E in Islamabad, Pakistan. Photographer: Arsal Latif/ASU

USPCAS-E draws Fulton Schools grad back to ASU, makes global impact

Electrical engineering alumnus Edward J. William Jr. returns to the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering to help Pakistan address its energy crisis with USPCAS-E.
School or unitEnergyGlobal
Photo of Ron Roedel teaching in front of a classroom. Caption: There were “so many interesting things happening at ASU” in the solar energy field that Ron Roedel couldn’t resist accepting offers to get involved after his retirement. He’s been teaching classes the past few years in the Solar Energy Engineering and Commercialization graduate program and recently took on the job as its director. Photographer: Marco-Alexis Chaira/ASU

Comeback story: Roedel’s return after retirement has boosted solar energy engineering education

Solar energy expertise in the Fulton Schools’ expanded when an accomplished long-time professor was lured back into the classroom — and recently into a leadership role.
School or unitEnergySolarSustainability
portrait of Jae-Son Seo

ASU engineer works to develop a portable brain-like computer

Jae-sun Seo is attempting to shatter the computing, energy and size limitations of state-of-the-art learning algorithms to fit on small footprint devices with the help of custom-designed hardware.
Photo of two men standing next to one another with one of them holding a certificate. Caption: Abdul Kashif Janjua, exchange scholar from the U.S.-Pakistan Centers for Advanced Energy, known as USPCAS-Ewith his certificate of completion from the Power System’s Lab in fall 2016. Photo courtesy of Abdul Kashif Janjua

USPCAS-E scholar collaborates on solar research, benefits Arizona and Pakistan

Abdul Kashif Janjua, a fall 2016 exchange scholar from the U.S.-Pakistan Centers for Advanced Studies in Energy at ASU, collaborated on a research paper under the tutelage of Professor George Karady which was presented at the IEEE Power Engineering Society’s general meeting in Chicago in July.
School or unitEnergySolar

Meet the class of 2021

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.
Photo of two men standing shoulder to shoulder with their arms crossed. Caption: Professors Dale S. Rogers and Bertan Bakkaloglu were named ON Semiconductor Professors of Business and Engineering, confirming their roles as leaders in their respective fields of supply chain management and electrical engineering.

Leading Phoenix manufacturer ON Semiconductor invests in business, engineering with named ASU professorships

Leading semiconductor-based solutions supplier and long-time ASU industry partner ON Semiconductor created two endowed professorships and committed $2 million to be split between the the W. P. Carey School of Business and the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering.
Photo of Yuji Zhao holding up a white disc

New semiconductor material shows promise for more efficient power electronics

Yuji Zhao is working to address technological gaps in gallium nitride doping, a critical technical step to achieve high performance GaN power devices.
School or unitEnergy
Portrait of Umit Ogras

Flexible hybrid electronics bend the rules of computing architectures

Umit Ogras is developing an innovative methodology and tools to optimize the design of flexible hybrid electronics — architectures that combine flexible elements and rigid silicon to overcome the performance limitations of purely flexible electronics.
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

The team's innovative design ideas earned them second place in the 2017 AIChE Rocky Mountain Regional Conference competition in March.
School or unitEnergy
Photo of Jennifer Blain Christen holding a device in her hand with a caption of "Associate Professor of electrical engineering Jennifer Blain Christen holds an early prototype of a point-of-care diagnostic tool, which samples biomarkers in sweat to provide an immediate look into a patient's health. Photographer: Pete Zrioka/ASU"

ASU engineer working to develop disposable point-of-care sensor

Jennifer Blain Christen's enthusiasm to explore new and different applications of electrical engineering earned her the funding to leverage her engineering expertise to create an innovative new diagnostic tool.
School or unitHealth
Photo of a microfluidic device with E. coli cells with a caption of "The technology used in Xiao Wang’s Systems and Synthetic Biology Lab can capture images of cellular fluorescence in microfluidic devices. The images are used to illustrate in real time how engineered E. coli cells transition from one state or function to another. Photographer: Jessica Hochreiter/ASU"

Xiao Wang cell fate research advances

Biomedical engineering research that is increasing knowledge about the mechanisms of cell differentiation could pave the way to new medical treatments and therapies.
School or unitHealth

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

Preston Webster's contributions to a slew of publications and hard work earned him the coveted Palais award for graduating electrical engineering doctoral students.
A photo of a group of students in caps and gowns with overylaying text "Recognizing Exceptional Graduates"

Meet Spring 2017’s Outstanding Undergraduates and IMPACT Award recipients

As the Fulton Schools prepares to send newly graduated engineers, innovators and creators out into the world, we take time to highlight some truly exception graduates of the Class of 2017.
Photo of two men standing on each side of a large golden trophy with a caption of "Left to right, Saiman Shetty and Patrick Patel, Hygiea founders stand with the Mayor's Cup in Los Angeles, California. Since starting the company last year, Hygiea has made waves in the entrepreneurial world, entering numerous startup competitions and raising more than $40,000 in funding. This week, they head to the University of California, Berkeley, for LAUNCH. Photo courtesy of Saiman Shetty."

ASU-led tech startup Hygiea heads to Berkeley entrepreneurship competition

Last year, a group of students launched a small startup named Hygiea with a big idea: to make waste management less wasteful.
School or unitEntrepreneurship

Date range December 2017 – April 2017