School or Unit

SEMTE

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

four students at DomesDay competition
January 16, 2026
A team of first-year ASU students won an award for building a dome that failed less destructively at the 2025 ASM International DomesDay competition.
Pooyan Fazli and Hasti Seifi
December 31, 2025
Throughout the year, the Fulton Schools community remained focused on innovation with purpose, responsibility at scale and impact that extends from student success to global communities and beyond.
Jean Andino
November 24, 2025
Fulton Schools Associate Professor Jean Andino develops patent-pending technology to control carbon dioxide levels in vehicles.
Saurav Kumar and Ahadu Assegued
November 10, 2025
Students in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at ASU conduct use-inspired research to address real-world challenges.
Xiaojun Tian
November 7, 2025
In a recent paper published in Cell, the researchers outlined a technique that can stabilize synthetic gene circuits.
Shira Shecter
November 3, 2025
Students in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at ASU conduct use-inspired research to address real-world challenges.
Jiefeng Sun in the lab.

Will robots ever adapt to their environment?

ASU researcher Jiefeng Sun awarded NSF grant to advance AI-powered, shape-morphing robotic systems.
School or unitArtificial intelligenceRobotics
A graphic showing all the CAREER Award winners.

From cyberspace to outer space

Seven Fulton Schools faculty members earn prestigious NSF Awards for trailblazing research.
School or unitArtificial intelligenceHealthSecurity
Arizona State University President Michael Crow speaks at the October ribbon-cutting ceremony for the $270 million Materials-to-Fab Center

ASU and Applied Materials open MTF Center to fuel chip innovation

Fulton Schools plays critical role in $270M Tempe hub that unites academic discovery with industrial-scale tools to fast-track semiconductor innovations.
School or unitMicroelectronics
Sarah Stabenfeldt with student in lab

Investing in cross-disciplinary innovators

The National Institutes of Health is awarding ASU a $2.1M grant to establish a doctoral regenerative medicine education program.
School or unitEducationHealth
Arizona State University students with a scalable water filtration system in Naki, Kenya.

Student engineers join forces with Kenyan communities for clean water

Fulton Schools students are applying their education to help an African country overcome its water challenges.
School or unitGlobal
Konrad Rykaczewski

The real reason we sweat

ASU Assistant Professor Rykaczewski reveals the key to optimizing cooling in extreme heat in a study published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface.
School or unitHealth
Mohamed Houssem Kasbaoui

Accelerating the flow of discovery

ASU’s Mohamed Houssem Kasbaoui is revolutionizing fluid dynamics simulations, cutting computation from months to hours to accelerate innovation.
Jordan Yaron

Uncovering psoriasis’s root cause

ASU researcher Jordan Yaron received a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to uncover the root cause of psoriasis.
School or unitHealth
Assistant Professor Sui Yang, a researcher in the ASU School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, working in a laboratory. Wearing a blue lab coat and protective laser safety glasses, he adjusts an optical setup where glowing green laser light is visible.

ASU researcher unlocks novel way to control light at the nanoscale

Assistant Professor Sui Yang discovers a novel method to alter a materials' optical properties at the nanoscale using 3D printing.
School or unitManufacturing
Yi “Max” Ren and Yang Jiao look at a laptop screen.

ASU researchers to unlock materials design efficiency

Two ASU researchers earn an NSF grant to develop an AI model capable of reasoning beyond information published in literature, which has never been done before.
School or unitMaterials science

Tiny chips, big innovations

ASU and Applied Materials charge into the atomic frontier of semiconductor breakthroughs.
School or unitMicroelectronics
Photo of Kailong Jin holding up a petri dish

Unlocking smart polymer composite potential

Fulton Schools Assistant Professor Kailong Jin has received the 2025 Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Program Award to uncover the fundamental properties of novel polymer composites.

Date range January 2026 – July 2025