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Portrait of Brigitte Lim

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

December 13, 2017

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.
GlobalSolar
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Meet the Fulton Schools’ exceptional graduates of Fall 2017

December 11, 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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ASU junior wins national chemical engineering Minority Scholarship Award

November 11, 2017

Allan Smith Buyinza won the Minority Scholarship Award at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers conference.
Photo of foam fingers. Caption: You can count on the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering to come out in droves for the homecoming game. On Oct. 28, 2017, when the Sun Devils put up a valiant fight against the University of Southern California Trojans, the ASU engineering community’s school spirit — and creativity — was on full display for the Homecoming Block Party and foam “Go Devils” fingers were the giveaway of choice. Photographer: Jessica Hochreiter/ASU

Homecoming 2017 – May the Fork Be With You

October 31, 2017

A time-honored ASU tradition, Homecoming 2017 brought together students, parents and alumni to celebrate their Sun Devil spirit.
Robotics
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

October 27, 2017

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.
EnergyEnvironment
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Andino honored as Educator of the Year by Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers

October 18, 2017

Jean Andino was named the recipient of the Educator of the Year Award in Higher Education for 2017 by the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers.
Photo of Taylor Wiehn sitting and holding the award. Caption: Taylor Wiehn, in inaugural recipient of the Fulton Undergraduate Research Initiative Alumni Award, displays the award at the Spring 2017 FURI Luncheon, April 21, 2017. Photographer: Marco Alexis-Chaira/ASU

Taylor Wiehn wins inaugural FURI Alumni Award

October 16, 2017

Chemical engineering alumnus Taylor Wiehn is the inaugural recipient of the Fulton Undergraduate Research Initiative Alumni Award.
Portrait of Nik Chawla in a lab. caption: Fulton Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Nik Chawla was recently awarded the Acta Materialia Silver Medal for 2018, recognizing his research and leadership in the field of materials science. The award is granted to members of academia, industry or government by one of the top materials science journals, Acta Materialia, published by Elsevier. Chawla will be presented the award at The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society Spring Meeting in March 2018. Photographer: Jessica Hochreiter/ASU

Chawla’s research honored by international materials science society

October 2, 2017

Nik Chawla was recently awarded the Acta Materialia Silver Medal for 2018, recognizing his research and leadership in the field of materials science.
Photo of Nathan Newman standing between a pair of paintings. Caption: Nathan Newman curated the ASU Art Museum exhibit “Material Beauty,” which explores how a scientific eye can illuminate revealing aspects about the creation of artworks. Photographer: Marco-Alexis Chaira/ASU

Eyeing art from a scientific viewpoint

August 23, 2017

Through his expertise in physics and materials science, a Fulton Schools professor illuminates how chemistry, geometry and human neurological traits are reflected in artworks in the ASU Art Museum’s collection.

Meet the class of 2021

August 18, 2017

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.
Portrait of Kyle Squires

Meet Dean Kyle Squires

August 16, 2017

Kyle Squires' engineering journey didn’t start with a grand epiphany, but simply a single step. And it continued in a similar way — one step after another.
Education
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‘Soft’ side of bioengineering poised to make big impacts

July 27, 2017

A group of engineering and science faculty members is striving to expand the scope of ASU's bioengineering research and education — as well as students' career possibilities.
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portrait of Jay Oswald

Engineer seeks to develop harder, better, stronger plastics faster

July 17, 2017

Jay Oswald is working to improve the process of developing plastics as part of a five-year, $500,000 National Science Foundation CAREER Award project.
Photo of the SAE car with a group around the car with one speaking. Caption is Members of the ASU chapter of the Society of Automotive Engineers and their supporters gathered recently for the unveiling of a new race car equipped with aerodynamic features designed to boost the vehicle’s performance. Photographer: Pete Zrioka/ASU"

Revved up: High hopes for hitting new heights

June 14, 2017

An ASU student race car team is determined to put in an impressive showing at a leading international automotive engineering competition.
image of a blackboard covered with math equations with text saying "The order of operations for engaging students in STEM begins with high school math class" over it

Calculating a love of math

June 9, 2017

To keep math and STEM careers a possibility for all students, Jim Middleton and Amanda Jansen are studying what contributes to positive student engagement.
Education
Portrait of Sefaatin Tongay with a caption of "Assistant Professor Sefaattin Tongay earned a 2016 Young Scientist Award from Turkey’s Heroes of Science Association. Photographer: Özlem Mutlu Doğan"

Tongay’s 2D materials research earns award from Turkish science association

June 8, 2017

Assistant Professor Sefaattin Tongay was among six scientists, selected from a pool of 122 applicants, to receive a 2016 Young Scientist Award from the Heroes of Science Association in Turkey.
Global
Photo of three students attaching an auger to a drill with a caption of "The Next Level Devils preparing to test their conical tapered anchor prior to heading to NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory near the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Photographer: Marco-Alexis Chaira/ASU"

Next Level Devils take off on microgravity adventure with NASA’s Micro-g NExT program

June 2, 2017

The Next Level Devils

ASU team to improve next generation air traffic control with $10 million from NASA

May 23, 2017

A five-year project, led by Yongming Liu, focuses on safely integrating the complex data sources that are driving the future of air traffic management systems.

December 2017 – May 2017