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large group of attendees at US-ASEAN Science, Technology, and Innovation Cooperation conference

Seeding innovation in Southeast Asia

The U.S.-ASEAN Science, Technology, and Innovation Cooperation Program held its 2023 conference to boost Southeast Asia’s technological development.
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ASU entrepreneurs benefit Balkan businesses

A team from ASU with extensive entrepreneurial experience is helping startups in the Balkans expand their innovative offerings to the U.S. market.
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Students from Engineers Without Borders pose for a photo in the woods, where they conducted a prototyping session of a device they built

Engineering a better world

Students in ASU’s Engineers Without Borders chapter help underprivileged communities around the world with their engineering skills.
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A graphic of locks superimposed on top of solar panels and computer chip designs

ASU researchers collaborate internationally to secure power grid

ASU electrical engineering researcher Yang Weng leads a partnership between the U.S. and Israel to bolster cybersecurity for both nations’ energy grids.
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Do Thi Lan Dai (pictured at center) is the first female chair of the University Council at Lac Hong University.

ASU supports women in Vietnam to become academic leaders

Opportunities facilitated by ASU have helped women in Vietnam gain the skills they needed to climb the ranks of STEM higher education in their country.
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The United States Agency for International Development Vietnam Mission Director Ann Marie Yastishock (second from right) and Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City, or IUH, leadership tour the university’s smart factory laboratory and simulation facilities in 2021.

ASU prepares Vietnamese university for global readiness

A Vietnamese university earned ABET accreditation for six programs after extensive training facilitated by the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at ASU.
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The Mekong-U.S. Partnership Young Scientist Program participants pose in an agricultural field in Vietnam.

ASU produces a bumper crop of Southeast Asian entrepreneurs

Scientists from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam learned the skills to be agricultural technology and business entrepreneurs in a program implemented by ASU.
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A group photo of ASU EPICS team Project Koyash.

EPICS teams earn funding from spring pitch competition

Funded student projects address clean air, sustainable water use for agriculture, smart monitoring for aquaculture and Navajo community health and economics.
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a remote village with solar panels

Power to the people

ASU engineering experts are leading major new collaborations to expand the provision of affordable, reliable, clean energy in the developing world.
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Shakira Hobbs (left) and Evvan Morton (right) with their anaerobic digester prototype in Sittee River, Belize

Fulton Schools alum launches sustainability nonprofit

BioGals empowers women of color from around the world to engineer dynamic food waste solutions for sustainable development.
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image of a hallway at TEDI London

ASU helps launch a new project-based engineering program in London

TEDI-London makes engineering education more inviting, more inclusive and better able to generate more globally relevant solutions.
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A group of people poses on an airplane while doing the ASU pitchfork hand sign.

Valley aviation community brings Afghan refugees to ASU

When a group of Afghan refugees had no way to get to Arizona to restart their education, local aviation companies rallied to make a miracle flight possible.
A graphic depicts participants in the 2021 Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative Summit, or YSEALI Summit, holding flags from their countries.

Full STEAM ahead

ASU partnered with the U.S. Department of State and U.S. Mission to Vietnam to prepare the next leaders of education and workforce innovation in Southeast Asia.
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Above: (From left to right) Darshan Karwat, assistant professor in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering and the School for the Future of Innovation in Society; Madison Macias, urban and environmental planning master’s student in ASU’s School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning; Eddie Schmitt, post-doctoral fellow in SFIS; Jorge Morales Guerrero and Mokshda Kaul, sustainable energy doctoral students in ASU’s School of Sustainability; and Eric Stribling, innovation in global development doctoral student in SFIS. Not pictured: David Oonk, post-doctoral fellow in SFIS. Photographer: Erika Gronek/ASU

Evolving engineering for a better world

Darshan Karwat merged his engineering background with his concerns for social and environmental justice which led to the development of his own research niche.
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Vuong Thi Ngoc Tuyet working in a labr

1st-gen Vietnamese student wants to prove women are an engineering asset

Fulton Schools global outreach and community service programs help Vietnamese students tackle real-world engineering problems and promote social equality.
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A screenshot of a Zoom meeting with Fulton Schools engineering students in the Grand Challenges Scholars Program

14 ASU Grand Challenges Scholars ready to strive for real-world impact

Dedication and passion characterize the newest graduates of a Fulton Schools program designed to prepare students to tackle global engineering challenges.
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Above: Rapidly developing information technologies are flooding the airwaves with data and raising concerns about electromagnetic spectrum access, allocation and management. Image courtesy of Shutterstock

SpectraFlex center to define the future of wireless

ASU engineering leads a multi-university proposal to establish a national center for electromagnetic spectrum research and innovation.
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rendering of new Thunderbird school facility

New ASU program enriches engineering with global business studies

The Polytechnic School and Thunderbird School of Global Management have partnered to launch the 4+1 Master of Global Management program.
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Date range September 2023 – April 2021