February 11, 2021
A Message from the Dean
It is with surpassing pride that I share the news that Charles Haas, PhD, LD Betz Professor of Environmental Engineering, has been elected as a new member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Election to the NAE is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer and is awarded to those who have made outstanding contributions to the research, practice, or education of engineering.

As we all know, Chuck has been an exceptional educator and a mentor to faculty across the college. He has also been one of the world’s leading thinkers in the fields of water treatment, risk assessment, bioterrorism, environmental modeling and statistics, microbiology, and environmental health. Chuck will be formally inducted during the NAE's annual meeting on Oct. 3, 2021. Please join me in congratulating him on this estimable honor.

Sharon L. Walker, PhD
Dean 
Winter Term Brings Two New Faculty Members
Megan Creighton, PhD and Yong-Jie Hu, PhD, joined the College of Engineering faculty at the beginning of the winter term. Read more.
Senior Design Launch: Design Solutions for Eaton Aerospace
Three mechanical engineering majors are working with Eaton Aerospace, LLC,, to solve one of their biggest manufacturing problems. Read more.
Announcements
Longsview Fellows Program - Applications Due 2/15

The Longsview Fellows Program will reward a minimum of four research-active tenure-track, tenured faculty members who demonstrate a commitment to the pillars identified in the Drexel University’s College of Engineering Strategic Plan. As of 2020, those pillars are renewable energy and power; health, wellness, and medicine; smart cities: physical cyber infrastructure; and resource stewardship and sustainability. In accordance with the college’s strategic plan, this program is focused on fostering interdisciplinary collaboration at the intersections of Drexel researchers’ existing expertise. Funds will be used to promote research projects that will lead to high quality scholarship (i.e., publications), technology commercialization, submissions for extramural support, and ultimately awards from the NIH, DOD, NSF, and other governmental agencies and foundations. See full details and eligibility information here.

Wednesdays@Noon, A New Webinar Series from the Drexel Libraries

The Drexel Libraries is pleased to announce Wednesdays@Noon, a new, regularly scheduled series of 30-minute webinars for Drexel researchers, faculty, staff and students. Each Wednesday, Libraries staff will explore a different tool, resource or service provided by the Libraries to support Drexel Dragons in their research and coursework. Visit their website to see a list of upcoming webinars.

ExCITe Center STEAM Education Workshop

The ExCITe Center’s 7th Annual STEAM Education Workshop — We Gon’ Be Alright, But That Ain’t Alright: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom — will be held virtually on February 15. This year’s program features a keynote by renowned author and researcher, Dr. Bettina Love (University of Georgia), co-founder of the Abolitionist Teaching Network, addressing an audience of those in Pre-K-12 as well as higher education. Dr. Love’s talk will discuss the struggles and the possibilities of committing ourselves to an abolitionist goal of educational freedom, as opposed to reform, and moving beyond what she calls the educational survival complex. This program, co-sponsored by the College of Engineering, will also include brief presentations and a panel discussion with Drexel faculty. Sign up here for the free webinar.


CONGRATULATIONS

Distinguished University and Charles T. and Ruth M. Bach Professor Yury Gogotsi (MSE) is the recipient of a four-year NSF grant from the Division of Materials Research, “Synthesis and Optoelectronic Properties of Solid Solution MXenes.” This proposal will look to establish direct experimental relationships between chemical compositions of solid solution MXenes and their resulting properties.

Gogotsi is also the coordinator of a Marie Curie Global Individual Fellowship grant, which will fund a post-doc from the University of Padua, Dr. Laura Fusco, to work in his lab.
Upcoming Seminars and Workshops
Short Reading Discussion Series: Developing Antiracist Pedagogies
Discussing "Rewarding Language: Language Ideology and Prescriptive Grammar" by Rusty Barrett and "The Problem of Linguistic Double Consciousness" by Vershawn Ashanti Young
February 16, 2:30 p.m. or February 17, 9 a.m. | Register

MXENE 2021 Course
Learn how to make and characterize MXenes from Professor Yury Gogotsi and his team
February 22-26, 10 a.m. daily | Register
Upcoming Events
Funding Opportunities
Internal Competitions

Internal Competition Deadline: February 26, 2021

Internal Competition Deadline: February 26, 2021

Internal Competition Deadline: February 26, 2021

Internal Competition Deadline: February 26, 2021

Internal Competition Deadline: February 26, 2021

Internal Competition Deadline: March 1, 2021


NSF

Full Proposal Deadline: February 23, 2021

Full Proposal Deadline: February 24, 2021

Full Proposal Deadline: February 28, 2021

Full Proposal Deadline: March 1, 2021

Letter of Intent (required) Deadline: March 1, 2021

Full Proposal Deadline: March 2, 2021

Full Proposal Deadline: March 5, 2021

Full Proposal Deadline: March 7, 2021

Planning Grant Preliminary Proposal Deadline: March 10, 2021

Preliminary Proposal (required) Deadline: March 10, 2021

Full Proposal Deadline: March 23, 2021

Full Proposal Deadline: April 19, 2021

Full Proposal Deadline: May 3, 2021

See DCL for more information about how to request funding

See DCL for more information about how to request funding

See DCL for more information about how to request funding

See DCL for more information about how to request funding

Other Federal Agencies

Concept Paper (required) accepted on a rolling basis until: April 15, 2021