The University of Maryland dedicated the E.A. Fernandez IDEA (Innovate, Design and Engineer for America) Factory, a $67 million building designed to foster technology innovations and advances through collaboration across engineering, the arts, business, and science. The A. James Clark School of Engineering’s new 60,000-square-foot facility is the only building at UMD funded entirely by private philanthropy.
A sensor made from a futuristic quantum material that can monitor food freshness won the top prize in the University of Maryland’s annual Invention of the Year competition. Along with other category winners, it was announced at Innovate Maryland, a yearly celebration of UMD’s growing penchant for turning intriguing bench science into creative and exciting real-world products.
The Engineering for US All (e4usa) team invites ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition attendees to participate in a technical session on the implementation status of this national program and ways to join the effort. Led by project PI Darryll J. Pines, the session takes place Monday, June 27 at 11:30 AM in room 101B of the Minneapolis Convention Center.
Maryland Engineering faculty members Ron Walsworth, Mohammad Hafezi, and Shihab Shammaad are collaborators on three projects selected by the Department of Defense (DoD) for highly competitive 2022 Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) awards. The aim of the MURI program is to leverage collective insight from multiple disciplines in order to facilitate the growth of newly emerging technologies.
Watch University of Maryland students, representing the Leatherbacks Combat Robotics Team, chat with Steve Rudin at WJLA-TV to tease Maryland Day 2022 on April 30. The student club team designs, builds, and fights their own robots.