A Message from the Associate Dean
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I would like to thank all of you who are participating both virtually and in person in Drexel’s commencement festivities. Our students have reached an important milestone as they move on to their future careers and our support as faculty sends a strong and positive message. If you have not yet, please share your congratulatory messages with our students on the college’s commencement website.
Caroline Schauer, PhD
Associate Dean, Research and Faculty Affairs
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Parks Not Only Safe, but Essential During the Pandemic
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Parks played an important role for people seeking respite from the toll of social isolation during the pandemic. According to new research from Drexel Engineering, they did so without increasing the spread of COVID-19. Read more.
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MXenes to be Used in Artificial Kidney Technology
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Nephria Bio, Inc., a U.S.-based spin-off of the South Korean medical device company EOFlow Co., Ltd., has signed a licensing agreement with Drexel University to use MXenes as a filter in a wearable artificial kidney device it is developing. Read more.
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Graduating Student Spotlight
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Joshua will be graduating with BS degrees in Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering. Read more.
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Natalie will be graduating with a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering. Read more.
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Send Kudos to the Class of 2021
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Join us in celebrating our graduates by sending a congratulatory message on our virtual message wall. Share your congratulations with the Class of 2021 by submitting messages along with a photo, animated GIF, or video to appear on our board. Additionally, as commencement approaches next week, share photos celebrating student achievement on social media using #ForeverDragoneers.
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ASEE Libraries Open Access Database
The ASEE Engineering Libraries Division Scholarly Communication Committee has developed a database of open access policies and practices of a number of engineering and applied science societies. The ELD is hopeful that both engineering librarians and authors considering publishing in an engineering or applied science society journal will find this useful. In keeping with ELD's status as a division of a not-for-profit engineering society, the list is limited to engineering and related applied science societies, and does not include commercial publishers. The document is stored in the division’s OSF space. It can best be viewed by then clicking on the "View this file on Google Drive" link. The first column of the file is a "readme" column with information that offers some explanation of the data presented.
CONGRATULATIONS
Anup Das, PhD, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, has received an Early Career Research Award from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research to develop virtualization for use on future high-performance neuromorphic computing systems that incorporate multiple, disparate underlying architectures. Such virtualization aims at making neuromorphic computers more programmable, secure, efficient, and easy-to-use for the broader scientific community.
Ekaterina Pomerantseva, PhD, professor of materials science and engineering, is the recipient of a three-year NSF grant, “Unveiling relationships between synthesis, structure and nonaqueous ion cycling in chemically preintercalated layered oxides.” This project will provide necessary information for the design of electrode materials to enable next-generation energy storage systems with high energy density and long cycle life.
Four college faculty members are the recipients of funding from Pennsylvania’s Manufacturing PA Innovation Program Manufacturing Fellows Initiative, which looks to fund projects to “support industrial innovation and position the Commonwealth at the forefront of the next wave of manufacturing.” The faculty and projects are as follows:
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Amir Yaghoob Farnam, PhD, assistant professor of civil, architectural and environmental engineering, has received funds to collaborate with AeroAggregates of North America, LLC to study thermodynamically-guided manufacturing a novel lightweight aggregate produced from waste coal bottom ash and waste glass for potential use in Commonwealth infrastructure projects to enhance durability and service life.
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Ahmad Najafi, PhD, (PI), assistant professor of mechanical engineering and mechanics, and Sorin Siegler, PhD, (co-PI), professor of mechanical engineering and mechanics, have received funds to collaborate with Kinos Medical Inc to explore new design and manufacturing methodologies for total ankle replacement implants that can be better tailored to the unique bone structures of individual patients, providing enhanced stability and mobility.
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Caroline Schauer, PhD, Margaret C. Burns Chair in Engineering and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, has received funds to collaborate with Whiff LLC to develop modifications to the existing Touchspinner technology that would allow for the generation of bioactive bandages with improved healing properties made from natural polymers and that require less post-processing than those produced using traditional electospinning.
Two CoE-led faculty teams are the recipients of grants from The Coulter-Drexel Translational Research Partnership:
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Ivan Bartoli, PhD, associate professor of civil, architectural and environmental engineering and LD Betz Professor of Environmental Engineering Charles Haas, PhD, along with Dr. Kurt Sjoblom of Seaflower Consulting Services, have been awarded funds for “Detection of Lead Based Water Pipelines Using Stress Waves.” The team will focus on the development and field testing of a novel sensing system to identify lead-based water pipes using stress acoustic waves that exploit the properties of sound waves (speed, attenuation, etc.) in pipelines of different materials. With this funding, the project team will carefully validate the proposed approach in the field and develop a prototype that could be licensed to major water utilities.
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Sorin Siegler, PhD (PI), professor of mechanical engineering and mechanics, Distinguished University Professor of Chemical Engineering and George B. Francis Professor Giuseppe Palmese, PhD (Co-PI), Dr. Thomas P. Schaer of the Penn Vet Core for Medical Translation (Co-PI), and Ahmad Najafi, PhD (Co-PI), assistant professor of mechanical engineering and mechanics, along with partners at the University of Pennsylvania, Rothman, and Penn State, have been awarded funding for “Orthopedic Surgical Devices with controlled fluid-induced expansion properties for Improved Bone Fixation and Bone Integration.” The project team is developing a family of bone fixation products that will improve the outcome of orthopedic surgery by using a porous co-polymer with controlled fluid-induced expansion properties as part of the bone-fixation mechanism. Such products are expected to improve surgical outcomes by increasing fixation strength to bone, preventing bone resorption, and promoting osteointegration.
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Charles Haas, PhD, LD Betz Professor of Environmental Engineering, was featured in a May 28 Philadelphia Inquirer story that asked a variety of experts to share their thoughts and experiences as the region begins to reopen and masking and distancing guidance is changing.
Heart imaging technology, called Electrast, developed by Steven Wrenn, PhD, professor of chemical engineering, and collaborators from the College of Engineering and College of Medicine, was featured in a May 26 Philadelphia Business Journal story after the company that licensed it received new funding to continue commercializing it.
Shannon Capps, PhD, assistant professor of civil, architectural and environmental engineering, was quoted in a May 24 Philadelphia Inquirer story about a new air quality survey released by the Philadelphia Department of Public Health.
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Celebration of Engineering Design (Senior Design Presentations)
CoE Celebration of Excellence
Global Engagement Scholar Senior Portfolio Presentations
Mechanical Engineering And Mechanics Celebration
Materials Science And Engineering Celebration
Engineering Leadership And Society Celebration
College of Engineering Commencement Ceremony
Electrical And Computer Engineering Celebration
Civil, Architectural And Environmental Engineering Celebration
Chemical And Biological Engineering Celebration
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Internal Competitions
Rolling Deadline
NSF
Full Proposal Deadline: June 14, 2021
Full Proposal Deadline: July 13, 2021
Full Proposal Deadline: July 12, 2021
Full Proposal Deadline: July 21, 2021
Full Proposal Deadline: July 28, 2021]
Full Proposal Deadline: July 29, 2021
Full Proposal Deadline: August 3, 2021
See DCL for more information about how to request funding
See DCL for more information about how to request funding
Other Federal Agencies
Pre-application (required) Deadline: June 15, 2021
Full Proposal Deadline: June 18, 2021
Full Proposal Deadline: July 12, 2021
Other Sponsors
Full Proposal Deadline: June 30, 2021
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